You guys should check out Windy.com I've used it for a couple of design projects and it just hit me that it's world-build-tastic. The app shows...
I recently finished every episode of the Writing Excuses podcast (for anyone who hasn't given it a go, you're really missing out). Can anyone...
For an agent/editor/publisher pitch scenario, eg. standing at a convention delivering one succinct sentence during conversation, which of the...
Those of you that are writing / have written third person: does your narrative voice somewhat mirror the voice of the POV? Does it depend how...
Due to the planet’s position and behaviour in the solar system I’ve planned out, the town I’m writing about in my novel gets highs of around 50...
In school, my teachers always discouraged the words 'but', 'big', 'good' and 'said'. I know now that those teachers were just reading from a lame...
My current WIP is my first serious attempt at a novel. It's a trilogy that I've world built and plotted pretty deeply and I'm now at the end of...
My entire story is in chronological order but my first chapter could currently be set anywhere from 1 to 15 years before chapter 2. At what...
I'm writing a high fantasy trilogy that follows a family seeking refuge in a fast developing world. The teenage son and daughter (14 and 15 right...
I know that typically chapters are shorter at the start and end of books and that there are various chapter length techniques to control pacing....
When writing in a program (I use Scrivener), sometimes I put a marker in something and fill the name or fact in later. This allows me to keep up...
I have a scene going on a thick forest (think Fangorn) and for the sake of a fight scene that's going to happen, need the guards on one side of...
My WIP is a medieval fantasy adventure. My writing inadvertently tends to hover on the border of quite modern language similar to that of Rothfuss...
Do you guys write dialogue noises such as "ugh!" for disgust, "agh!" for surprise, growls, sniffs etc? I think I'd like to avoid any such sounds...
I just took a first swing at the potential cover for my WIP. Title of book and series very much a WIP too. The story follows a family, the mother...
In Writing Excuses S12E11: Diction, Mary mentions that most alliteration, particularly accidental, is seriously distracting. What do you think...
I'm currently writing my first chapter and am looking to start at the beginning of the story. No prologue or no framing device. On occasions...
As I plot my WIP I’ve been colour labelling chunks (potential chapters) based on the mood of the scene and have noticed a pretty consistent...
I'm planning and writing a trilogy using Scrivener and am really enjoying mapping out the story and each character arc chunk by chunk. Those of...
Firstly, what're your main reasons for writing it in the first place? It seems to me that it gives only limitations. Beyond being unable to write...
