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TL;DR, short for "too long; didn't read", is Internet slang to say that some text being replied to has been ignored because of its length. In slang it can also stand for "Too lazy; didn't read". It is also used as a signifier for a summary of an online post or news article. Usually the author of a long post gives a tl;dr, a summary of the what ...
Publishing ANYTHING in the field will help you immensely, and if your novel is related to something publishe, even better. I think of Shards of Honor , by Lois Bujold, where she wrote her first novel focusing on the two characters that would become the parents to the main character in The Warrior's Apprentice .
Read a lot of what you want to write to achieve an intuitive understanding of the genre. Do a writing exercise (for uni or privately). While you write, try and remember that your readers do not know what you want to say. Attempt to explain your thoughts as precisely and clearly as possible. Use simple language and syntax.
5. Suppose that several individuals are speaking. There are two conversations occurring at once in the same place. Both are heard simultaneously by each person that is present. Each person participates in one and only one conversation. How does one write dialogue so that it is obvious without explanation that both explicitly quoted speeches ...
That's what you've got to provide in your first chapters - a gun on the wall. Whatever your dark themes are, hint at them in the first chapters, hint some more a while later. When you need the darkness to finally show its face, you've got the gun on the wall - all you need is to take it off and pull the trigger. Share.
A little tip about markdown: you need to hit Enter twice to get a paragraph. Or you need two spaces at the end of the line before hitting Enter once to get a soft linebreak.
1. asked May 22, 2015 at 16:15. wyc. 12.4k 19 65 128. 1. Google for "logline". A blurb has the same ingredients. Protagonist, defining characteristic or inner conflict, goal, setting, antagonist, are the most important. The blurb is like a summary of the book unti and including the inciting incident.
If you can summarize your point in 3 paragraphs (enough to summarize even a fairly complex idea), why write a novel? If you want to explore how stealing, even when seemingly justified, even when easy to get away with, might poison the thief, and even poison the beneficiaries of the thief's subsequent generosity, that might be worth 500 pages.
Alice (Protag) is struggling to move on after the disappearance of her father and cannot shake the feeling that he is still alive somewhere. Upon investigating, she discovers a more paranormal cause for his disappearance. The paranormal being is a sort of puppet-master entity who will do anything to achieve his goals.
It gives an excellent, high-level, discussion of character traits, along with general examples of how such traits develop, co-morbidity, and how they will present at different ages. Written by Linda Edelstein, it's not free but sounds like it might suit the bill. One that I know of is CharaHub.com.