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Music is good for inspiration as well as relaxation. ;) When it comes to inspiration, find any artist you like (or a new one you think you might like) and ...

I echo Sureal's thing about letting the story settle for a while. Also, when I edit a long project of mine, I kept another blank document in Microsoft Word open ...

Excellent advice, Tiff! Especially the part about waiting for a couple of days, until you can kind of seperate yourself from the writing a bit to analyze it better. I ...

I did find this helpful. But, are there no negatives to the Collective Villian type? The fact that you have so many more antagonists to characterize would be one, I ...

GryphonFledgling's right, there's no hard and fast rule to description. It depends on the author. In action scenes, I generally avoid a lot of "description" and focus more on the ...

You mean third person present tense? I suppose it would by fine, yes, as long as (like Rosey said) you don't lapse into 'She does this' over and over again. ...

For Thorn, since it's so obviously from nature originally and not used solely for a certain book, you should be fine to use it. ^^ However, with Murtagh, people can't ...

Mm, I like Demitri and Kellan, maybe Adam. Sebastian is sort of over-used, I think, although it's supposed to be rare, and Bastian sounds too much like an unkind name. ...

Well, I pronounced 'Circe' like Sears, but with the 'c' sound instead of the s. So, I just kept the 'e' silent. I'm not too crazy about Cirece-Dircy as a ...

Yep! I understand exactly what you mean; that question confuses me a lot, too. :wink: But I've got to agree with Rosey. While it's true that the narrator with always ...

xD Cake works, I guess. But I think Snoink was referring more to making him vulnerable by being attatched to something-- whether it be a person, and animal, or an ...

I agree with Twit-- my 8-year-old cousin uses pretty mature phrases and thoughts, just she says 'I brung the music' and stuff like that. ;) They don't always know the ...

I think the best way to avoid a cliched/cheesy plot would be to make sure your characters are quirky, original, and captivating. The eccentric bus-driver seems good-- make sure to ...

Agreed. Cliches in plots don't bother me as much, because we don't get to know the plot. We're relating to the characters, and as long as their view on the ...

One major problem I often see in the writing here at YWS is the use of commas and semi-colons. I find myself constantly giving example sentences critique after critique, but ...