Cassandra

So, how do you all go about picking a tense to write in? Do you usually just end up writing in the tense you're most comfortable with, or do you ...

Hooray for cookies of love! This was an excellent article. I'm thinking it should be made into some sort of contract, so that when you create an account with the ...

Thank you for this! I knew that saying a person was laying on the ground was wrong, but never knew why! Now I do. :D

Thanks for the links, Sureal! If I ever manage to edit any of my short stories to my liking, I might send some off, and this will be so helpful. ...

I know what you mean as far as posting goes--I'm terrified to post anything from any sort of novel I'm working on, because A) What if I don't finish it/neglect ...

Congrats, Snoink! I can't even begin to imagine how good that feeling must be. :D

This is so incredibly helpful--thankyou! I'm adding this page to my favorites. :D

Mostly, if I start to read something, I'm going to finish it and crit it. Because for me, I don't waste my time reading something that I don't want to ...

I believe Trident is talking about this: Pretty handy, no? But really, going on what trident said, you don't have to say "he said" after every line of dialouge. You ...

Or.... You could just use said. Because it's all pretty and sparkly like that. Too many substitutes make stuff sound forced, me thinks. ;)

5.) Don't stress it! Don't rush it! Do not have a fit over it. Seriously, it's not life or death, take a few days break. There is nothing worse for ...

"Hey, I've been there too and I wrote this one really sucky story that tried to use the same thing." Except then you'd, you know, be calling their story sucky ...

Don't worry too much about the beginning, as you will probably end up changing it later. Example? I was about 20k into my non-nano novel, decided I hated the beginning, ...

I really hate editing my work, because there's no fun in it! Anyone else feel the same way? RR* Really? That's funny, because I usually love to make my stuff ...

2. A serious response to a poem does not include or consist solely of any of the following phrases: "this was so awsum i could totaly relat to this! keep ...