KaiTheGreater

Names with secret foreign meanings are cool! (Except I first read it as Moria=LotR)

I think style can have a lot to do with it. Some writers prefer eloquent, flowing description, whereas others will tell you to leave out any description entirely to keep ...

If anyone has cat-specific questions, I can probably help. I'm not super informed on all the technical stuff, but I was raised among cats (that sounded weird), and I've volunteered ...

Okay, thanks for the advice! :)

Bleh. I knew someone was going to have to point that out... Would it have been any less awesome if it hadn't been the first? It's not the fact that ...

I agree about the first part. That was just to illustrate my point. About the second part- I didn't mean actual real people. I just meant realistic people. Although I ...

The people above me have said you shouldn't use the mirror scene, and I think they're generally right. Mirror scenes are very cliche, and I often find myself groaning in ...

Hello there, YWS! :) I’d like to address a situation that I’ve noticed a lot around here- cliché stories. Lots of newer writers often feel discouraged because the only storylines ...

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Thank you, Tenyo! :)

...Okay, so if I had to say my stories have themes, I think most of them would be something to the effect of, "Home is a terrible place to be, ...

What is a theme, anyway? .-.

My English teacher recently brought up something that I've never really thought about before. He said that every story has some kind of theme in it. I've never consciously used ...

Start writing about the characters. Just every-day life stuff. Then have something unexpected happen, like somebody dies or reveals a terrible secret or gets a new best friend. Write about ...

The rules say two requests every few days... Does that mean per person or per work?