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  • 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
  • Research Re: Publishing and Translating?

    The cheapest way to do it would be to do it all yourself. It's also the most work, but learning other languages is a very useful life skill! Though I ...

    Jun 1, 2016
  • Writing Tips Re: What is a StoryBible?

    I use a mixture of Evernote and a massive Word/Google document. Evernote has a lot of useful features like folders and tagging, so that's where all my notes go, especially ...

    May 15, 2016
  • Writing Tips Re: Using Made-Up Languages

    I'm late to the feedback party, but since no one else has covered this, I figure I may as well toss in my two cents. And I'm going to start ...

    May 15, 2016
  • Writing Tips Re: Name for Supercomputer

    So why can't the supercomputer be named Muspell? Why does the name have to be an acronym? While acronyms are a common naming convention in computer science, not everything is ...

    May 15, 2016


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