Dynamo

In any story you want deaths to be meaningful. Even if it's the death of a person the main character just met and barely knows you need to make it ...

Oh please. If you write anything about religion in any form, odds are you're going to offend somebody somewhere. That's the beauty of free speech. :D Trust me, even if ...

Knowing where your story will end is very helpful in my opinion. If you know the ending then you have a goal and you know where your character has to ...

It depends on what kind of story you're writing, I guess. For me, I'm writing a fantasy epic with a lot of lore and history that I'm trying to build ...

Speaking as a gamer myself, there's a certain stereotype attached to adolescent gamers, specifically with them being those angry, high-pitched headaches who do nothing but play Halo or Call of ...

Speaking as a writer myself, when I write I just think about the world in my story that I'm trying to bring to life. What happens after it's published isn't ...

It's a pretty strict rule in writing that when writing a story you must always stick with only one point of veiw, whether it's 1st or 3rd person. That's not ...

I don't really read young adult romances, I tend to go with the full adult ones. While I'll admit they can get pretty smutty, they're much more interesting simply because ...

If the story warrants lots of characters, you can have as many as you like. But keep in mind that each book should have some kind of limit. You should ...

Put simply, why does it matter? When I'm writing I don't worry about the mechanics of the grammar I'm using, I just write what sounds right to me. Keep in ...

Contrary to what most of the people here have said, empathy is the way to go. Sure, sympathy can be useful to make someone care about a character, but in ...

My characters never talk to me, they know better than to halt my train of thought or disrupt my sleep. :D The best way to show characterization is not through ...

I don't read novels anymore, I don't have the time or patience for it. The last book I tried to read was Fellowship of the Ring, but Tolkin's writing proved ...

For my novel, I plastered my dorm wall with sheets of newsprint paper and drew three points: the beginning, the middle, and the end. From there I drew a line ...

This kinda reminds me of the Quarians from Mass Effect, along the lines of having to prove themselves when they reach adulthood. When they reach adulthood they have to leave ...