FaulknerCannes

It's me. It's okay. I forgive you.

Definitely Slytherin.

Should new writers refer to a dictionary while writing? I mean, should we just use words we know in our limited vocabulary, or look up the dictionary for big words ...

Not really. When I was young, I remember loving movies more than books. If anything, I've never liked reading at all, and even now, I'm afraid things stayed largely the ...

I was looking for a forum to post my stories at, and I wasn't really expecting much... That's as much as I could remember, actually, considering that I've always had ...

Yep. 'Coz I'm bored.

I pasted an edited portion of my first draft and got "Cory Doctorow". Not sure who that is, but he seems to have written science fiction, which makes sense since ...

I once wrote a spectacular piece of prose that I really liked back in the day. It certainly could use a lot of editing and toning down on the pretentiousness, ...

I'd just like to say that you're pretty much disregarding the fact that second drafts exist. Maybe planning allows a little more consistency in your first draft, but the truth ...

I'm guessing getting Dan Brown isn't a good thing. Oh well, at least it fits with my writing quality then. :P

I posted my first draft and analyzed it. The result came up as being compared to Dan Brown. I had a good laugh. "The guy who wrote "Angels and Demons" ...

(*Yes, there are exceptions. Some writers get their first novel published, but it is like winning the lottery. It is not the norm.) True. But damn, Stephen King's first book ...