How much time lapses between your chapters? Do they pick up the next day? The next hour? The next minute? The next month? I know there is no right...
I am interested in writing a script for radio. I am interested in the best way to successfully do time transitions. The narrator is narrating and...
I have always been a voracious reader. When I read a book, I always finish it within 48 hours (or 24 hours when on vacation). Since I am not a...
I've just come across a handy little stat in Microsoft Word which shows you the total editing time for your document. In case you're writing in MS...
Hi everyone, The story I’m writing at the minute is centered around a big event - I won’t go into too much detail here but for the purposes of...
How important is it to mention in a story? I just started reading Dark Tower: The Gunslinger and I was kind of wondering when and where this all...
Hi everyone! I'm J.A.. I wanted to get in touch with people I can relate to and discover new stories (about you and/or your work). Some of the...
In my fantasy, I want to jump to important periods in my characters lives and not follow them every step of the way all the time. For example,...
"When I finally caught up with Abraham Trahearne, he was drinking beer with an alcoholic bulldog named Fireball Roberts in a ramshackle joint just...
So, I am writing a historical novel which flips between modern day and past era. The modern day is written in first person and I find it easier to...
So I am currently working on some short stories that are not the usual single location stories and are fairly lengthy but not novellas. Does...
You know what makes me cry? When its cool outside, but no wind to carry the cool wind indoors. Who else is melting? I have had two storms pass me...
In time skipping I mean the tool writer's use to skip to say for example it being Saturday and the writer wants to move story to Monday where...
Firstly, thanks so much for the support on the other thread! I'm confused about this 8 agents at a time thing - I agree that if you send to 8 you...
Greetings! Although I should have found this website before almost finishing my novel, I believe it's not too late yet. My name is Marius and I...
Hi all, I've been writing my novel for some time now, and there is one thing that has been bothering me for a while. I want to start in 2010...
Ok, so, I have this entire book series planned out, and I've written a rough outline for it. There is an issue in a certain area of the plot,...
Hello everyone. So I am still a very new member, I did my 2 weeks and 20 posts and 2 critiques but then I was without internet for 2-3 weeks,...
I'm brainstorming ideas for my next story, and I started thinking about a story that would be told completely in "real time" without skips. I can...
So the one thing that bothers me about every fantasy novel I've ever been been prevailed upon to read is the fact that nary a single character is...
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