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I love writing my "key scenes." When I start thinking about and planning a story, my very first ideas are almost always one or two key scenes with powerful plot/character ...

I unfortunately don't have anything to add, but @alliyah that was fascinating and I feel enlightened!

That's quite possibly true! I'd recommend maybe thinking about it a little more and wait for some other people to answer as well, but when you do pick one stick ...

My two primary considerations when I chose between first vs. third is who the main character is, and their voice. Does my main character have a unique, engaging, or distinctive ...

@Lareine, I was looking at your story page and I think I'm going to have to start using images more in my planning because they just convey a tone so ...

I use Scrivener, and so my ideas and plans all wind up jumbled together in paragraphs of text on various documents inside Scrivener. Like, in my current project I have ...

Novel revisions are fun! ! First off, I agree with the tips everyone else has given, but I'll try to add a couple of my own. When you re-read through ...

This is so great. Especially because I'm reading this as I'm in the planning stages and I realized that every time I've had a breakthrough so far, it's because of ...

In my experience, you can't get the beginning right until you've worked out your ending. This is because the beginning exists to set up your ending - you need to ...

I think you make a really interesting point, Thundah. I have read first person narratives that feel like they're describing everything to an outside party, and first person narratives that ...

If you're thinking that more chapters are really needed from this other person's POV, and you can make it so there's a good balance between the first and third person ...

I have only ever read one series which switches back and forth from third person to first person (Bartimaeus Trilogy, if anyone's interested, great series), and it suited that series ...

Yeah, with my novel Mixing Magic, I wrote the first draft, and then immediately went back and did a bit of a continuity/proofreading edit that involved re-writing a decent portion ...

I've come up with my two current novels in two very different ways. The first one came about because I knew I wanted to write a middle grade fantasy, and ...

@Carlito - You've already been a huge help, but now I'm looking into the current state of mental heath support in US public schools (things like the psychologists/social workers available ...