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Since you want medieval, this site gives a quick overview of the types of medieval swords. It's a pretty decent starting point: This site just has loads of information on ...

In general: 1. Make sure your facts are correct. 2. Write in a unique, but authentic, voice. 3. Don't allow that voice to overtake the content. 4. Research different perspectives ...

Firstly, the ! is not called an interjection. It's called an exclamation mark, exclamation point, or a bang. Exclamation points indicate exclamatory sentences, and sometimes interjections. Before you

I'm not sure what you're trying to ask. If you're asking about published books, generally the author has no say in what the cover will be like. The publisher is ...

So I guess my question is more would you be able, as a reader, to fall into the speech patterns and not focus on them? I know I would. I ...

What my problem really is is everytime I try to be subjective in the usual first-person manner, I need to point out WHY I like apples, right? No. Do you ...

Don't do sentence-by-sentence editing. Get someone else to do the proofreading. It will keep you from wanting to kill yourself and dissolve your novel in acid. But if you insist ...

My dreams rarely make sense. I envy you guys. Psh. I make them make sense, or just take things that were pretty cool and toss them into a story or ...

Dreams. Conversations. Science (Biology in particular provides a dearth of story ideas). Random ideas that shove their way into my brain uninvited (and usually in the middle of class). Don't ...

Place names are pretty easy for me, and that's because places are almost always named after a defining trait of the region, the people who live there, or a person/place/concept ...

Second person is tricky. On the one hand, you get the advantage of directly addressing the reader, which makes them immediately involved with the story. On the other hand, if ...

That is just nifty. I had no idea Word could do that. :o Alternatively, at the bottom of the new thread screen, there are spacing options. Selecting Story automatically spaces ...

I believe that is the article. It seems to have been edited and split since then. In any case, the above is a summary of the stages and archetypes outlined ...

Introduction So you're writing a novel and posting the chapters up on YWS. Chapter 1 gets plenty of glowing reviews asking for more. Chapter 2, though... It doesn't get as ...

I know you shouldn't reference Earth in Science fiction, unless you really have to. No idea where you got that idea from. Some of the best sci-fi out there takes ...