JC

I've seen a lot of people around here saying that they either wouldn't let their parents read their work, or they have to change what they've written in order for ...

Yeah, the whole parental thing brings up a lot of issues for people. Like I said, I didn't let my mom read things, until I wanted to get published, and ...

I mostly agree with what everybody's saying. With the exception of planning ahead. Which can be helpful, but it depends on your style of writing. See, I don't plan ahead, ...

I learned this the hard way, but if you're planning to write something, DO THE RESEARCH (before!). I figured that with POD, because it was so...real life, that I didn't ...

So, for those of you who know the current book I'm working on is called Philosophy of the Dark. I'd give a summery, but it would include spoilers for those ...

I've been through the same thing. Query letters are a...(b word) to make. I sent out a few to some editors, none of whom replied with any good news...i.e rejection. ...

It depends on the story for me. I mean, on most of my other stuff I haven't had chapter titles or anything, but on POD I have, mostly because of ...

Okay, because of one of my short stories succes, I've though about making a kind of sequal. But for those of you who have read Enough to Live, you know ...

Yeah, me too...but maybe because I learned the american way...who knows. But I've read some stuff where it was different, and it just seemed...empty! I didn't like it as much, ...

While most of us know what to do with double quotation marks, you know, dialogue, it's single quotation marks that confuse us. Single quotation marks can be used with dialogue ...

Thanks! That's awesome to hear =D

Okay, we've all done it. Started a story that was supposed to be really good, got really hyped about it, daydreamed about the day it would get published, who would ...

Well, what's the time period like? What's she like, all those kinds of things can help you find the perfect name. Or you can go to the 2000 names thing ...

We were giving advice, you know, for the future, please don't be angry about it.

Please, as a future warning, don't post things like this, when the time comes for you to post, post then. I can guarantee that there will be enough space for ...