Karsten

One of my favourite writers is George RR Martin, a Hugo and Nebula Award-winning master of science fiction and fantasy with a forty-year career in television and novels. Martin can ...

Be prepared to feel like you're the worst writer ever and that there is too much editing to be done and the project is far too big and that you'll ...

Thanks for your input! Karsten; I dunno about the blood thing, because that is part of the story (a lot of it focuses on blood). The sunlight thing... I could ...

There may be supernatural creatures other than vampires who are super-strong, age rapidly in sunlight and drink humans' blood to gain youth ... but I'm questioning whether you can pull ...

Hi PB, This idea follows a familiar framework. It seems like all dystopian/post-apocalyptic novels revolve around a central threat (the Hunger Games, for example) that the protagonist has to confront.

Switching protagonists in a series is unusual, but not unheard of. I recently read Sarah Rees Brennan's The Demon's Lexicon, and I noticed that in her trilogy she plans to ...

Hi Shina, Just a drive-by comment. Love the idea of the protagonist being too afraid/selfish to use her powers on anyone else. I wonder if we could extrapolate this idea ...

If you have any good advice, please tell. 1. Your absolute minimum wordcount goal every day is 1667 words. Fail to meet it even once, and you're starting down a ...

My idea is more based on Norse mythology, and follows a teenage boy caught up in Fimbulwinter, the great winter that precedes Ragnarok. Along the way, he meets a girl ...

Agent Colleen Lindsay on word counts and novel length . Short answer: Yes.

I'm zeroing in on the logic of the writing stuff here, which is pinging my radar a little. (1) I'm struggling to imagine a situation in which a writer actually ...

I am now writing a short story (actually I don't know what it is yet, it's a wait and see thing) where a character dies but I don't know how ...

You're confusing a number of separate issues in this post. (1) Your characters have no personalities. This is a character creation problem. When you create a character, personality is among ...

There is no uniform male perspective, and different men will react in different ways to different things. For example, of my two brothers, #1 is a complainer, but #2 bottles ...

Whew. And I was just worried about people stealing my ideas. 0.o I think I'm going to wait a little longer before publishing chapter 1 of my novel here. I ...