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Re: I want advice to start writing well before it's too late!
Yeah. It sucks to ruin a book because you spilled some whiteout.
Mar 25, 2013 -
Re: Need Some Help
If you're having doubts about how quickly things are going, that's a very strong sign that things are moving way too fast to be believable. With that said, you can ...
Mar 22, 2013 -
Re: Help me choose?
Try writing both and see which works better overall. You might even come up with a different alternative that works even better during the process.
Mar 12, 2013 -
Re: On Stoics: A General Discussion
Why must a stoic be angsty? Why must a stoic have a tragic past? Why can't a stoic just prefer not to talk to people? And why is it important ...
Mar 12, 2013 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Re: Past or Present?
If the narrative is in past tense, then you describe the statue in past tense as well. Think of it as the narrator relaying what they saw (past) to you. ...
Feb 27, 2013 -
Re: How to set up a site?
Well, keeping in the vein of free, the PHP + MySQL combination is a pretty hard one to beat when it comes to dynamic content and keeping track of user ...
Feb 23, 2013 -
Re: How to set up a site?
Before you go and spend money, research to death all possible hosting providers. There are a number of great free hosts out there that you can use to start off ...
Feb 22, 2013 -
Re: Dialogue
Well, dialogue ideally shouldn't be a disruption. It should flow naturally as part of the story. Also, not all stories need dialogue, so there's no "requirement" for dialogue. It is ...
Feb 21, 2013 -
Re: Useful Writing Clubs
Important Notes A lot of these clubs are currently inactive due to the Clubs area having been inaccessible for more than a year. Hopefully this thread will lead to the ...
Feb 14, 2013 -
Re: How to find good names?
You can just use the default settings to generate lists of random names, or you can customize the template to output names that better fit your setting. The latter is ...
Feb 14, 2013
