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Oh congrats on that positive response! Good luck getting your book published!

I'm not good with ideas so if you wanted new (and maybe outrageous) ideas I would suggest that you do this exercise: 1.) Ask someone to give you three random ...

Sometimes I can get really interesting ideas by doing this exercise: 1.) Ask someone to give you three random words that have no close relations to each other (like: cheese, ...

Each chapter should have a purpose to your story like introduce characters, include thematic elements, ext. You should try to define what each chapter's purpose will be early on when ...

I agree with what Shadow said. You should have a plan of how you wanted your book to be. I would only add things that would help enhance the plot, ...

I noticed that from the books that I have read that made me cry, the (like writersdomain said) the main character (or character closest to the one that died) feels ...

Yeah I read that too somewhere and so thats part of the reason I don't post my works here.

Basically what Claudette said, jot down your new ideas in a notebook or something. That way you could keep working on your old story idea and still keep track of ...

That's fun just to make up random titles off the top of your head and see what you get. =D

What I do if I can't think of a character's name is I draw a line (kind of like a bunch of underscores, but on paper): _________ . Then whenever ...

I would say that you should first try to plan out the overall outline of your story. Then for each chapter decide which important things that pertain to the plot ...

As a reader I get hooked on a book when it starts with action and/or an *unusual sentence. *An example of an unusual sentence is in the book Ella Enchanted. ...

Writing Magic: Creating Stories That Fly by Gail Carson Levine I think this book was wrote towards younger writers, but it was still good. It had some good writing exercises ...

The following site has some good information, even every written letter in their alphabet. It also has links to other cherokee sites, books, and other links on the site that ...

I thought that since I have been asking for advice recently that I would give out some tips that I know about getting ideas of things to write. Some ways ...