Butler: Life Enhancement Technician. Sous-Chef
A pretty self-explanatory post, this one... The idea is simple: you must use the very extent of your abilities as a wordsmith to describe the...
I contribute to a recently-started writer's blog set up between a few friends, and today I decided to write about NaNoWriMo for those who don't...
Eternal
In the same way that crafted speech is generally very different from spontaneous speech, I wouldn't put too much effort into make the dialect read...
Like everyone else, there are a few points that I would argue with my critic - particularly regarding characters. But I would also argue with the...
Activity over passivity. I think that's probably the main thing. I would never love a character who does nothing. I would never love a character...
I would always look through the pages of a book before deeming it worthy of reading. I'd never go by the cover. But the cover is important! It...
Experience is the thing that always gets me through the dialogue process. Whether that is experience through reading other writers' creation of...
It's a hill you have to climb. It begins steep, but levels out the higher you reach. You need to just write it, my friend! According to many,...
I write because every word read is experience for every reader, and every word written is experience for every writer. People need stories, and we...
This is all just my opinion, but with such a significant moment in the story, I think you should take a step back and forget all the logistics of...
Create them and develop them exactly as you want, except don't refer to them as Vampires, and name the book: "Not About Vampires" ;) In all...
It seems the issue is not with descent into madness per se, but the whole concept of gradient. If you want an easy-access novel that portrays this...
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