B.R Cuellar's Notebook

Apr 7, 2019 at 3:41pm • Edited

Help Needed!

I'm having a rough time describing a town because there are terms that I don't know and I am not sure where to look for them. I have tried to Google and even went to the visual dictionary website, but they only have a description of a modern city. The only word I know is back alleys and that's it. Does anyone have any suggestions on books or websites that I could use for research?

Thank you!

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Alexi

Apr 7, 2019 at 5:12pm

"The Hidden Jewel a Place to Settle. "

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B.R Cuellar

Jan 15, 2019 at 4:39pm

So, I had a question for writers in this site about flashbacks. There's a chapter where my main character starts to remember a flashback because of a situation she's currently in. I don't want to break the chapter and make a new one just to explain a paragraph length of the flashback. So my question is:

Can I add a quick flashback, that is a paragraph length, into the chapter? Would the readers be confused or is that a forbidden technique in writing?

Thanks!

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Breach

Jan 15, 2019 at 6:08pm

This is completely okay to do. Sometimes authors give a clue right at the start of a paragraph break, other times they write the whole paragraph in italics (my personal preference) but as long as you smoothly make it clear it's a flashback, then it most certainly is allowed.

B.R Cuellar

Jan 18, 2019 at 4:12pm

Awesome! Thank you for responding!

B.R Cuellar

Jan 8, 2019 at 10:58am

I've been working on my book far more than ever. I'm consistently writing almost every day and I have reached chapter 17. This may not seem like a big deal to a lot of you, but it is too me. After 8 rewrites on the whole book, I feel like this is it. Sure, the book will need some editing, but at least I got my writing style down and that's very important.

This is so exciting!

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B.R Cuellar

Jan 8, 2019 at 4:23pm

It seems like I don't have access to the link "Access Restricted" :(

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Jan 8, 2019 at 4:40pm

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Jan 8, 2019 at 7:28pm

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B.R Cuellar

Oct 25, 2017 at 10:41am

I just sent out the first chapter of my book and I am getting nervous.

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B.R Cuellar

Jun 22, 2017 at 1:35pm

So, I finally started writing again (YAY!) and I was reading my notes and rough draft yesterday when I came across with a dilemma. One of my supporting characters is completely useless. He has no purpose. I was going to delete him; however, there is a high count of female characters than male characters and I do not want that. So then I thought, maybe change one of the female characters into a male, but if I do that then I have a serious number of changes to work on for my book series. This is a 10-year project for me so that is a big change. So my question to everyone is:

Has anyone dealt with this sort of dilemma? Where did you need to change or delete a character?

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Jade Amber Jewel

Apr 3, 2017 at 2:41pm • Edited

Hi Renwordsmith! I'm Jade Amber and I'm just dropping by to say Welcome to WDC!! I hope you enjoy your time here!

Bye!!

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~ Santa Sisco ~

Mar 28, 2017 at 7:13pm

Hi and welcome to W.Com.

Just thought I'd be first to write in your notebook!

Checkout "Invalid Item" at our public forum "Invalid Item" if you need any help.

Regards,

Sisco.

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