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  • Research Re: Story Starting Problems

    How about starting with Brianna's kidnapping?

    Jul 26, 2016
  • Research Re: awesome creatures and magic

    Have you tried looking at some medieval bestiaries? There's a lot of really weird and fantastic creatures catalogued in them. Here's one online:

    Jul 26, 2016
  • Research Re: Old-timey Mapmaking?

    Also, if you're lucky, your local library may have books on how to survey land specifically for mapmaking. If you're super lucky, they'll be ones written during the late 1800s ...

    Jul 26, 2016
  • Research Re: Help me not screw up my Vampire/Human Romance

    It will ultimately come down to the execution in the end (because sometimes things slip in unintentionally that work against your intentions in writing the story; see Twilight for an ...

    Jul 18, 2016
  • Research Re: Help me not screw up my Vampire/Human Romance

    Well, there's tropes and cliches about vampires, and then there's tropes and cliches about romance. Tropes and cliches aren't inherently bad in-and-of-themselves, but how you handle them really impact

    Jul 18, 2016
  • Writers Corner Re: Casting for Book Characters

    Just to reiterate though, you can have a thread in this forum devoted to the fun extras, like cast lists, for your project. Project threads can be used for a ...

    Jul 16, 2016
  • Writers Corner Re: Help me with my query?

    The main issue I see with the second draft is that, despite the story being told from two perspectives, the pitch is all about Molly. I think it would better ...

    Jul 16, 2016
  • Writers Corner Re: Coming up with a title for a fantasy novel.

    Unless, like Tenyo mentioned, this is just one book in a series, the two-part title is a bit much. Even as part of a series, the titles feel a bit ...

    Jul 4, 2016
  • Writing Tips Re: Sticking with a Project

    You can also jump around within a project, especially if you're looking at a series. The main trade-off here is that finishing anything takes a long time, but I've found ...

    Jul 4, 2016
  • Writers Corner Re: Need Beta Readers

    Before I commit to anything, I do have a few questions. What's the length wordcount-wise? Page length can vary a lot based on formatting, so wordcount is a bit more ...

    Jun 20, 2016
  • Writers Corner Re: Advice Needed!

    I'm a biiiiiit late in replying (I hope you don't mind), but I will say that it's really difficult to answer your first question concretely. It really depends on the ...

    Jun 17, 2016
  • Writers Corner Re: Need Beta Readers

    Are you still looking for betas for this?

    Jun 17, 2016
  • Writers Corner Re: Need some writers love on tumblr!!

    I'm just going to drop a clickable link here so that people can more easily check your tumblr out. In the future, you can use the URL tags to make ...

    Jun 17, 2016
  • Writing Tips Re: The Food Chain Method- Finding the essentials

    I think it's a pretty neat approach, though I do have some questions on the intricacies. How do you deal with things that have only one or two important connections ...

    Jun 17, 2016
  • Writing Tutorials Re: Reading Awful Books Improves Writing

    I disagree, mainly because knowing that something is bad is different from knowing why and how it is bad. To use a food analogy, anyone can taste a dish and ...

    Jun 17, 2016


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