Icaruss

I wouldn't actually worry too much about formatting and props and such. I would just write it down, make the music, and then tailor it. It's like when people want ...

Yeah, I'm aware of the labels. But that's kind of the point, isn't it? Who gets to say what's "literary" fiction and what's "commercial" fiction? Is Irvine Welsh's multiple-narrator-phonetically-writt

I do a lot of jumping back and forth in my stories. Most of my favorite books ("La Ciudad y los Perros", "La Casa Verde", both by Mario Vargas Llosa) ...

First of all, what the hell is a literary style? There's no styles more literary than others. Style is just the certain universe of words you use for a certain ...

What's wrong with focusing too much on dialogue? Conversations and interactions are what makes a story.

The hell with italics. Just jump around from the present, to the past, to the future, and don't even put: "John remembered", just make it a new paragraph and the ...

Writer's Blocks are frustrating, but you gotta come to terms with the fact that they happen sooner or later. I say keep writing. No matter how wrong it feels. Just ...

I always like books and stories like that... If they're well made. I mean, how many books about teenage angst are made that do not feel the least bit geniune. ...

You know, there's a great play called "The Painful Story About The Secret Love of Don José Jacinto Milanés". He is a poet who really existed, and is pretty famous ...

I really like the Niat story. Have you posted it yet, because I'd really like to read it. It sounds interesting and filled with action and adventure. Tathan sounds Sci-Fi, ...

Alright, I'll help. First of all, I like the name. Ayra. Specially if you're writing fantasy, it seems like a nice name. Sounds like it means something. But, if you're ...

Writing a libretto doesn't mean you have to write the music, but it does mean you have to come up with words that rhyme, at that would work well sung, ...

Just because they had followers who thought they were good people, that doesn't make them less evil. Sure, perspective is interesting. You could write interesting characters, making them fascinating,

I'm pretty confident I've heard that title before. It's good, but not very uncommon I guess.

Thanks for the advice. So, I actually wrote something, and the first part of the Jackie Lawton article is posted up in the non-fiction forum. Anybody want to read it?