Karsten

Yeah, I'm thinking a fade to black might be appropriate here. Just imply that whatever happened, it was bad. Readers will fill in the blanks according to their level of ...

Traumatic brain injuries are very unpredictable. (The word "concussion" sounds so much less scary than "brain violently slammed into skull causing traumatic injury".) A friend of mine is still sufferi

I rather like it. Plenty of Welsh names end -wn: Annwn , for instance - probably because the letter w is a vowel in Welsh. edit: I'd pronounce it Gare-wen ...

I'm not saying that no one has ever had characters that stand out, I myself do. But I also have reasons for their standing out eg. they are a demigod ...

You have a point, I do this as well but I guess it's because the character has to have a reason to stand out, to make the story and usually ...

Not a huge fan of protagonists who look like lingerie models. It's unrealistic, shameless wish-fulfilment and horribly overdone, and it also feeds into the teeth-grating Beauty Equals Goodness theme:

I'd go with Karsten's advice actually :D :wink: Ideas are ten a penny. The discipline to see something through to the end? Much rarer. I think it's tempting for a ...

Backside on chair. Hands on keyboard. Stay there (with appropriate gaps for sleeping, eating, going to school, etc) until you reach the end of the novel.

I think the problem here is that you've taken the genre of epic fantasy, but then reclassified the really good ones (like Martin) as something else to support your central ...

I'm wondering if there is such a thing as a paranormal romance in which a human boy falls for a female supernatural character. I don't see many of those around ...

TV Tropes' Speculative Fiction Tropes . The one cliche that annoys me the most is the "Orphan Who's Secretly A Wizard/Princess/Spy." *confetti* All of these characters have mysterious pasts, parents ...

Paranormal romance is very far from a rare subgenre - it's enormously popular and selling very well at the moment. It's a sister of urban fantasy. Both genres are set ...

Before I write, I plan. One-line hook. One-paragraph hook. Themes. Comparison titles. Draft query letter. Lists of characters, settings and other stuff like magic systems. Three-act dramatic structure

Meadow: I find, in the schools that I attended in the past, most bullies are the more popular students, who weren't at all that ugly. People who bully always have ...

Hi folks, This Christmas holiday I've been reviewing a lot on the YWS forums, and I've been noticing trends such as bullying scenes. Today I finally got off my backside ...