Emerson

My suggestion: don't write a prologue at all. If you're writing a scene that is way before your actual narrative, right in the middle, or at the end, consider whether ...

There's an inexpensive laptop called the AlphaSmart. AlphaSmarts aren't exactly laptops though, and I'm sure if she's looking for a laptop she's looking for an actual computer, not just one ...

My novel is set in England 1930, but they're not too far off. I may, however, be covering a completely different social structure than you. Perhaps if you have some ...

The first step in trying to get published is editing. Honestly. Spend as much time as possible making your novel as good as it possibly can be. You don't want ...

If on a Winter Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino. Most amazing novel in second person since forever! I adore it.

I think when s/he says accent they mean that is the stress, right? ay/eh-lan. Like "land" without the D. To me "ay' and "eh" sound almost the same except the ...

Hello there! Please don't post threads with letters that are in all caps LIKE THIS because it is annoying, and hurts peoples eyes, and simply not cool. So I fixed ...

Let it come out in a flow, gently and calmly or all at once when it is necessary. Look at the books you read, and see how it is done ...

Except the witch trials [of Salem, not counting those before it] were in the 1600s. When I get home I'll try to find something for you. :)

mmm I have much anticipation in my breast, if you will. :P Although perhaps it would hav ebeen better to make this decision sooner to Oct 1 than Nov 1. ...

See, the thing is, "Any information" is so vague when given such a large time period. I could talk about the civil war in America, or Oscar Wilde in England, ...

I'm not sure how definitively this can be answered, but I was curious: what is the purpose behind breaking a novel into books, parts, or sections? Beyond chapters, that is. ...

Ah, Publish America? :D They're not trust worthy anyway. I'm sorry to hear you got sucked into their vortex of lies! I'd rather be rejected by them anyway. You said ...

Hmmm I'm not sure if this is the right place but at the same time I'm not sure where it would go! Oh, I'll just move it to writer's corner, ...

How to Pick a Lock, at :D