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By beating your head over with a metal bat. I usally have a very generic plan , then I plan the next 5 chapters in more detail. I'm terrified that I may never finish my test series.

All the time. Before it was unintentional and blind. Now it's for the greater good.

I got sick of just consuming content. I got even sicker seeing that hardly anyone was creating less digestible content. I write to bring my psychological philosophy to the world.

Be prepared for writing in multiple POVs. The problem with first person POVs is that you tend to leave out a lot of information. If a character doesn't notice something, it's hard to write it so the audience does. If a character knows a lot or is really smart, then everything is telegraphed too...

Fight scenes, or any scene for that matter, are extremely boring when written from a moment to moment basis. What you want to describe is things that showcase the switching of dominance in the fight. Showcase things that have an emotional impact. Things that have meaning to the story beyond...

Well-known.

You never want to delve into complete originality, rather you should put your own original or unique twist on an already established concept. You never know if you've done a good job unless you have something to compare it to. Also people like different, not alien.

Yes, but do it sparingly. Try to misspell or highlight only 1-2 words per sentence depending on the length. Too much is distracting and can be seen as bigoted by snowflakes. If you need to represent a group with certain speech patterns or any other characteristic, make characters that represent...

It's taken me over a decade of constant work and I still fail sometimes. Usually to happiness. I can be happy when I want, but not displaying happiness when I don't want to becomes... Uncontrollable sometimes. The best strategy I've found is to create mental icons or embodiments of your...

Watch this, it will give you a great example on how to write romance when you aren't writing a romance.

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I've never heard of that, but if you're willing to commit to the editing and outlining process, it would be better to just make a published book. Unless you really, really need the cash.

I try to think about what I need to research and I designate a full day to just researching. That way I can focus on writing when I need to write and I use my imagination for the rest. If you're writing about technicalities that fundamentally change how a scene or the story might play out...

Sokka is such a painfully flawed person that I can't imagine writing or reading his perspective, especially first person. Though he makes an excellent side character and I kinda like the character as is. As far as just being just having his body, it's not bad, but I think Aang is more...

I can give advice, but this video will explain it better.

Yes those flashbacks are done well. Flashbacks are almost always used to deliver exposition, but the focus should be taken away from the exposition in most cases. It's usually easier to deliver this in visual stimulus, though there are exceptions. The flashback isn't as important as what is...

Those are good reasons logically, but how does it deliver emotional weight? How memorable was it? How does it push the narrative forward? I haven't read your work, but flashbacks will almost always grind the overall narrative to a halt for the sake of exposition. They destroy the overall pacing...

It can be done well, but there are better ways to communicate whatever yoy are trying to tell. Unless the very idea of there being a flashback is somehow connected to a theme of the story, then it has limited use. Writing devices often need multiple facets and dimensions. They should accomplish...

I find that there are generally 2 good ways to start a flashback, both are implicit. 1. It's directly at the start of the chapter, but it's in italics or it's bolded. Maybe it's in parentheses. It ends when the scene suddenly shifts back into the current scene (pre-flashback) where all the...