Ways your main character can ultimately succeed

When reaching the climax of the story, the main character usually overcomes the central problem that he set out to solve. Still, this penultimate scene tends to play out differently from story…

Inventing Reality Editing Service
Consider sending your protagonist on an initiation

Among the most important events in our lives are various rites of passage – confirmation, high school graduation, drinking for the first time, obtaining a driver’s license, marriage, firstborn…

Inventing Reality Editing Service
Center on internal flaw for compelling story

To make a story more compelling, consider structuring it around an internal flaw in the main character. An internal flaw is some personal trait that makes a character less than perfect – perha…

Inventing Reality Editing Service
Include clever in-jokes by tuckerizing

One way of rewarding the careful reader is by tuckerizing. This involves naming secondary characters or offstage icons after people or objects many readers would recognize as a sort of in-joke.For …

Inventing Reality Editing Service

#WorldOfOntyre 24

7 chapters left to edit in Book-5!

I miss mapmaking and have been reviewing old ones. The original Tremjara map is from 2002 (created in Paint). Dimensions: 754 x 531 pixels.

The 2020 Tremjara map’s dimensions: 4800 x 3200 pixels.

If you zoom in on the old map it blurs immediately. That land maze in the NW? Scrapped in 2003. The color palette was severely limited.

Be everwell.

#AmWriting #WritingCommunity #AmWritingFantasy #Fantasy #FantasyFiction #Fiction #Maps

Utilize Plot Device to Move Story Forward

If uncertain how to advance your story, you may want to employ a plot device. Also known as a plot mechanism, plot devices are any element that moves a story forward. For example, if the main …

Inventing Reality Editing Service

#WorldOfOntyre 23

EIGHT chapters left to edit in Book-5!

I was the teen who never revised in school, though, in those days I had to rewrite papers by hand. I detested doing that, so I endured the red ink.

Now, I have to guard against over-editing, placing word efficiency ahead of readability. It’s the battle between my practical and creative sides.

It’s my practical side that plans and organizes.

Be everwell.

#AmWriting #WritingCommunity #AmWritingFantasy #Fantasy #FantasyFiction #Fiction

Open story by hinting at some mysterious element

Straight-up information about a character or a setting rarely marks a great way to start a story. Instead, the opening lines need to hint at some mysterious element.An example of straight-up inform…

Inventing Reality Editing Service
8 Simple Tips for Self-Editing Your Writing

• Watch for consistency errors in your story  • Six useful tips for self-editing your book  • Avoid using ALL CAPS in your writing  • Don’t smother writing with your red pen  Sometimes writers sabo…

Inventing Reality Editing Service
Professional Fantasy Book Editor

Affordable Book Editing | Novels | Short Stories

Inventing Reality Editing Service