Heidigirl666

I used to have all sorts of problems that irritated me to death when using word. Now I use Open Office and I much prefer it. My advice would be ...

Try to leave out the parts people skip.

There's no harm in looking at publishers/agents etc. However, you do need it to be absolutely perfect before you can send it out. And editing is not just about finding ...

I'm afraid that's a rather impossible question for several reasons. 1. There is no 'British dialect'. Britain has quite an amazing variety's of accents (studies have shown it changes every ...

It can be very difficult to come up with something original in a way, in that many plot lines and themes have already been covered several times over, but in ...

Definitely not a bad thing to have a third person prologue and then first person for the rest of the novel, or whatever. There are some very good published authors ...

I submitted part of my novel to a literary agent a while ago, and haven't heard anything in about five weeks. I know they're probably just really busy (and secretly ...

It's natural to start to detest your writing, especially if you've spent a very long time on it. You have two options; rewrite it and see if it gets better, ...

It's got quite big grounds, and it's pretty much surrounded by parks, on one side is St James's Park, above it is Green Park and behind it (but over a ...

Serendipity!

Blindness that isn't acquired at birth tends to be disease or injury. If it's an injury, it doesn't necessarily have to be to his eyes, it could be a head ...

1. How many children in your family? Five. 2. How old is each child? 22, 20, 17, 14, 14 3. Are your parents divorced? Nope. 5. How much money do ...

I've got a tonne; some of them probably are already here, but hopefully some won't be. Male names: Lachlan (a soft 1st 'a', almost 'o', so more like 'lokh-lin' than ...

I am entering into the sticky territory of sending off sample chapters and synopses (is that the right plural?) of my novel off to literary agents, and it is now ...

I'd suggest not using italics, unless it's so short it's only a few sentences long. I agree, it's irritating to read in italics if it's longer than a certain length. ...