BadNarrator

well you're probably not going to want to hear it, but reading a lot and reading often are both requirements if you hope to have a career as a professional ...

37) has never been on the internet 38) speaks exclusively in rhyming couplets 39) refers to the help as "Mum" and "Papa"

I think I used to enjoy writing much more when I was a kid. I liked the novelty of being able to create worlds and thinking, feeling people on the ...

I know this post is months old but I feel I have some good advice for this type of situation because I've done the exact same thing to what I ...

something else. you mentioned that Europa contains a lot of uranium ore. this would be a poor choice as a cause of wide-spread mutation because decay of natural uranium from ...

does it absolutely have to be nuclear radiation which causes the mutations? I ask because radiation eventually dissipates over time. it would only take a few decades before radiation levels ...

it depends on what kind of woman my sister was when she was alive. if she was the typical fair-maiden you see so often in fantasy then I'd probably just ...

negative emotions. I'm a fiction writer. from my perspective in order for a story to be a story there needs to be conflict which the plot addresses in some way. ...

I think that the introverted isolated creatures bit is an unfortunate stereotype. like I said, solitude is important to writers, but that doesn't necessarily mean we are isolated. I've found ...

I agree with BlackNether that you can't show everything , not just for the sake of length, but you need to differentiate for your readers which details they need to ...

personally I don't think it's that writers lack a sense of community any more than other artists. it's just that the nature of our craft requires a certain lifestyle that ...

Thanks that was very helpful.

One of my stories was published in a literary journal and it can still be read here and a few other sites. I doubt that they know it's online, but ...

Could you school is on the process of getting a piece of creative non-fiction published. Specifically how it compares to getting a short story or a poem published in a ...

I'm not really sure I understand the problem. You are good at writing action but bad at scenes where people just do "daily things"? It sounds to me like you ...