Icaruss

Last Night Tonight One Act Play Stage is completely dark. A voice is heard: CORMAC: Can I get a drink over here? Lights up. It’s a small place, in the ...

You can do whatever you want, really. It's your story. Just make sure the reader understand. The reader doesn't mind you being mean to him as long as it all ...

policeman came out of the blue (no pun intended) here and I don't think it matches the tone of the piece. 'cop' would do better. You speak the truth. Both ...

Quentin Tarantino: meandering conversations, hard-boiled criminals talking like real people. Irvine Welsh: multiple perspectives, people narrating like they're talking to you. Ernest Hemingway: really

You know when you're writing a lot? And you're excited? And you write like fifty pages in a day? And you're sweating and typing like crazy and tackling every plot ...

Oh, this made me sad. Not the story. Not the characters or the situation. It made me sad because it began with such promise. It drew you in instantly. The ...

Bad Weather . Rain. It is cold but not as cold as it used to be. The car is shrinking by the minute, getting more uncomfortable, I can’t breathe. I ...

Finishing a story, obviously. Everything else is a pain in the butt. Coming up with an idea is also pretty cool.

1.Total number of books you own? Like, thirty-something. 2.What was the last book you bought? The script from the movie "Dioses." But that was just to see a movie script ...

It'd be nice to think that I'm the cool, rebel writer that sits down and writes whatever comes to mind, but it's hard for me to finish anything remotely good ...

I just choose the most mundane names possible. Anything exotic sounds exotic. When has anybody ever met anybody named Avellina or Xerxes? Unless I wanna make a point (like people ...

Do a story outline. No, no, no, wait. I have a better idea. Usually, these ideas come with a cool scene already thought out. So, write out that scene. You ...

This is total crap. Language is what people make of it, it's not really fair to impose. You can tell people, hey, you're doing it wrong but banning them is ...

Doesn't posting your story by chapters defeat the whole purpose of the Advanced Critiques section?

And how can someone be a half-dragon anyways? Aren't dragons really big? How can a woman have sex with a dragon? That's impossible, not to mention quite perverted.