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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...

There's a lot to be said about how much you say. I know that it's a convention of shounen (and prose in general that's styled after...

Vanity publisher. You pay them to publish your books. You'd be better off registering with a print service and putting your books on...

If they contact you through DMs, always be suspicious. Companies, especially old-fashioned ones like a book publisher, won't do that...

There's no downside for them. They do it to protect list placement and positioning. There's a huge downside to anyone else who wants...

First of all, I'm a planner-type author. I was formerly a pantser, but realized I'm not progressing with how I do things, so I switched...