First of all, I will say this: Many a good story has been dissected for the purposes of production, and thus has been attenuated.
If your story ideas work as one, it makes more sense to keep them as one tale. It makes it tighter, and giving the stories the backdrop of your whole world will make...
Your best answer is to start studying some Empires!
The British Empire is probably one of the best examples of Imperial Dynastic Rule, since the Queen is still head of state of many of the Commonwealth countries. Their Empire was incredibly successful and only started its decline in the 1900s...
There's no right or wrong way to write a story, and one person's preference, heck, even a hundred people or a thousand people's preference for a certain type of story telling shouldn't dictate to you a certain method.
With regards to writing about a culture that is not your own, all I will say is this. Do not let your own culture bias your perception of the culture about which you are writing. For instance, in the west we grow up with this idea that the strong central figure is the white, cisgender...
Reminds me of the books of Victorian and early 20th century writers. They were often written in a format that included a narrator indulging his desire to express an opinion of the characters and scenarios involved.
Hmm. I don't really think you can compare a potentially volatile forum conversation to a carefully scripted novel. Besides, I never said I am against adding beats (which this topic isn't even supposed to be about) and that section of dialogue I quoted isn't indicative of all my dialogue, so I...
Yes, it's all dependent on situation. A character's movements during such an exchange should provide something meaningful to the plot or to their development. The knife situation is a good example. Like anything, it should be used sparingly to good effect, to give more impact. Anyway, I think we...
The problem I have with this is that, for me at least, it interrupts the flow of dialogue. It is a relatively long conversation, and pretty soon you would run out of things to say, and constantly putting in things like "he flicked his hair back" and "his mouth fell open" and "he performed some...
But I am not a fanfic writer... and it would be preferable/polite not to assume that I am.. :rolleyes:
I have thought about the "giving all characters different ways of speaking" idea, but I think perhaps it would contrast too sharply; that is to say, I would assume most people would speak in a...
Conflict is fine, and should be encouraged as it allows us to strengthen our convictions and question our beliefs, but the key is to treat people with respect.