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"Creative writing" is a vague term, but generally means fiction, or writing that's not non-fiction, technical, or business writing. This tag should be used when asking questions that apply to multiple categories of creative writing, such as when asking questions that could apply to fiction or poetry alike.
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Is it a bad idea to have a pen name with only an initial for a surname?
You can publish under any name you choose. Whether it makes a difference to your sales is a very open question, but if it makes you feel better about publishing your work, then by all means use a pen …
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What can I do to make my book more challenging?
In English, at least, there's a specific scoring procedure for determining "reading grade level". This is based on things like sentence length, total vocabulary (count of unique words), average word …
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Do I need to start off my book by describing the character's "normal world"?
You do need to establish your character's "normal" -- but you almost certainly don't need to do it in a lump at the beginning of the book.
The Hobbit doesn't start with a long chapter about daily lif …
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How do you work with a story with an ending that's obvious from the very start?
When writing to a foregone conclusion, the story is in the path, not the destination.
If I choose to hike the Appalachian Trail, it's foregone that (barring hike-ending injury or other emergency or my …
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Does Dean Wesley Smith's recommended method of writing into the dark, editing and sending ac...
I knew Dean Wesley Smith when he ran a little used book store while working on becoming a writer and going to law school. Further, I was a member of a critique group ("Clarion style") with him for a …
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How to make good anti-heroes?
The underlying quality of a good anti-hero is that he (or she) genuinely believes himself to be doing his best in the circumstances he lives in -- despite an outsider (the reader) being able to see hi …
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How can I write a realistic motorcycle crash?
As one who has experienced three (fairly mild) motorcycle crashes (two front-wheel lockups, and one caused by changing lanes over a lane divider curb), one with mild injury, I can tell you one fairly …
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I don't understand this synthesis and transformation question
I might rephrase that quote one of these ways:
Mary told her mother she was in process of writing a letter to Kelly.
Mary told her mother she was currently writing a letter to Kelly.
Mar …
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Is there any point where an overpowered main character could be an interesting one?
The comics have covered this a number of times over the past eighty years.
The "simple" solution is to make the overpowered condition the protagonist's main problem. Superman can't have a girlfriend/ …
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Why are 'Episodic' books so uncommon
What you're describing is a "serial". These used to be common, both in film (short films before the feature in a cinema, back when a nickel would get you a whole afternoon of entertainment), and in p …
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What's a good, multi-platform writing app? (that's not Google docs or Evernote)
Organon is a plug-in for Libre Office, which is available on both Linux and Windows (there's a Mac fork of OpenOffice or Libre Office, but I'm not sure Organon is available for the Mac version).
The …
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How do I ensure that my temper is not affecting my writing?
The simple answer is, "don't write angry."
For person to person interactions, there was a rule (old when I was young, in the 1960s) to "count to ten" before speaking. Some folks (possibly those who' …
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Can you add worldbuilding footnotes in your novel?
This is done fairly regularly in "hard science fiction" -- as by authors such as Hal Clement or Jerry Pournelle, stories such as Mission of Gravity, Still River, Close to Critical, King David's Spaces …
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Is it possible that my short novel will be boring to my readers because it only has two char...
Comparing apples to Volkswagens, a little, but a play titled Sleuth (Anthony Shaffer, 1970, adapted as a feature film in 1972, 2007, and 2014) has only two characters, and takes place in a house; in i …
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