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Can always use flashbacks to show the other characters in the memories of the MCs (if you're really ambitious, you can even show how the...

For us who use document-processing programs or apps, like Microsoft Word (for me, as we're provided by the Flip government with a...

Some very good advice here, folks. Thank you!

What helps me is using the old Josh Sawyer method from Fallout New Vegas. In an interview he explained that you don’t need anything...

Hm. This is kinda small and probably incomplete on it's own, but I'd say that when your characters think of their community and...

The probably correct but certainly difficult option is to have a select few members of that community steal the show for a few scenes...

What is a routine? For educators like me (I'm a public high school teacher irl), routine are the things I and my students automatically...

“the conviction in her voice brooking no argument.”

Hey, folks. Here's the essence of my question: How do you write a community that feels real without having to develop a dozen separate...

Not ‘switching’ necessarily, but it does feel jarring to jump from 3rd person limited, ‘He ran upstairs,’ to, ‘Yikes, it’s messy up...

First, I want to echo what other folks have been saying. Putting every sentence on a new line is really not the way to go about things...

Nope. BELLOWED, SCREAMED, DISCOMBOBULATED, SCHLONBONKODATED, MUTTERED, CROAKED, and so on and so forth. If the dialogue happens, and the...

Still not for me, but this is much better. The only other bit of advice I'll offer is that, occasionally, your narration becomes too...

Paragraphs are essentially an idea isolated in the text from other ideas. Each new paragraph essentially resets the short term thinking...

Nice, I got the vibe down at least :blob_joy: I may have shot myself in the foot by only taking a snapshot of a larger chapter. In...