Karsten

It's UK v US usage.

Hi Pen, First of all, there are no universal rules of writing - everyone does it differently. So be prepared for conflicting advice. The way I see it, improving as ...

Just to add to what Writersdomain said, only "Likes" made in the past 3 days count. That's clever - I hadn't realised.

There is no copyright in ideas. Nobody owns them. All stories draw on the stories that came before. Harry Potter, Star Wars, Eragon, The Wheel of Time, The Sword of ...

I've often asked that question myself. I know I'm far from being good enough for someone to copy my writing. But what about if I have an original idea and ...

I'm sorry - I don't know where napalmerski as got this information from. It is certainly not published and I am a bit upset by this. I came here for ...

Who's the publisher, SRFire? Your website doesn't say. :)

It takes more than two hours for people to read and review your work - particularly when those two hours are, for a significant proportion of YWSers, in the middle ...

Hi Explosive Pen, This was a pleasure to read. Parts of your writing are breathtaking. What I'm not seeing at the moment is the plot that drives this story forward ...

Poor dialogue punctuation makes me a grumpy Karsten. It hurts my eyes too much to overlook it.

That's just a remark on the "effectiveness" of your anti-gun laws. I don't think so. I feel perfectly safe knowing that absolutely nobody bar some police officers and the most ...

Guns and the knowledge of them are not scary things. A gun is a simple tool. Proper usage of a tool does not a frightening person make. Improper usage of ...

Anyone else frightened by Conrad's encyclopaedic knowledge of sniping? :P

Give him real flaws that have real consequences in the story, not meaningless non-flaws like being bad at drawing.

Not a gun person, but my friend's gun-nut ex told her that a Ruger mini 14 (a military-issue assault rifle) is a good rifle for an assassin - good at ...