Master_Yoda

I'm with LydiaB, Nutty, Snoink and Helpful McHelpfulpants in this one. I don't notice the word said. Plus, I just want to add that I think that the dialogue itself ...

Building a story from scratch is quite a difficult task. In fact, many a time most of us writers find ourselves wondering what to write about. Few of us know ...

Now this is an interesting question, because quite honestly under usual circumstances I'd rather have an epic plot with cliched characters. When however a character is so eccentric, interesting, or ...

I tend to have this problem all the time. I don't know what it is, but I like to describe my main character himself from another person's point of view. ...

Whenever I look back at something I've written I get a big shock: Most of it is atrocious. But I keep writing telling myself that it will improve over time. ...

Occasionally I do find that I put a lot of myself into the characters. The way that I try to make my characters unique is to take real people, and ...

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On writing dialogue: Eavesdrop on as many conversations as you can. Perhaps even take notes as you eavesdrop. On writing a character: Become the character, and nothing you can do ...

Hi there ChasingColts, Welcome to YWS! Humor is probably the most difficult genre to write. I say this because not everyone shares the same sense of humor, and because being ...

Thanks so much Rosey Unicorn, I think I'm going to do just that! Of course there will be alterations to your plan. In fact, I'm going to do it while ...

I am writing a bank robbery, and am struggling to find a scientifically viable way of breaking into a bank vault without attracting too much attention. At the moment, I ...