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Oy. I'm presently building a world that's been sitting on the backburner for ages now, and I'm cracking it open from the beginning. There isn't much there at the moment: ...

Ahoy! I figured that, as a fellow worldbuilder, I'd come check this out. You have so much room for so much amazing history and mythology, and I think that it ...

I have this problem essentially every time I write dual-first (with one exception). Honestly, the only way to get over it is to say to yourself "this is excessive and ...

The problem with writing at a different pace is that: unless we set deadlines for ourselves, and add consequences to not finishing by that deadline, chances are we'll all always ...

I agree with Tri where she says research. Google is a massive resource of inspiration, because the best place to look for war-related ideas is within war history. Don't just ...

Man, that'd actually be really cool (I might toss something similar elsewhere), but everything associated with the tree is considered a good omen, so a Tyotyom being in charge of ...

I've been trying to figure out a backstory for the two birds for a while now :P Everything I try ends up leading to some giant mytho-hole just as it ...

Firstly: Losing interest in a plot, for me, usually means that I'm doing one or more of a list of things: 1) Over-planning This happens when I get to excited ...

Okay so, the backstory to this is that a friend and I write together a lot, and one of our collabs involves an m/m/m romantic situation that takes place in ...

Definitely believable. Alcohol rules here are generally disregarded by the majority of the juvenile/teenaged populace. In elementary school, half of my friends were already drinking by seventh grade.

First of all: Are the journal entries necessary at all? They can add an interesting twist, sure, but if you don't need them and can't get them right, then maybe ...

The best approach to this is generally to think about what's going on in the character's head while he's doing what he's doing. We don't need to know what colour ...

Well, nicknames usually have a reason. If someone's name is already that short, then there's really no way to shorten it to be a nickname. "A" and "B" is a ...

I think that writers should definitely do this. I mean, how boring would it be if we only wrote characters who are like us and have the same voice as ...

You incorporate dialogue the same way you incorporate anything else! There are lots of different ways to flow into it, and come out of it. I'll give you a few ...