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It is hard to answer from what is in your question, but scenes you feel are too short are (in my experience) under-imagined, or under-conflicted, or you are engaging in too much 'telling' about how pe …

Describe them once, as that character's standard approach, or usual caution, or something similar to that, a specific word or few words that identifies this whole thing that will be repeated often. So …

Inarticulate speech or sounds is an instance where I tell, I do not show. Shriek, Screech, Scream, Howl ... It can help if it startles somebody that comes bursting into the room to protect her, or sh …

I'd never write scared (of either variety). I might write something challenging, but not scared. I would include in the "not scared" category, being unafraid to rewrite, unafraid to cut large passages …

"I smiled. I ate. I spoke. I listened. I left." If you are going to write from a depressed point of view, I don't think these are the thoughts of a depressed person. For a depressed person, thes …

I am of the opinion that nobody wants to read about the world I built! Or really I mostly sketched it. I don't think people want a museum tour, I think they want a story. If what you built does not r …

One solution that usually works is to write when you wake up, when nothing has happened in the day. I write for two hours every morning. My alarm is set for 4:30 AM, I am at the keyboard by 5:00 AM, a …

It is the difference between being told something is true, and experiencing that same something. IRL, suppose I tell you my ten year old niece Katy is a piano prodigy. You feel one way about that, pe …

I think one technique is to be NOT just looking. +1 DPT for lengthening to personal connections, so I will talk about seeking insight into the owner of the setting. …

I wouldn't worry about it. If the scene cannot be shorter, then it is up to the director to break it up somehow, and that can include changing the camera angle, focusing on something else (stage busin …

This does answer the OP's question: As I said in my answer, and added P.S. and P.P.S, and comments later, the only requirement is that something (significant) be original, which can include characters …

As a discovery writer, I echo Michael's comment, I absolutely control the direction of the story. I personally write with an end in mind; which I record as notes (not prose) about what finally happe …

My approach (which I have taken) would be to abandon that story, think much more about Cindy the Vampire, and write a story in which she is the sole hero, and her anger and explosions end up having so …

I wouldn't shy away from "tiptoe", if I have a non-human species that has been around longer than humans, I consider everything I write about them translation of their language to English. If they hav …

Just use English, in quotes, like any dialogue. When we write about medieval fantasy, the narrator is always translating ancient languages to English for the reader. It is understood, whether you are …