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This will be fun by EB Asher Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson The Divine comedy [trans. John Ciardi] The left hand path of darkness by Ursula k Le Guin The bell jar by Sylvia Plath The bards blade by Brian d Anderson

Well one method is to find passages in novels that you like that you feel make a good example for these transitions you speak of and try to emulate that. Use that as a form of practice.

I feel this statement is a bit erroneous because it all depends on how you want to tell the story. Sometimes short stories are quite difficult because you don't have a lot of words per page to delve deep into the story and you have to condense an entire plot into, possibly, just a few pages...

When it comes to short stories, it all depends on the scope of your idea. Chapters in a novel are really just a compilation of short stories put together in a story cycle. You're more or less asking yourself "What events do i need to happen in these pages" and then working the characters'...

I've seen this article and I'm not looking for a history of gem values I'm looking for basically something like a spreadsheet of the prices gems would have back in the 1700s

My web searching has come up dry and I'm not sure where to start looking cuz I need to conceptualize a necklace for a story I'm writing but I need to be realistic as to what gems would be put on a specific kind of necklace. The base metal I'm thinking of using is pewter but it will be a...

I already know toxic doesn't mean disease-carrying.

I already saw the article and it didn't answer my questions, hence why I figured somebody here might have already researched this.

I can't find a reliable source that actually says whether or not this is a thing so I figure if somebody knows I'd ask here. I have a scene where a character is examining a glass mug he's using and he notes that it is not of great quality and is showing signs of glass disease. Would it be...

I've been coming to grips with the fact that my coping skills for my attention deficit issues are no longer effective and its resulted in my drafts being either not worked on or unfinished and its really frustrating me. I just want to be able to sit down and write for more than a few minutes at...

For me it's setting description. I have difficulties imagining places in vivid detail. In my head, rooms are a blur.

Admittingly, my apprehension is probably creating a contradiction in thought. I want to do it but i worry it will mess up the writing process i've been trying to develop.

The idea, at least they way I'm seeing right now, is that i already have the story pretty much plotted out. I know how it starts and ends, and everything practically in-between. I don't think i can say i'm a pantser writer since i do think about these stories to a large extent before i begin...

I've been working on-and-off on a fantasy/adventure novella for the better part of a year now (though i would prefer more on than off but life gets in the way sometimes). During the writing process I've learned a lot of things to improve my writing. I also discovered in recent years I'm very...

I've come to a possible conclusion that one of the major reasons i'm struggling with writing is that i don't have the optimal enviroment to write in. I live in a place where i don't have much privacy/solitude and i can't make my own room for writing. I have no space for a desk, and all i have is...