I’m trying to write a story about a divorced woman falling back in love, but I don’t know how to write about a divorced relationship with kids involved. Do you think you could give me some tips?

lets-get-fictional: Thank you for your question, love!  Sorry for the holiday break, but hopefully this advice still applies to your WIP 🙂 A bit of a foreword on this: my authority on the topic, so to speak, comes both from reading and from experience.  There have been upwards of 10 divorces among my living family…

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Writing a bilingual character: tips

phoenixtcm: (This is from my own personal experience as a Chinese person who’s better at English, my “first” language, than Chinese, my “second” language.) When your character is going speak unintentionally in their second language instead of their first one: • When they’re tired, they could slip up and accidentally start a sentence with their…

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wildlyannoyingdoofus: dexer-von-dexer: stem-stims: Physics: More pencil tricks Source i.e. why when you or someone else gets stabbed or impaled, you should leave the object in the wound until medical help arrives. THIS. RIGHT HERE. This is an amazing example!! If you take the thing out, they’re going to bleed a lot more. SO. DONT. News…

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