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Originally Posted by Rinny
First or third person perspective?
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It depends on what you are trying to achieve. Third person gives the narrator emotional distance and the ability to make judgements or encourage the readers to. First person engages the reader more personally, but it makes adding in the omniscient voice (for narrative or descriptive reasons) more complicated. I think you need to determine what you are trying to achieve with the novel and then consider how the voice could be used to further those goals.
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Character developement? Action? Blood and gore? Love and romance?
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All of the above except blood and gore.
Fiction.
[quote=Hero or anti-hero?]It doesn't really matter as long as the person is three-dimensional. Actually, two dimensional is fine too, if you are making a statement in the story by having him/her be so. Anti-heroes are a bit easier to make interesting because the story more or less automatically puts them into conflict with themselves.
Intellent humour and a little irony. Satire is good too. Sarcasm is a little cheap for my tastes.
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Modern, futuristic or historical?
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Again, any of the three if you can make your setting rich and your story compelling. If forced to choose, I would pick historical.