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I cannot help but notice that my stories, no matter what my genre, are extremely dialog heavy. It's still a habit I carried over from my short stories, as in there I didn't have the room for large inner monologues or descriptive paragraphs. My stories tend to be character driven, and for me the...

I want to get feedback for my revised first chapter, as I want to see where I need to improve and if it's engaging enough to justify writing a chapter 2. So first brief story synopsis and concept without plot spoilers: This is an action/science fiction story with superhero elements, it is set on...

I can't say I have, and well, maybe it's time I change that. After many tries at writing my story, I find myself trying to emulate writers based on the most common suggestions. My most recent drafts (not shown on this website) have emulated either Tolkien (still a gold standard by some folks)...

As I am writing my story, I cannot help but notice it's a bit slow for the genre I am aiming for. After all, my story is action/science fiction based and so far my opening chapters are almost nothing but dialog. My story needs its hook to pull my audience in, and well I am thinking about taking...

Okay, so here's the scoop: My MC at the start of my story is a rookie member of a police/anti-terrorist organization. Now he has had basic training and already graduated the academy, my MC still lacks field experience. This doesn't mean he doesn't have baseline skills, I mentioned he has several...

So as I work out the kinks in my story, I came up with a scenario that I want some second opinions on. Believability is something I know most people complain about these days, so I'm trying to apply some common sense here. So here is the scenario, I have a commanding officer who is leading his...

So here is the scoop, I am totally redoing my characters backstories and well I want to solve a problem I have. You see, I originally had my characters as police officers, a simple approach but one that would account for why they would become superheroes later on. I was originally inspired by my...

In modern story writing I am seeing this huge trend in younger writers who do everything they can to avoid tropes. Trope avoidance is an issue that can drive one mad too and leave stories feeling static or unsatisfactory. This is because for many tropes = clichés, and it's rather sad when it...

Okay so as I may have mentioned here, I am autistic and grew up with a learning disability. Now I am mostly high functioning, but it does have its effect on my writing and how I do things. I have always had an odd relationship with grammar and punctuation but because writing is my only creative...

You just got transformed into a robot by an evil mad scientist who you guessed it wants to take over the world What do you do?

I am unsure if this kind of topic is appropriate or not but here it goes: I am getting sick of hearing the term "Mary Sue" being thrown around these days, yes "Gary Stu" is used too but not so much as the former. Really it's impossible to make any character these days without this term being...

So here's the scoop: Science fiction for ages 7-14 is quite slim outside your normal established series like Star Wars or comic book based series like Batman or Marvel stories. My goal is to have something new and while I keep my tropes close to my chest I know I have something. So imagine...