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    He, his, multiple characters, how to avoid confusion?

    Thanks, I do have a name for him but he only gets named after the first few paragraphs, reason being that he starts off not knowing who he is and needs someone else to call him by name. I felt that naming him immediately took some of that away from the reader...
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    He, his, multiple characters, how to avoid confusion?

    Hi there I'm currently writing my first novel and have a pretty good idea of how I want the story to go. For now though I am finding articulating what I want hard, I think part of the problem is that I am a very visual person and the ideas in my head sometimes don't come out well on paper. I...
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    Is it better to be a good writer or a great writer?

    Something I've been pondering over the last few days is whether being a great writer can actually make a book less popular. My reasons for this thinking are thus; I'm far from a great writer and in the past have not read a lot either. I'm pretty average I think in terms of vocabulary and...
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    Do these things bother others as much as they do me?

    My opinion on this is that there is no problem with it as long as it's not confusing for the reader. And I can think of a couple of books that I've read where I got a bit lost when the author did this, as about 5 characters were introduced in the first chapter, then the second chapter suddenly...
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    Sounding cliché

    Thanks a lot for the advice guys, I guess I'm not the only one that has thought about this before. I think I'll take your advice and just forget about it. I suppose if it does end up coming across cliché then my draft readers will pick up on it and I can rework it. I'll put my focus on...
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    Hobbit lives up to expectations

    I really liked it, definitely got a different feel to Lord of the Rings. One thing I didn't like was using the eagles again, maybe its in the book but I mean come on, if you're going to use eagles, use them at the beginning to get to the mountain!?!
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    Storytelling: 22 Rules from Pixar

    Excellent resource and some great tips. Think I'll do one of those exercises myself
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    The parents were always there....

    I suppose the thing with that is that it then becomes quite a big element of the story. The MC would want to know who his parents were and after that, and you'd need a good reason why they had to keep their identity secret from the MC instead of just secretly meeting him from time to time.
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    What are your storytelling pet peeves?

    I was toying with the idea of a prophet in my novel, but am still struggling with how to incorporate it. I essentially want the prophet to tell the main character to that he should go out and try to change the world, and he will, but not in such an explicit way. Acting more as a guide than a...
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    Sounding cliché

    Hi all I am currently writing my first novel and have very little experience. One thing I'm finding is that I think I have a good idea for stories etc, but when I explain it to someone else to see if they think it sounds good, I cant help but think to myself that it sounds a bit cliché...
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