Caligula's Launderette

Certain Twilights: A Mix for YWS This is really dedicated to Nate, and in conjecture Big Brother because hey, we would not have YWS without them, and as such deserve ...

SQUEE! This one started because I couldn't get the fabulous Josh Groban and how some of his songs connected with Lecraesa out of my head and thought why not. I ...

Edit, Sept 14 -- Things are fixed. YAY! Changed the zip upload to mediafire. Ta, Cal. So, I got bored again and made another mix for Dreamy [DreamDeep], the first ...

I think outlining is all about what works for you. Though, I'm not the outlining type. For sure, you use the formulaic outlining chart like this: [pre]I. MAIN IDEA A. ...

Wonderful writing tips, Misty. :D I love your point about resources, because there are so people people I have come across who don't understand how to use them, or what ...

Cal's Hyde Park Corner Soapbox The Business 1. Pitch. You must consider the emotional investment you put into writing. There are all sorts of metaphors about a piece of writing ...

Cal's Hyde Park Corner Soapbox The Grit 1. The Way of Words Syntax, the dictionary defines it as a noun, the grammatical arrangement of words in sentences. One of the ...

Cal's Hyde Park Corner Soapbox The Characters 1. Dynamics So, here’s the lowdown on group dynamics: each person added to the group changes the dynamic. A conversation between people changes ...

Cal's Hyde Park Corner Soapbox Thought I'd sit down for a spell and talk about things, or stand up on my soapbox and have some discourse about one my favorite ...

Cal’s Soapbox: On Fantasy and Science Fiction [Brought to by Fantasy Fools ] […with a little help from the Good Doctor Lyn] “Fiction is life with the airspace taken out.” ...

Hiya and welcome to YWS, Katharsis. If there's anything I despise, it's the preconception that some people have - that the elves in their story are self-evidently Tolkien-esque elves. Describe ...

Welcome, Nina. You may want to check out the number of Fantasy Usergroups here on YWS, such as Fantasy Fools, and Fantastic World Builders, and Fantasy Creatures. If you have ...

Hello Flying Dream, I've cobbled together tutorials and writing tips by me and other YWS-ers which go into detail on how to develop or make your characters more real. Five ...

I wrote a tutorial about descriptive writing, which you can find here: Histrionics: Description & Descriptive Writing I think everyone has their own style and thus how they go about ...

Your welcome, hon. I was reading over Chapter 4 and I realized how much 09. Flathead by The Fratellis is from Gietan's POV about Sophie. :D Ta, Cal.