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Summary vs. Scene: The Ultimate Showdown Why it’s More Important than Showing vs. Telling All of us in fiction know that age-old battle of showing versus telling. When writing, it’s ...

Essay Writing: How to Take the Formulaic and Make it Your Own by Teague In grade schools everywhere, the easiest way to teach kids to write is to give them ...

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Like the others have said, it depends on what effect you want. If you're just doing it because you think it's cool, your focus is probably off the mark. But ...

Unfortunately, that's the wrong era to pick. Mary Shelley, who wrote Frankenstein, published at the opposite end of that century -- 1818. They weren't as common as male authors, but ...

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I had the same problem -- I started trying to write novels when I was 11 but didn't complete anything until November of last year. The thing that worked for ...

Of course you can have an idea as an antagonist! There's a myriad of different types of conflicts that all are pointers to what kind of antagonist you'll have. For ...

Rorschach aka Walter Kovacs, of the DC graphic novel Watchmen is a very good, non-humourous example of what you're looking for. Crazy, yes, but on the technical side of "good." ...

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How's that for a stereotype, Fanboy. Honestly, don't let yourself slip into the stereotypes of males. They're not as "mysterious" as everyone thinks. I probably hang out with more males ...

Go to your local library. There are *dozens* of books on publishing, query letters, synopses, agents, etc. etc. I recommend looking for Writer's Digest titles or Publishing for Dummies -- ...

He expressed that very poorly then, if you ask me. Somehow, "Don't do it if it doesn't burst out of you" doesn't scream "Build your confidence first!" to me. -:pirate3: