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  • Writing Gooder Re: WG Summer Book Club

    I believe Sundays currently only have two posts going up, which makes them a prime candidate for Book Club Day (along with Tuesday, Thursday, or Friday). But I like the ...

    Mar 10, 2013
  • Lounge, The Re: YWS Screencaps

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    Mar 10, 2013
  • Research Re: How to make cliche stories unique?

    One of the easiest ways to breathe new life into cliche stories is to justify your cliches. Basically, give them a reason in-story for happening in the cliche way instead ...

    Mar 9, 2013
  • Questions and Answers Re: Help with posting a story, please..

    There's no easy way to do so right now, though you can use the Source editor to embed images. The code for that is: So, if I wanted to link ...

    Mar 9, 2013
  • Writers Corner Re: The Language Guru

    if you guys want a something that's also fun to look at when approaching Language Creation - I recommend the Language Construction Kit by Mark Rosenfelder. That's something that helped ...

    Mar 8, 2013
  • Research Archives Re: Describe a Wolf

    Well, to be perfectly honest, I think your description is too purple. Think about it. You've got an aggressive wolf obviously angry and headed towards you. Are you really going ...

    Mar 8, 2013
  • Research Re: Help! Need creative thinkers!

    Is there any reason why he can't be a Fed who also happens to be a writer? And that he gets his information firsthand from working on those cases?

    Mar 8, 2013
  • Research Re: Help! Need creative thinkers!

    Perhaps he's a relative of one of the officers working the case, and the officer tells him about all those little details?

    Mar 8, 2013
  • Information Desk Archive Re: Report a site bug

    Seconding what nite said with respect to WFP. Also, portfolios break if you have nothing publicly visible in the Unsorted folder.

    Mar 6, 2013
  • Archive Re: Story book commitment?

    Some people are mad multitasking beasts when it comes to SBing and can make regular, quality posts in like ten SBs at a time. Others, not so much. It all ...

    Mar 6, 2013
  • Lounge, The Re: Is anyone old enough to remember.....

    Anybody remember pulling the cartridges out and blowing on them whenever the game glitched? It's still my first reaction to a game refusing to play. Assuming it's not a disk. ...

    Mar 5, 2013
  • Lounge, The Re: The avvie war

    Moved to The Lounge. :P

    Mar 5, 2013
  • Questions and Answers Re: Posting?

    The posts you make in the literary section aren't counted in the posts count, since your posts count just counts how many forum posts you have. They're different sections of ...

    Mar 4, 2013
  • Research Archives Re: Struggling with a scene

    Instead of focusing on the surgery, you can focus on the doctor's emotions. For example, his frustration at not having morphine, the pain he feels putting his friend through the ...

    Mar 2, 2013
  • Research Re: How many pages should a chapter be?

    Short answer: as long or as short as needed. There's no such thing as a page requirement for chapters. You don't even need chapters, though they acts as signals to ...

    Mar 1, 2013


We think in generalities, but we live in details.
— Alfred North Whitehead