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Giving a pictorial account of the Norman conquest of Anglo-Saxon England culminating in the Battle of Hastings in 1066, the tapestry shows the majority of Norman men-at-arms as wearing a particular type of conical helmet with a face protection in the shape of a nasal bar. [copied from...

In quaerere de lumine (Sa paghahanap ng ilaw) Quest ad lucem Just a quick & dirty suggestion What I usually am looking for is a title with a double meaning ...

Any references to cases, whether they are real or made up, brings the reader in rational modus. I wouldn't do that - it knocks the reader out of the fictional dream. If you want to demonstrate your MC is knowledgeable, do it once for that purpose. HTH.

If you crawl into the skin of your viewpoint character and show its behaviour, speech, traits, manners etc then the reader will assume the thoughts are the character's, not yours. The whole idea is based on the fictional dream: once the author is visible you're in the danger zone of losing your...

The world of insects contains scary creatures - well, if you increase them by thousand-fold that is :) Lucanus cervus for instance.

I think in dialogue it's comparable to using dialect. Don't overdo it, is the general advice, as it is even difficult to read by people from the region, because there is no agreed spelling. Maybe use a word here and there to convey the flavour. Or use daily stuff that was common thousand years...

For people who are interested in drawing. my wisdom is taken from Betty Edwards in her book Drawing on the right side of the brain. I believe a pdf of the book can be found on the web. There are also YouTube clips available.

Interesting angle, Devor. I know the creative part of the brain is the right side, and the rational part of iot is mainly the left side. There is a very interesting experiment if you try to draw a face e.g. from a photograph. It is done much easier if the picture is put upside down. The reason...

Oftentimes, beginning writers overwrite, putting too much details, exposition and explanations in their projects. The other side of the spectrum is underwriting: not enough detail let the reader float in space. Overwriting is usually easy to spot. Underwriting is usually not so easy in that to...

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Sorry to come so late to the party. I read this thread and it's full of opinions. Please allow me to add my take on the matter, and the reasoning behind. The first thing to realize is that ANY speech tag is the writer sticking his/her nose into the story. It's a potential fictional-dream...

I think you misread what I wrote. My salt example was a tongue-in-cheek reply. If something is not scarce or of no value, there is no reason to use it as a trade "money". Suppose you have a world in which sand is scarce. Nevertheless it's of high demand because you cvan convert it into glass or...

That's brilliant, CoJ. Just what the doctor ordered, Thanks!

It also has to do with relevant details, and those are by default linked to the purpose of your scene. However, if you zoom out and describe it is essentially leave Deep POV and create an omniscient narrator, which is akin to the author breaking in. Of course it's not forbidden to do that, but...

Sometimes that could be a dilemma, but I think usually relatively easy to solve. Why is this Deep POV so important? Because you want the reader in the head of the MC. You want the reader to participate in the scene, not just as an outside spectator. So, why should the reader care if the MC...