GryphonFledgling

So my NaNo this year is borrowing heavily from the Hades/Persephone myth and I am trying to name my characters accordingly. My stand-in for Pesephone is named Percival (and gets ...

Seriously, every little scrap of writing you do, write the date on it. This is a tip my mother gave me when I was in school and I sort of ...

My MO has mainly been to describe it only if it needs describing. I'd actually reverse the necessary description in your example. People know what a table looks like, so ...

I'll just give you my method for last year's NaNo. I pretty much: 1) Have an idea. Yeah... 2) Start writing on November 1. 3) About a few days in, ...

*points at Sureal and magnus's comments* What they said. I personally like italics best, but any of those ways will work.

When I get in a bind like this, I tend to turn to writing prompt sites. I can go through a lot of useless ones before I find something I ...

Actually, I very rarely describe my characters at all, but that's just my writing style. What I pretty much do is give a line or two when you first see ...

I've found that I sort of drifted into using multiple POVs without even realizing it and actually very rarely write anything of substantial length in one POV anymore. So yes, ...

You definitely can work on more than one novel at one time. Some people just don't like to. Yup, just sort of seconding what everyone else said. I'm currently working ...

Honestly, the first thing I thought of when I read the title of this thread was a literal flying electric generator... Yeah... (a version of which apparently exists! I looked ...

I see that almost everyone on YWS has lots of important characters, and I don't. And ideas on how I can have more characters? My last NaNo had two main ...

Notebook/Word writer here! *waves* I have two notebooks: my writing journal and my writing notebook. Actually, I call them both "writing notebook" but I know what I am talking about. ...

*huggles "said"* I actually use more of your "sometimes" category more often than your "less often" category... Interesting... When I write, my teacher always told us to use 'said' as ...

Sweet. I like this test. I'm a little confused about the breakdown of the score though... For my two main characters... Red: Score Breakdown I Love Him, I Let Him ...

Thanks everyone! Rubric: Do you feel that it makes your writing heavy handed? I don't think so and I haven't had complaints from people who've read the first draft, so ...