J. Wilder

The "Golden Age" of piracy was in the later half of the 1600s and the first couple decades of the 1700s. especially 1715-1725. You should read some nonfiction books about ...

Same here if you're still working on it.

It doesn't cause hallucinations (except maybe absinthe). This thread might help. [quote=Mars]How aware should he be? Does the mind play tricks? Would he be able to speak understandably?[/quote] A lot ...

Thanks for the response; it's good to know that the novel could be potentially interesting without some totally major adventure plot. However I'm starting to think of one. This is ...

Why not make one up? If you write about a real one then you have to research all sorts of stuff about it.

Sadly I already have come up with the character but still no specific plot comes to mind. (I really suck with plots.) She's for sure from the city (right now ...

I want to write a novel about a city kid (probably a girl, but not sure yet) who goes to work on a dude ranch. But as usual I need ...

I’ve lived in the U.S. all my life and used to live in New York City (specifically Flatbush, Brooklyn.) About the whole fast-paced thing: That’s definitely true in most of ...

I'm always up for getting a critique, thanks.

This document does a great job of explaining format. This site has a ton of columns by Terry Rosio (who cowrote a lot of famous movies like Pirates of the ...

This is really long and the paragraphs aren't separated with a line in between each one so if you fix that you'll probably get more critiques. I totally didn't think ...

The showing-not-telling thing is true although I didn't think of it until I read the other critiques. You kind of hit us over the head with the socialite-society thing, but ...

Anyone else not keep a notebook? I just opened my drawer and apparently I have three, but they are all basically empty. (One of them just has a bunch of ...

This is a pretty long post so I didn't read the whole thing because I'm tired. What I did read held my attention enough. The only major problem I noticed ...