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Evolution says that life began as a chance combination of non-living chemicals. Except that's not what evolution is about. At all. How many times does someone have to point out ...

Late to the party, but this sounds really cool.

Because the post preview and actual forum posts sometimes appear differently. This is just the list tag without bullet points. It appears indented in the preview. [consistent] This is the ...

And thus did my ego suffer a most rude deflation. RIP ego. You'll grow back.

There's also dialogue. If your characters are strong enough, you won't need tags to indicate that X character is talking because your readers will have picked up on the character's ...

Something no one else has addressed that I think also needs addressing is to know your genre and its conventions. Let's take Megrim's example of a gripping first-liner, a la ...

All stories sound cliche once you strip them down to the barest basics. People have been telling stories since time immemorial, and so while the trappings may change, there's very ...

I've had my eye on this thread for a while, but it's only now that I've had time to properly respond to it. So here we go. First off: calling ...

How much planning do you do before you start writing? Some people get bored because they do too much planning and already know how everything will go, so there's no ...

It looks pretty standard, though you're missing a comma after "the rightful heir" and the "approach" should be an "approaches".

In English, every complete thought has at least one subject and one verb. Simple sentences are thus broken up into two main parts: the subject, which is everything before the ...

Just be careful that you don't have too many distinguishable parallels between your sources of inspiration and your own work. Tropes and cliches are par for the course, but particular ...

I'm the exact opposite of a planner, but I find that working on a different aspect of the writing often leads me to figure out a lot of the things ...

That summary is pretty confusing, and I'm wondering what you're looking for feedback on. Do you want help improving the summary to make it more interesting, or are you asking ...

I think the trickiest part to overcome in your case is how the pantheon fits in with history since you're writing a contemporary fantasy. A big question your readers will ...