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Use Outlines and Flexible Writing Guides
- When overwhelmed after brainstorming, create unifying basic structures like an outline for your novel.
- Use writing books as toolkits for exercises, not rigid rules, to enhance creativity and structure.
Balancing Tense and Perspective
- Past tense suits traditional storytelling but present tense could add immediacy for action genres like sword and sorcery.
- Limited third person offers intimacy; omniscient perspective provides flexibility to show broader viewpoints when needed.
Varying Perspectives in Stories
- Using multiple limited third person perspectives diversifies narrative voices and avoids sameness in a short story cycle.
- Jumping perspectives too frequently within a story risks feeling like TV adaptation writing rather than prose.