Cadi

As you say yourself, both options have upsides! It's hard to say for certain without seeing the whole work, of course, but on a very superficial levels with what you ...

I prefer to read well-written characters, whatever their gender. Just like there's no "one right way" to be a man, there's no "one right way" to write a male character ...

I definitely suggest you check out the Writers Market forum here on YWS - it's a place where people post external contests and publishing opportunities, and there's a couple of ...

That sounds like a pretty cool idea to me - and nothing like other things I've read. In any case, I find that it's best to just write the story ...

You're welcome! The clarification on the dropping off visit rate does make sense, don't worry - and sounds quite sensible overall. I like the idea of CD-CF seeing her AB ...

Whoo, that took some brainpower to get through. Time travel is definitely one for tying your thoughts in knots. Basic first thoughts? Sounds awesome! Please write it, so I can ...

Tolkien is superduperawesome. He was a linguist more than a writer, and basically created Middle Earth because of the languages. I think he was of the opinion that without a ...

I've often heard it said that there is no such thing as an original idea. When you get right down to it, we've told all the different kinds of story, ...

Languages! Language creation is made of win. Does your language have a particular setting to go with it? That is, is it the language for a country in a novel ...

Aria's covered a lot of things already, but I figured I might as well weigh in as well! First, have you got an idea of what you want the story ...

Heyhi, Whiteh. So, there are a few things that strike me as I'm reading through this... -- If Roxanne was the one to run away, why does she not know ...

I think the best way to get to the rhythm of a poem is to read it aloud to yourself, paying extra attention to where the stresses of the words ...

If you are thinking of "the introduction" as "the bit where I dump all the information about the character that you need to know for the rest", then you're probably ...

Man, I have notebooks stuffed full of ideas I never took anywhere. From fleshed-out stories that eventually got abandoned, to single lines of dialogue with nowhere to live. I'll stick ...