GryphonFledgling

I've successfully completed NaNo four years running now and yeah, I'm gonna just echo everyone else above me. Don't worry about the fact that you just wrote basically the same ...

Really, the best way you can get to know your characters is to write them. Seriously, I don't usually write notes about my characters at all. I just write them ...

Ha, I'd actually just received one of these lately and just trashed it. Didn't even think to warn YWSers in general. You are a better member than me. *fails*

I go through phases. Right now, I'm in a paper phase, where I absolutely have to have everything and anything scrawled out in my horrible handwriting. I have to physically ...

I could have written this. I don't write in any consistent way and I can never stick to plans. My biggest tip is just to keep writing. Sure, it might ...

What Kyllorac and Rosey said. Practice All of us want to write achingly beautiful things, but you have to start with the basics. Short stories are fabulous for practice because ...

I love this list, having known about it for a few years. Granted, some of the questions are to poke fun, but some of them are legitimate. And even the ...

Cool beans. *like* (cuz we can do that now...)

I actually have three notebooks (O_o) for writing and I do different things in them. 1) My little pocket notebook. I just sort of scribble things in it. One-liners, books ...

I tried a collaborative novel once and we got a few chapters into it, but it fell flat after a while. Part of it was that I personally don't like ...

I think you should mention that at the beginning of the post. I was intrigued by this, but it was very different from what I was expecting based on the ...

I had a character once who was an empath who tried to kill himself once because he was so inundated with everything that people were feeling. He didn't get any ...

*like* A thousand times *like*! The abuse of number 7 is something that drives me up the wall in speculative fiction.

Got some questions for any bird owners out there, specifically about grooming: - What, if anything, do you have to provide the bird for its personal cleanliness? - How do ...

*hugs* Thank you all so much. My brother has read Percy Jackson and is trying to get me to read them. I guess I should now. :) I'm thinking "Hayden" ...