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Different words phrases for my father | Creative Writing Forums . . . So I wrote this scene for a story where the MC's (Mike) girlfriend (Kari) meets the guy's dad (James Anderson) for the first time I feel like I'm using the word "father" too much A few things to note: the story is written in first person, and the MC's relationship with his father is a bit shaky, so that's why I always like to refer to him as
Interlude or prologue? | Creative Writing Forums - Writing Help . . . I have been reading books by James Maxwell (Evermen Saga) and the muriwood books by Jeff Wheeler etc These authors seem to use interludes to chapters to reveal what I understand to be a background of the overarching story, rather than writing a prologue
Style - How I taught myself to write. | Creative Writing Forums . . . Discussion in 'General Writing' started by James Random, Nov 8, 2014 Until I'd started to write the two books I'm currently working on, I had never seriously written books before I had written, of course, as thats part and parcel of the job
Differences between supernatural and non-supernatural horror It's horrible but never really scary or even creepy I love creepy I must say, though, that a whole lot of modern supernatural horror, both in movies and literature, is not creepy But the really good stuff is There's a classic M R James BBC adaptation called Whistle and I'll Come To You (1968) which is a masterclass in creepy Free on Youtube
Illegal drugs in the 19th century - Writing Forums Not many drugs were 'illegal' - Queen Victoria liked a puff of cannabis every now and then I suppose the only drugs that were in any way taboo would be opium and alcohol, and the latter only amongst the upper classes who claimed to have standards (in particular illegally distilled whisky from Gaelic Scotland - the government put a lot of money into castles and laws to destroy the industry
New Characters in Act 2 of a novel??? - Writing Forums Using James Scott Bell's 3-Act structure it would be after the "First Doorway of No Return" (or First Turning Point) This would be after the 12,000-word mark of my 60,000-word novel I have a main villain, but simply don't have the room to explore him in the first 12,000 words
Songwriting James Taylor on songwriting - Writing Forums I saw an interview with James Taylor some time back, where he gave advice on songwriting One piece that stuck with me was this method: He'd take a song he'd like that somebody else had written, and either write new words for it, or a new melody Then he'd take that new song and write a new melody or new words for it