The reason I ask is because both Hitchhiker's Guide and Jonathan Strange have "Lemony Snicket"/first-person-esque/characterized narrators, and I would like to know what makes them different. I think this belongs on Writers SE because I would like to know how to adapt or characterize various POV ...

I attend an arts school called ACES Educational Center for Arts, and this is my third year in the Creative Writing department, which has both workshops and taught classes. I have written lots of material and developed both reading and writing skills as a result of this school and its community. I...

:) I am a woman and I wrote a book out of the perspective of a guy. Basically his best friend tells him she want to kill herself. So he writes her a diary (addressed to her kind of like a letter) about everything they do together to give it to her in the end and maybe make her feel better. Now ...

Is there a general name for poetic forms that consist entirely of pairs of rhymed lines, i.e. where the rhyme scheme goes aabbccdd..., and the rhyming lines do not necessarily have the same meter. For example: https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/prisoner-zenda I vaguely remember once coming acr...

I was recently taught about the Hero-Journey template Instead of the Hero leaving the Ordinary World, can they remain and the Ordinary World changes and/or warps (possibly along with the Hero)? And what if I absolutely do not want an Ordinary World; could I omit the Ordinary World completely or ...

I am currently reading Dr. Alia Al-Saji's paper on Racialized Time titled "Too Late: Racialized Time and the Closure of the Past". http://philpapers.org/archive/ALSTLR.pdf Throughout the text, she seems to cite in a format that I do not recognize. She writes '(pp. 112/90-1)' for example. Could...