“Do not let what you think they think of you make you stop and question everything you are.” – Carrie Fisher (October 21st, 1956 – December 27th, 2016)
I won a competition to name the newly discovered dimensions of space. This meant we had up/down, left/right, forwards/backwards and pineapple/Camembert.
dao: ends with a royal speech in the warden’s honor, all warden’s friends come to say goodbye, the ruler of ferelden grants the warden a boon dai: ends with a party in the inquisitor’s honor, all the inquisitor’s companions come to congratulate them, the inquisitor and their love interest share a romantic scene on a private balcony da2: after five minutes of increasingly awkward silence surrounded by corpses, hawke skips town
This. This is good fiction writing advice. I really appreciate how it was formatted as “this is a common problem, here is a solution to try in your own work” and not “oh god, don’t do that!” without any extra help. And I extra appreciated the “don’t rely on adverbs” bit, because they do have their place but they aren’t the only way actions can be emphasized.