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Thanks so much yrclever! That's saved me a lot of time now. :) EDIT: Yet another formatting question. Should I insert three *** asterisks into the breaks between scenes to ...

I'm preparing to seek an agent, and one of the problems I'm having is formatting my manuscript. First, a style question: my manuscript formatting book (aka. most useful thing ever ...

I agree: subplots are good. I read somewhere that you need to have three types of conflict in a story. I think they were called intrapersonal, interpersonal and extrapersonal. Anyway, ...

Okay, this is going to be a diary thing of (hopefully) anything I write, but in particular my efforts with query letters and such. Writing = hard, but easy. Publication ...

With show, don't tell, I also think in first person or dialogue, "telling" can be a powerful way of "showing" something about the character. For example, if the first-person narrator ...

I don't know if anyone's said this before, but I just bookmarked a census site with a list of last names in order of commonness. I usually choose one between ...

I've never heard of this, but Word also has issues with -" eg. "Oh no, it's about to exp-" It's hard to demonstrate here as both opening and closing quotations ...

Don't ask me why, I got to her name and just renamed her. Same with me when I was littler! I also use Behind the Name, and for surnames I ...

I tend to write stories driven by a single character, so I'm probably not in a position to comment on this from the point of view of writing. However, as ...

I've been having a bit of a dilemma while editing/rewriting: in my first draft, I overused italics for emphasis, as I always do. Fortunately, I find this rather easy to ...

Interesting start! I like the dog being the main character. Very intriguing. A lone dog trotted down a back alley of New York City. I'm not sure about mentioning New ...

Hm... well, I had this pact with myself that if I finished my other novel thing before November, I'd reward myself by doing NaNoWriMo. I have a funny definition of ...

Think up the stupidest idea you can for a story (eg. a talking [insert random noun here]), then write at least 200 words of the story. Can be beginning, middle, ...

I have this problem too - plotting is a lot of fun but writing can start to seem like a chore sometimes. I've found it's helpful to read all the ...

I go over to Megan’s place on the weekend. Her Mum is great. I call her Auntie Susan, even though she’s not my Auntie. I dawdle, splashing in muddy puddles. ...