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How do I make my characters sound British?
Read Sherlock Holmes, Agatha Christie, watch British films or sitcoms, also Dr Who sci-fi; note the difference between British and American sci-fi.
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How can I recognize and take constructive criticism?
I think you don't understand the author's job.
The author of a story imagines the situation, the scenes, the characters, and their personalities, and does the engineering to turn this into a coherent ...
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How can I recognize and take constructive criticism?
There are stories that aren't written for the majority of people but for a small(er) subset of them. Not everyone likes steampunk, for example, and there are niches beside the larger mainstream genres ...
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Should I flesh out the start of my fictional story?
This is not foreshadowing.
Unfortunately, for American audiences, calling out "Marco" is comical; it is reminiscent of the childhood game "Marco Polo", a call and response game ...
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Should I flesh out the start of my fictional story?
If I understand it right, you've written the first scene that's supposed to foreshadow later events, but not yet the later events themselves.
You're best equiped to write a good foreshadowing if you ...
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