Recent content by M. Popov

I think that's an interesting question. Since the majority of the chapter is going to be presented through the male lead's perspective, a sudden perspective shift might take the reader out. However, I believe a good way to get the thoughts and feelings of the female lead is if the male lead...

You've awakened my inner Digital Account Executive! (Fancy title companies use for marketing and advertising folk) You're going to need some interesting creatives in order to stand a chance, so I recommend investing in a decent camera and purchasing a Canva membership. I use Canva to create...

I had to attend a NFT convention this year, work reasons. The explanation that was given for the current market, by the speakers, is that there was an initial craze, which died down once the reality set in, and the market is speculated to stabilize. However, the convention did not cover stories...

If you're planning on selling a novel I would avoid using AI art until there's a clear consensus. Currently AI art and copyright is a big grey area in my opinion. However if it's something personal/non-commercial it should be fine. From what I gathered a huge part of using AI for art is about...

I'm afraid my answer to the thread is rather simple for now. Men and women in my first novel in the works, nicknamed Eternity, have access to equal opportunities, for the most part. The only exception being the military portions of the novel which involve universally male characters but that's...

Fodder Gnashgabs (old english word for people who love to complain. Fitting if the orcs have a pretty low opinion of human civilization) Spear-bait Softies Skin waste.

I want to thank you all for giving your input. Some of the complications in my novel did arise from secondary characters, such as the main female character's ex lover. Some of the characters created have been made for purely the sake of conflict, usually filling a secondary or tertiary role...

I kept getting sidetracked. Well not anymore! I wanted to create a thread where people discuss the main characters of their works and hey they approached them. We all have different ideas as to what constitutes a good main character, so I'm curious to get some opinions. When making my...

What I have right now is the material I mentioned already. Planning wise. Currently the file is 171 pages and a total of 41,869 words. I do start every chapter with a location, time and date mark to help myself. I do have arts which will be added, and it'll help me not goof the lore. Knowing...

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I understand that. My response was related to what you said earlier about the main character's parents. The point I am trying to come across is, you need to treat subject matter like trauma seriously, otherwise you run the chance of offending your audience.

Understood. In the end there is only one way to know if I'm comfortable.

The excel sheet says it is: (Based on Larry Brooks' Story Engineering, with elements from Blake Snyder's Save the Cat and Alexandra Sokoloff's Writing Love: Screenwriting Tricks for Authors II)

So I mentioned earlier: I plan on following the advice I started with and making a spreadsheet to keep track of the novel's structure And this is it. I downloaded a template online and I'm modifying it a little.

And if you're going to feature serious topics in your novel, you NEED to treat them with respect.