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I noticed most beta readers weren't keen on the main character I was creating and I realized that was because they were always reacting to a situation and not being proactive enough which is something I've tried to work on in this new novel. But I wanted to be sure this character was proactive...

I'm sorry but to me love triangles NEVER make sense unless: Boy 1 like girls and she likes him. Boy 2 likes girl but she doesn't know or play with his emotions of have that 'hmm do I like him better or the other one?" Because when it's a 'which one do I like better?" I always feel she can't be...

I'm kind of doing one myself. So you still have a "bad guy" its just not human like an asteroid or freak weather.

I mean Max Gladstone did something similar in his books, I think my best bet would be to make each a stand alone book.

The Hunt for red October is a thriller by Lee child Gone girl The Magicians would be mine. and Little Women

I'm working my way through Wheel of Time books and also Gone Girl.

Never heard of it. Is it worth watching?

I have thought about keeping my first book as back story and starting from the Urban type book and making that book one. But it's tricky because I'd like to write the other idea as well.

Hi Guys, I just need some advice on my Fantasy series that I would like to publish one day and I didn't realize at the time but although they are both fantasy they are a different sub-genres. One is high fantasy and the second book is more Urban fantasy. I'm new to Fantasy writing so may be...

In one of my fantasy books there was 'killing' which separated my character's soul from their body and they don't die just go onto a different plane of consciousness. Their life didn't end there is went on. Either rebirth, or in spirit. Then I had 'killing' which was destroying a person's soul...

Never had inspiration in a weird place as I don't tend to dwell in weird places. A friends' child was practising the alphabet and a rather bizarre looking A. From that I made it the main symbol in a novel that I then wrote around that concept.

I hear a lot from writers that they 'put themselves into the character or I become the character' and therefore many of them preference first person because it makes it easier for them to do it. But I think writing is about telling a story through another person's eyes and I've also found that...

I'm hoping to combined my thriller writing with some fantasy.

I prefer to read and write in third person. When I read first person I don't feel like I can 'become the character' because when i hear 'I' I feel like I'm reading someone else's story and reading about someone else. Whereas in third the 'he/she' stuff makes it feel less personal to the...

I find using said it better. Because when you use things like 'he barked' 'he snapped' she said softly. You're starting to tell rather than show. And I just don't like using words to describe how a character spoke unless it's important because most of the time the dialogue says it for you. Like...