J. Wilder

Maybe a hotel manager for one of the international chains?

I thought 5'9" was average height for a guy. I'm sure it depends on the country, though. Anyway in my group of friends we refer to any guy 5'7" or ...

You need to remember that being a pirate isn't something that people envied (despite what pirates of the caribbean say, very few dreamed about them) they were hated, hunted and ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

I think it's true to some degree, but of course not completely (i.e. the dragons and spells). I think it's probably a bad idea to write about people who are ...

I edit A LOT as I go. I reread my own writing constantly. I never write short stories or poetry, only novels, and I don't write that often anymore, so ...

I think you can actually approach both at the same time. Here's why: If you get an agent, you'll still need a publisher, and if you get a publisher, you'll ...

I find it odd that in the poll more people said they write from the perspective of the opposite sex than their own. I guess it's related to the fact ...

Why is it you can't set it in America if that would be easier? People partied just as much during Prohibition as they did before and after, right?

A lot of things on the Mary-Sue Litmus Test are funny cliches.