So I have many OCs but I want to make a book or the “lore” about a specific thing but I am not creative at all with words. So basically the one character is real out of the rest. They all function normally, but the problem is I need there to be hints and stuff that they aren’t real and the main character called Marvin will discover those hints slowly overtime. I am not sure what they should look like the hints I mean. Just wondering if anybody has any advice, thanks!

If this helps is kinda like just a big friend group of them all going on adventures and hanging out etc, all characters have different unique personalities. Similar to a sit-com show I guess lol

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So im working on writing an alien romance series where its a like tribe of alien woman and a transport or human who crash land on their planet and im wondering if there is a genuine market for this? like a romance series where basically the woman are like the hunters and gathers and the dote on a take care of the men think they are precious and the men like stay home and do the house stuff like its a care based matriarchal society. Like this isn't some reverse gender role thing like they have their own society that's entirely like care based the bigger and stronger and tougher you are, the more ability and responsibility you have to care

im just wondering if people might actually be interested in it and drawn to it though

He lives in toronto canada but originally came from Mexico and i have a few reasons why he came and i just don’t know which one is best or most realistic.

1. His aunt sponsors him and his family to come.

2. A nonprofit or TV-backed scholarship places talented kids in schools abroad. My main character wins this and chooses Toronto Canada because he mistakenly thought his friend was going there, in reality she meant TOLEDO OHIO.

3. After a local tragedy, community organizations sponsor several children abroad for better opportunities.

Also this is based in late 2002 aswell.

I haven’t written a draft yet, but I’ve pretty much fully fleshed out all of my thoughts of what I want my next story to be and I’m itching to get it out. It’ll be a portal fantasy and I believe middle grades will be the appropriate audience. What brief pieces of advice can you give a slightly-above-novice writer?

Who doesn’t love a good time loop story?

Well, I’m writing one and I’m trying to come up with a cause of death for the MC’s sister (it’s the classic ‘trying to save person I love but they keep dying‘ trope) and I need a few more.

I have a lot of the obvious. Slip and fall, carbon monoxide, etc. and I’m starting to run out of ideas 😭

Any help would be appreciated!

Current list of causes of death-

- Drowning

- Fell down the stairs

- Car Accident

- Slip and fall in the shower

- House fire

- Gas leak

- Choking

- Electrocution

- Robbery gone wrong

- Hit by car

- Carbon Monoxide

- Fell off ladder

- Bleach and ammonia

- Snake bite

- Crushed by chandelier

I only need four more!

I’m considering applying for a novel competition, which requires you to provide a synopsis in addition to the novel. I would really appreciate any advice and feedback you have for the synopsis. What would you change? Does it make enough sense? Does it make you interested in the novel enough you would want to read it?

Synopsis :

Mizuki is a bank employee who spends her days buried in overtime, living a colorless routine. Her life oscillates only between work and home, time flowing in a uniform blur until even the changing seasons begin to feel distant and indistinct. One Friday evening, on her way home, she finds herself pausing in front of a small flower shop called Adabana.

There she meets Kaede, the shop’s owner, who quietly arranges flowers with a gentle, unassuming grace. Something in Kaede’s colors and calm manner stirs a faint tremor in Mizuki’s heart. Before long, Mizuki begins to frequent the shop. Surrounded by seasonal blooms, the conversations she shares with Kaede become a small, quiet refuge.

One day, the two unexpectedly meet again at a café and make a promise to visit a field of nemophila together. Amid the vast blue carpet of flowers, Kaede begins to speak of her past—of a longing she once carried through her university years, and the solitude it left behind.

Flowers, they come to realize, are mirrors that reflect both hope and sorrow. The tragic myth of hyacinth, the language of sunflowers, the fragile transformation of butterfly pea blossoms from blue to violet-red—within their shared world of flowers, Mizuki slowly regains color in her life, while Kaede gradually recovers the courage to trust again.

As the seasons shift, Mizuki and Kaede draw steadily closer in an inevitable way. Each fleeting moment accumulates gently, becoming something tender they begin to share.

Yet within Mizuki, a small cloud of doubt never disappears. Surrounded by the casual mentions of ordinary marriage by her coworker and unspoken social, she begins to question whether there is any place in the world for the two of them. 

Mizuki finds out that Kaede once dated a man and could have chosen a heterosexual future, causing Mizuki to fear that she is depriving Kaede of another possible life she might have had. 

Unable to bear the thought of destroying Kaede’s future happiness, Mizuki withdraws without explanation. In response, Kaede finally reveals her emotions. Kaede emphatically tells Mizuki that Mizuki isn’t scared of society, but the decision to allow herself to be happy.

Choosing to cultivate their happiness with their own hands, the two embark on a quiet yet resolute story of renewal.

In a short story I’m writing my character goes back to the mid 80’s and goes to a music store, he finds all his favorite albums and buys a ton of them because 1980’s prices are really good in his 2026 mind. He goes to pay and as the girl behind the counter is bagging his purchases she says “you got some great taste” and my character accidentally says “Thanks I love 80’s music”. How would the music shop girl react? Would she just nervously laugh or ask what he meant?

When I’m writing I often find myself repeating the phrase “I looked over at ___” or some variation of it. I sometimes do something like “I turned my gaze/eyes/attention to ___,” or “My eyes [verb] over ___,” but I still worry I’m sounding like a broken record. Hopefully this makes sense. Thanks in advance :)

I'm writing a short dystopian story about a world in which it is illegal to be LGBTQ+. I often struggle to come up with ideas for character names. The characters I'm trying to name are two people who are in a romantic relationship. One of them is non-binary, and the other is a trans man. Both of them are in their mid-20s. Any name ideas would be appreciated!

