Lauren2010

Ahhh, the age old debate between literary fiction and genre fiction. As BlueAfrica pointed out, literary fiction is all about the characters (sometimes you won't even be able to find ...

BadNarrator has a lot of good points! My biggest suggestion, coming off of those, is just to slow things down. Let some more time pass for the reader between getting ...

I love Wuthering Heights because the characters are all so hateable that I adore them. xD What you say about it being a super multifaceted novel is so true! There ...

I think you should tell the story in whatever length is necessary to tell the whole story! Which sounds kind of "well duh, I know that" of course. But it's ...

Hi Jenchuu! You've got a lot of really great ideas to work with here! And awesome ideas are the most important thing to have when working with a novel. ^^ ...

Killing off any character, in and of itself, usually isn't a problem (like, you can do it however you want and no one will probably question you so long as ...

This was posted quite a while ago, but this reminds me of novels like The Call of the Wild (which is told from the perspective of a sled dog named ...

My biggest suggestion would be to look at other languges! There might be words in other languages (Latin might be in line with the atmosphere of your story?) that mean ...

I quite like them! My favorite I've read is Chinua Achebe's "Things Fall Apart" which is set in Nigeria. I'm also quite intrigued by colonization in literature, which novels set ...

Well, I know that most "literature" is also categorized under the "literary fiction" genre. This has come to suggest a heavily character-driven work that often lacks your typical plot structure ...

Well first of all, keep in mind that the Mississippi River runs pretty much along the western border of the state, so if you're thinking of being right on the ...

Twitter would be a really interesting platform for that sort of thing, especially since the form is so constrained it would really inspire something unique. It'd have to be an ...

My protagonists are always so passive, and I have no idea why. For some reason it's really hard for me to fix it, though.

I'd probably check it out, considering I have a huge thing for dystopia. You'd have to really push the limits, though, and try to do something different with the genre ...

It seems like the villain ought to be smart enough not to wear big metal suits next to magnetic death rays, considering the villain built the magnetic death ray. ;) ...