EloquentDragon

*What she said.* I would agree, if the flashbacks are no longer adding any information to the story, feel free to leave them out. However, if you want to keep ...

True that. Stress stifles creativity. Keep in mind however, that when your writing towards a goal, you may get more stressed about writing random exercises and words than working on ...

*Has always wanted to do an editorial* I would pick a subject that hasn't been done before...what appeals to you? Either that or something controversial, like politics, but that might ...

Oh HEEEY!!! I live in these her hills! I'm actually in a very small, rural, and wierd county in Colorado...we're not on the western slope though. I do hunt there ...

So is this an original story---a completely new world, or fanfiction, one that we've seen before? Can you give me a premise....that might help. Are these people in a world ...

So you want us to reference games we know of? It would help if you told us what you're doing in it fanfiction? Are you trying to get ideas for ...

Well if you're talking about the good ol' US here... The Appalachian Mtns. are a good bet...or just outside of it. They have (in some areas) temperate/warm summers with lots ...

By happenstance would you perhaps be reffering to a wondrous little technique author's like to call....foreshadowing? Now as to how they pull it off...I have no clue. It takes a ...

Romance *shivers* (not in the least my favorite genre, heh) I might be able to be of some help, but just by general observation. I don't actually read that much ...

Okay thanks. (BTW I love wookiepedia ;p) Anyway I guess my SW story is more of a canon really? (It could exist right along the main series without interfering with ...

(It's a Star Wars fanfic, BTW) But please, I need advice. I don't read a lot of fanfic, and frankly, most of the stuff online isn't very good, so it ...

Sounds a little....uh, cheesy. Not to be mean or anything. I mean, I would have taken this story and gone comical with it but.... Sounds a bit like Warrior (cats) ...

Yeah, Twit has a good point. I've never even considered "matching" character's names---what's the point? Names should fit the character, not the other characters. Diego is okay, but it might ...

So, how do they work? Links, comments, anything apreciated. I'm trying to go past the cliche and into the truly terrifying, although perhaps not weird, just those things that go ...

We're doing this in my Lit. Analysis class, and I realized it is something that is missing from my own writing. So, how does one create tone? What is tone? ...