Writing advice from my uni teachers:
If your dialog feels flat, rewrite the scene pretending the characters cannot at any cost say exactly what they mean. No one says “I’m mad” but they can say it in 100 other ways.
Wrote a chapter but you dislike it? Rewrite it again from memory. That way you’re only remembering the main parts and can fill in extra details. My teacher who was a playwright literally writes every single script twice because of this.
Don’t overuse metaphors, or they lose their potency. Limit yourself.
Before you write your novel, write a page of anything from your characters POV so you can get their voice right. Do this for every main character introduced.
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“Thank you for taking care of me, Max.“ “Sam, don’t…” “No, really. I wasn’t me anymore. And I never would have wanted to force you to–" “Oh, shut up about that. Nobody forced me to do anything. I’d lug you around for centuries if I had to. We’re partners, right?”
fanart or… i guess a fan comic of my favorite sam and max fic “Together Forever” ive wanted to make something for it for over a month, and i could never decide what scenes to portray so it spiraled into me spending three days on this! if you havent read it before, please check it out!!
i am his. i could be nothing better.