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How to avoid wasting reader investment with a thematically disappointing ending?
I'm drafting a story around chasing dreams and facing the possibility of said dreams being a lie in the end. For this, I have a main character doggedly chasing a goal that's extremely hard to achieve ...
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Should I use contractions in my narrative?
Should I use contractions in my narrative, or only use them in dialogue?
I have noticed that in some books, like The Passage by Justin Crownin, contractions are used in the prose. In others, like The ...
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Flashback vs long past tense exposition vs multiple frames of reference in the same scene
I'm giving my newest story a bit of break before I go back and fix the tense issue in it, and going back to the story I started last April.
I am unfortunate enough to have about 180k words of novel (...
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