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SAY IT! Two-Face. Harvey Two-Face. A young Jedi named Darth Vader betrayed and murdered your father. Maybe if you wrote it down. Nah, I can’t spell it. Alright, his name ...

If you’ve succeeded in trudging through the difficult mud pool of villain clichés, you’re not quite safe. After all, you still have another group of major characters to work with, ...

Who would Batman be without the Joker, or Harry Potter without Lord Voldemort? There would be no conflict for Batman or Harry Potter to overcome, and thus no interesting tale. ...

I'm looking for who was urging the first group of people to settle the New World. Sorry, didn't catch that. It was the governments of the people who wanted to ...

There were often alot of posters. Posters everywhere, promising rich farmland, wealth, and and generally a perfect life if you went to live in America. The posters promised cheap fares, ...

I agree that it's important to know what you're talking about, however I also think it's important to create your own ideas. When it comes to things that are very ...

Most of you are probably all groaning right now. I mean, come on, reaserch is only for those boring school projects, right, right ? No. No matter what genre you ...

Hey, i'm starting a writing club at my school. My idea is to watch a movie and fill out a form to get better understanding of plot,characters,etc.

Hello. Today I am going to talk about character, and what character means throughout the course of your story. In my Plot & Rising Action essay, I talked about rising ...

This is great - I'm bookmarking this for when I'm ready to begin writing my query, but perhaps it should be moved to writing tips? I'll tell the mods.

Hello. I am here today to talk abut the plot of your novel. Let me clear up one thing before I begin: Just because a novel has writing in it ...

I am dying to know this question for two reasons. 1. I have a character in the novel that i'm writing has the name of Murtagh. I didn't name the ...

Well, maybe "She's my sister," would flow better, I don't know. "was" doesn't make since, because even though it IS in past tense, the sister is still alive. If this ...

Take away some of the skills and talents. Make him so he's not so perfect at everything. Maybe he has a certain deformity, or his eyes are brown rather then ...

Well, I'm writing this one book that takes place in 1985. I want to know how certain people would dress. Girls, Guys. How would they do their hair? (Oh, and ...