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JFW1415

  • Writing Tips Re: Dialogue Grammar

    Wow, this is REALLY old but I felt like adding this, since it bugs me to no end. When someone new speaks, ADD A NEW PARAGRAPH. This: "Well, John, what ...

    Mar 2, 2008
  • Writing Tips Re: Tips on Drawing a Map for My Novel

    It didn't let me post the bottom half, so here is the bottom of Amora! (Still don't know how this darned file attatchment works...)

    Mar 1, 2008
  • Writing Tips Re: Tips on Drawing a Map for My Novel

    Here's the one I did the other day (well, last night and this morning,) on the country/state(?) that's been taking over my mind for the past few years. (GAH.) It ...

    Mar 1, 2008
  • Writing Tips Re: Making Up Words

    If she is like a walking dictionary, I assume she is smart. Making up words, in my opinion, makes her seem more juvenile. I'm not sure, just somebody walking around ...

    Feb 29, 2008
  • Writing Tips Re: What Is Your Favorite Writing Tip?

    I never recieved this tip, but it is what I live by and it works wonders. Just write a whole chapter, no matter how terrible or short it is. Then ...

    Jan 1, 2008
  • Writing Tips Re: Um... (peeking over shoulder)

    I LOVE password protects. When I was younger (Much younger) I would look at my brothers stuff, so this is very important. :P I use the same one for all ...

    Nov 10, 2007
  • Writing Tips Re: Description- describing facial expressions

    I usually talk to myself in a mirror, and watch how I change my face. I only do this when my character in in an emotional situation, though. (With someone ...

    Nov 10, 2007
  • Writing Tips Re: Names

    That's were I go. It's for names in the USA, though, so if your character is from Japan or something, I can't help you. (The only name I know from ...

    Nov 10, 2007
  • Writing Tips Re: Whats a good length for a chapter?

    It depends. In Holes , the chapters were about half a page long. In Harry Potter , they were about ten pages long (if I remember correctly.) They were both ...

    Nov 10, 2007
  • Writing Tips Re: Tips to Creating an Ending

    I can not plan ahead, no matter how hard I try. On a story I just wrote, I made myself write without erasing anything. In the beginning, the two girls ...

    Nov 10, 2007
  • Writing Tips Re: Curious about ' 's

    What if the original word ends in an 's'? That is the only version that confuses me. Like in this case: The lass's dog. In all forms: if there is ...

    Nov 10, 2007
  • Writing Tips Re: HELP!!! WRITERS BLOCK!!

    Just pick a random sentence (or word) and write. I actually have writer's block right now, so I shouldn't talk, but I did this a few months ago. I wrote ...

    Nov 10, 2007


A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
— Franz Kafka