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It's almost identical to an article on homosexuality from about eight years ago. Just replace Covid with homosexuality in males.

I'd consider tightening the sentences up a bit and not mentioning the trap in the second paragraph. It raises questions that I suspect you don't want to answer in the blurb. EG: For a thousand years, the undead sorcerer Constantin Leth has plagued the world with his evil magic. There's a huge...

I still enjoy TV - particularly in the autumn when most of my favourites have new episodes. But then I love the shows where you have clever people doing clever things that they are really talented at. I also enjoy a fun quiz show.

Tiffany would work.

When I have been editing any of my present tense stories then I find past tense really difficult to read because my brain keeps trying to put the book I am reading into present tense. Maybe people here that work in past tense do the same when they read present tense. I personally, tend to read...

Given the trend is about 11 years old I don't think it's going anywhere. It was The Hunger Games that changed things. I had an interesting couple of years trying to sell a present tense book back in 2010/11 - half way through Hunger Games went from selling well to massive and agents stopped...

Purely based on people I know (I was an early Charlotte in the 70s) and popular names in School. What I will say it depends where in the UK. These are names from North of England - those from Scotland would be different. (Morag, Isobel, Evelyn, Hazel and Mary were way more popular) Earlier in...

It remains my favourite Dr Who story. And it's the only one that ever really scared me. Plus it had Ace. Sylvester McCoy is by far my favourite doctor - I loved his dark humour portrayal. However, it scared me enough that I am not sure I want to rewatch it. It's sad that thanks to a certain...

I've always taken it on a character by character basis, story by story basis even a chapter by chapter basis - some characters are just more sweary than others. They're just words and deciding to never use them is removing a rich and fertile part of our language. In my big (taking me years to...

I wrote the first 70,000 words of Mayhem in a long weekend - it kind of broke my brain and it was a few weeks before I wrote again.

As a writer, I focus on giving the reader a reason to give a damn about the characters and also give them a clear idea of where my characters are, why they are there etc That can be done in relatively few words but there has to be something that allows that reader to empathise and to want to...

For a novel usually not much planning goes into it. With a world I am creating myself there isn't much a quick Google search can't answer. I just write a first draft and then see what I need to know. Then I research and write a second draft, tweaking anything I have to. I have started with an...

If it's not jibing with you then there is probably no reason to continue but IMO you are taking it far too seriously and you are actually reading it as a historical piece with modern sensibilities instead of reading it with modern eyes. Society changes but there is a lot about being a human...

You can make the author the narrator and write omniscient for the odd scene. It's going to depend on your skills if you can make it work.

We've had one for a few years - the wife built it. Pretty sure it didn't cost anywhere near £1000 but I think she picked up secondhand parts and she then used the printer to make the case. Its made all sorts from a Venus de Milo ornament, to brackets for shelves and handles for the kitchen. It...

I'm ambidextrous with a slightly dominant right hand and dominant left foot, My left hand writing is legible but less fluent and I can no longer write with both hands at once. I found it really helped when I started to learn to type as both hands come into play. I do find I am more creative...

I'm relying on my eldest child who has patchy knowledge of Japanese but he says that the Netflix subtitles are closer to the Japanese than the dubbed versions.

I watched them (Ghibli) with a much rougher English translation - I was always upset by the changes in Kiki's Delivery Service. It's quite interesting to watch Ghibli films with the Netflix subtitles - they often tell quite a different story.

Would the character/narrator know that? There's a big difference between an unreliable narrator and deliberately lying/deceiving to the reader. If the character has the knowledge, has opportunity to share it and doesn't then it's lying. You then have to decide is there a reason the narrator is...

I deliberately use first person narrators or close third with my fantasy stories. It doesn't allow for plot holes but it does mean the world only has to be explained at their level of understanding.The reader doesn't need to know anymore than the narrator does. For example although I have an...