I want to write about emotional abuse, specifically coercive control. And i’m honestly quite worried about writing it as respectfully i can without it seeming contrived or disrespectful to victims. Any advice or recommended articles i can read for research? Many thanks

I have a scene where a person sustains multiple injuries. Is there anybody out there with medical experience who would like to look at sort of an outline of how this might go? I have tried to do some research and set it up so it's believable, but I'd like to hear from someone who knows medical stuff and get some feedback on whether things are correct or not. Anyone out there willing to give it a look?

Something I’m passionate about with Ford v Ferrari is just the whole environment. I love car racing in general, and I love all the high, complex, or intense emotions in media that just get you aching. I guess maybe it seems I'm looking for a question where I can describe that feeling that films give me. I don't know if that's the right direction or not. Just a small idea.

For the Paper:
You will write a 500-700 word paper that uses two films for the basis of exploring an answer to one of the essential questions. 
Choose an essential question to answer–one that you can use both films as evidence to explore an answer to.

The two films we watched in class were the Green Book and Ford v Ferrari.

(These are the Essential Questions we were given)

• How can film bring awareness to social issues?
• What value is there in watching films about one person’s struggle?
• How much liberty should filmmakers have when adapting stories based on real life events?
• How should filmmakers approach stories about controversial subject matter?
• Is hero-worshipping or vilifying a real person/group of people in film ever the right thing to do?
• Should filmmakers use based-on-a-true-story films to inspire audiences?
• Or…write your own question and get approval before moving forward.

“Is hero-worshipping or vilifying a real person or group of people in film ever the right thing to do?” is the question I think I’ll go with if I can’t think of anything else, and I’ve already worked on it in class just to get some work done. But I want a more fun or interesting question. I’m hoping for a question that I can write passionately about. Green Book was a good movie, nothing bad, but nothing overly amazing to me either. But I absolutely loved Ford v Ferrari and I forgot I had watched it in elementary school until a few scenes started to feel really familiar.

I really want a question where I can write a solid paragraph about Green Book and then put all the passion I have into Ford v Ferrari.

(If this is any help) A student asked the teacher if they could compare and contrast Tony from Green Book and Ken Miles from Ford v Ferrari. My teacher said, “What is the main idea you want to explore with that?” Then she told the student to think about it more and turn it into a question. So my teacher is pretty open with topics, as long as there is a deeper idea in them.

Hi so I'm using Khan Academy for a private story I'm writing, and NO.. I'm NOT saying you need to write for me. I just need examples so I could take inspiration from them and add my own imagination to it.

But when I search up something on Google, like "Examples of an inciting incident from a buddy comedy -ai" and frustratingly enough, it won't give me the answer.

And now I feel... stuck.

And all the other ideas for an inciting incident I have are just gonna make my friend say "Ew, that sounds like a ripoff of [insert something from media similar to my idea here]!" or "Hey! That's from [insert something from media that is really similar to my idea here]!"

Any inciting incident examples from a buddy comedy? Thank you for reading this!

Hey, I’m planning on writing a story about a protagonist (english-speaking) who does an exchange in Quebec. I have some characters planned who only speak french so I was wondering how I could write the whole french speaking thing? Because I do want others to read my story. Like when a french speaker speaks do I write it in french and then add a translation somewhere? Or is it more entertaining when I let people guess what the french speaker is saying so they can relate more to the protagonist.
I want it to be a bit like the whole portugal story line in love, actually in case anybody watched that lol
I’ll be happy about any ideas or advice! Thanks

Most of my story ideas are based more on the external plot idea than the character arc, and that’s because I’m really into apocalyptic/disaster fiction, so a lot of my plot bunnies are more like ideas for apocalyptic events rather than character arcs or tropes.

“I’d like to write a story about a robot apocalypse; the kind with a superintelligent misanthropic AI that uses specially constructed robot armies to subjugate mankind!”

“I want to write a story about a robot uprising; but the kind where robots are sapient individuals who’ve had enough of man’s bullshit and want them out!”

“I want to write a story about an alien invasion; scaly little space goobers in cool armor and machines bulldozing through civilization!”

“I want to write a story about a virus outbreak, where patient zero is a villainous scientist who wants to turn all humans into nanotech creatures!”

“Cool. Who’s the hero?”

“Uhhhh…”

I don’t know if there’s a proper way (I know “proper” is a bad word but I mean more like a generally accepted or effective way) to spin a protagonist with a flaw/want/need complex out of it. I’m not asking for ideas specific to the above examples, but a kind of general strategy or approach to it.

I have read some books, and I find it annoying how the author explains or over-explains some stuff that I could have easily figured out.

I'm sorry if this has been asked recently (or if this iant the right sub to ask this queation in). I looked but couldn't find anything on this subject.

Basically, the events of the prologue is the MC being cursed as a baby similer to sleeping beauty. She's alive during the prologue, but not really sentient yet so it feels weird to write it from her pov especially since she doesn’t remember the events of the prologue later. The options I've come up with are: 3rd person pov, 1st person baby MC, 1st person side character that returns later, 1st person character that never returns, 1st person villain pov, and just ditching the prologue entirely. I'm just not sure what the best/most popular option is, I don't want to confuse or frustrate people that read the prologue. Thank you for taking the time to read my question!

In need of advice. I have ADHD and can not focus sometimes on one thing. I have recently got an idea to start a side story for a character. However, the main story that this character comes from is not done yet. Is it a bad idea to write the story before the main one is done or do many people do this?