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Common, repeatable methods of achieving particular storytelling effects or of avoiding narrative pitfalls.
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What makes you turn off from reading a blog immediately?
Facts that I can search for bring me to your blog. Good writing can make me come back to see what else you have to say.
Things that make me leave a blog page:
Slathered in ads.
Uses distracting bli …
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Can the Hero's Journey be detrimental to the process of storywriting?
After looking into your oblique reference to "Campbell," I see that you are actually referencing a specific type of "Hero's Journey." That's a particular definition with specific points.
Campbell's d …
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What can I do with a part that I feel is necessary to a story but it's an absolute drudgery?
If it's a drudge to write it, it is a drudge to read it. I (as a reader) don't want to read this:
He turned around and started walking to the nearby store. He bought a bread and a yoghurt. Then he c …
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To explain or not to explain?
Nobody does that. You never explain a device in deep detail, especially if it is something in daily use.
In your example, you may need to differentiate between "A calls B" and "A calls B on a cellpho …
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How to describe a setting but without making it too cliche?
Just don't.
The weather (or other elements of the setting) can have an effect on the characters, but the character's mood has no effect on the weather.
A gray, overcast day might pull your character's …
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