I like to use the end of chapters as a stopping point, and because I personally have problems reading more than 30 or so pages in one sitting, I...
I think what you’re saying is like what I mentioned, it is not a literal child just merely looks like one. And like others have said, the idea is...
Uhh... do you mean ‘looks like’ he’s 12-15 mean that there some kind of magical element that has made him just merely appear that age? Or do you...
I actually think the opposite unless we’re talking tongue-twisters. Alliteration in moderate amounts rolls off the tongue well. In slip knox’s...
If I want to do a straight high fantasy, I feel very inclined to write the story in a typical european medival age a la Lord of the Rings. Its...
Any crime that is unsolved is a mystery, so I don’t think it works. You need a word describe the unusual sci-fi aspect.
I haven’t had anyone tell me to use other words than said since high school, and only then it was teachers who just wanted to encourage a high...
I think that unless you’re specifically writing a comedy I’m not sure going out of your way to tell jokes is the right thing to do (unless of...
I agree with everything Devora said. To me, all I see are basic premises, and so what I usually do after coming up with one of those are to start...
I don’t typically like romantic side plots. They often come off as seperate from the story and feel like filler. My thought processes during these...
Anyone ever see the movie Primer? Some very, very hard to grasp time travel elements in that movie. And that was sort of the movie’s point, it’s...
I do a form of this. As I write, I always imagine it as scenes in a movie, so when things get really big or fantastic I visualize it like a movie...