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How do you find a title? Share your thoughts here and put up some random titles that people could take inspiration from. I was listening to a radio show the ...

Serendipity, suffocation, symbiotic, sandbank, salsa, saffron, sabbatical, sine (as in trigonometry)... There must be many more (Squishy's list is near-exhaustive!), but these are the first few I thou

First Names: Alexander Alexandra Anton Claire Darius Dominic Gilbert Ian Isla James Jack Jason John Leonard Lloyd Max/Maxine Michael Nicholas Nicola Randall Robert Rosanna Ross Rufus Russell/Russ Sara

Hey Wordsmith! Welcome from drizzly England! Just thought I'd get that out of the way. Right: I'm all for both. Giving tips betters the writing community in general and gets ...

What did Big Brother say? Please use correct spelling, punctuation and grammar: this is a writers' site.

Do an activity/exercise each session at the start. It's a good way to warm up those creative fires! Also: ADVERTISING. Word-of-mouth, school newsletter, loudhailer announcement, I don't care. Just rec

Birdsong , Sebastian Faulks Atonement , Ian McEwan The Collector , John Fowles And Then There Were None , Agatha Christie

Go to a match! Or see one on the telly. The more you expose yourself to the subject matter, the better.

We have characters in narratives because they are conventions used to help tell the story on the whole? Yeah, to some extent, but in my opinion they enrich the story ...

If you can't get attached to your characters (in other words, live, breathe and feel them), then they won't manifest themselves as living. breathing and feeling entities. So yes, getting ...

Make sure everything comes through the prism of your protagonist's POV. This influence can lead to some humorous asides: "My tutor called herself the Eternal Ruler of the Universe, although ...

Great. Now can we get back on topic? If you have any other bones of contention, please PM. Thanks.

Yes, agree with Firearris: a fractured narrative like this would be far more suspenseful and generate greater interest.

Literary fiction = placing compelling character development above a compelling plot. Commercial fiction = the opposite. See Wikipedia:

Hope that helps! Explicit language warning.