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I’ve been tinkering with an idea for a story set on an ecumenopolis for so long that I’m starting to wonder if I’ll ever actually be...

There are plenty of military juntas and dictatorships that you can look at for inspiration, but it can be easy to write a paper-thin...

You can start by reading Prussia's history. It's one of the best examples of an "army with a kingdom."

In my opinion, the subtler the hint, the longer you can wait before actually writing the event. A lot of books that I love have hints...

This probably boils down to personal taste. As a frustrated teenager who often felt taken for granted, unappreciated, not respected...

People are just gonna post N/A or some one word answer if you force them to do that, or they won't ever give those reviews in the first...

I suspect it would be like when a former employer required all managers to "justify any ratings of 1 or 5 stars" and 90% of the managers...

All the time. I usually focus my best efforts on the story I want to tell and then write a junk story whenever I get writer's block...

The novel I worked so hard for and dedicated three years of my life is trash, so it shoots two birds in one stone.

Honestly, I thought this part is obvious among writers: prologues should serve to set the tone and as an appetizer for the story, not a...

All fiction has setups and payoffs, but mysteries tend to depend on those more than most other kinds of genre fiction. To get a good...

Certainly, and I didn't mean to imply that you wouldn't have an intentional thematic undertone to your work. What I meant to say was...

That's such a complicated question. It really depends on what I'm going for. Richard III? Paul Atreides? Dedra Meero, Ervin Burrell...

Don't worry about the content of your story as long as the storytelling is good... readers can enjoy it.

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