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It's hard to know when to "show, don't tell" in writing. This writing technique, along with show don't tell examples, makes a big difference.
There was nothing that he could recall in the manual or months of training that told him what to do in case of a speeding train other than tucking your head between your legs and kissing your ass goodbye. So he was well and unprepared for the old man as he grabbed Ramon by the lapel...
Question: I have a kissing scene in my young adult novel and it's pretty descriptive but I'm afraid people might think it's a bad scene and doesn't count … Antagonist's Point of View only one chapter at End of Novel Question: There are several antagonists in the book but the main...
What about sex or kissing? If you’re writing a modern-day story, how do you deal with technology which is always changing? If you don’t want your characters to have instant access to their friends, do you set the novel back in the 90s? Plus, we all know kids cuss when their pare...
Kissing Alice(2010), set in 1920s and 1930s England (shortlisted for the 2010McKitterick Prize). She has two non-fiction works as well: Magpies, Squirrels and Thieves: How the Victorians Collected the World(2012), which tells the stories of some of the 19th-century’s most intriguing col...
I think in this case you do need to know a bit aboutThe Waste Land’s cultural impact in order to get the full value of the exchange; I chose not to explain it all because it’s such a small scene that explanation would have overloaded the significance. Some readers will skim past, ...
campy stakes but surprising emotional cores, lovably immoral characters, queer coded villains, and people kissing while things explode. She reads widely across genre and age range and is particularly looking for queer and POC authors taking on genre tropes in commercial fiction.Learn more about Maeve...
But I suspect it was just the opposite: he felt that fewer smarmy media people should be kissing his ass while he nonetheless obsessively courted that attention. In Starship: The Magazine about Science Fiction, Robert Anton Wilson describes this personality type: Most of the characteristics which ...
Sometimes you need to “just keep swimming” and the block will work itself out. You can also jump ahead to a scene or part you have very clearly mapped out in your mind, and while you are working on that, your brain will be subconsciously problem-solving for you. ...