Vikingr

For a modern (like set right now) war, special forces would probably be very very important, also unconventional warfare. Over the past decades, special forces have increased in size, capability, ...

Darn characterization, always the difficult part. I think one thing to consider is the almost literal proximity of some characters to each other. Like if a few characters are working ...

This is especially for NaNoWriMo: If you get to a point where you introduce a name of a person or place or want to put in an epithet but can't ...

@Vikingr, but there's a difference between someone finding the subject matter (politics, economics, taxes, taxonomy, etc.) confusing or boring, and someone finding the writing itself confusing or bori

It might be worth considering the person reading your work themselves. Like whether they are in the target audience in the first place. For instance I like Tom Clancy books ...

I sometimes listen to songs in Gaelic; don't think it would hurt.

I think that like it was said above you could pull off some repetition with the ritual if it is not copypasta from earlier in the story. For instance in ...

If you want some more original places that aren't touristy/landmarks you could imagine them maybe going to (sneaking into) some paramilitary facility in a place like Abkhazia or Ossetia. Most ...