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Questions that involve people in a work of fiction, including character development, motivations, design, points of view, and representation.
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Describing body language?
To add to the already excellent answer, you do not need to describe body language every time, you can clearly state the subtext directly as the narrator.
He leaned in and lowered his voice, all hi …
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Do hard to pronounce names break immersion?
I’m only going to give my view as a foreign English reader.
It doesn’t matter, I’ve found out I mispronounced Elminster, Hermione and half of the names on the Lord of the rings mythology. It didn’t b …
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Creating and keeping track of characters
Research, apply, refine, repeat.
I wouldn’t go blindly into trial and error, not in these days where all the information in the world, almost literally it’s at your fingertips.
Instead do a little b …
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How to make clear what a part-humanoid character looks like when they're quite common in the...
This may just be my style of reading, but whenever possible, I do prefer a straight break-the-fourth-wall description of the character's physical attributes if they are relevant, and for that to happe …
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