Lauren2010

While *personally* I find the passage above too graphic for my own tastes, what matters is what you're trying to do as an artist. So long as you're using the ...

A mass killing would probably be more disorienting for your readers than anything. I suggest spacing it out a bit if you're really committed to killing 19 characters. What I ...

Ahhh, the age old debate between literary fiction and genre fiction. As BlueAfrica pointed out, literary fiction is all about the characters (sometimes you won't even be able to find ...

BadNarrator has a lot of good points! My biggest suggestion, coming off of those, is just to slow things down. Let some more time pass for the reader between getting ...

Hiya, Seven! Everyone has given such good tips already :o they really are good ones! My biggest thing to add would be to check out the chat room (it's accessible ...

Welcome back, Min! What sorts of things do you like to write? :o Fiction, poetry, scripts?! What kinds of books do you like to read? Also, Disney music is totally ...

I love Wuthering Heights because the characters are all so hateable that I adore them. xD What you say about it being a super multifaceted novel is so true! There ...

I think you should tell the story in whatever length is necessary to tell the whole story! Which sounds kind of "well duh, I know that" of course. But it's ...

Hi Jenchuu! You've got a lot of really great ideas to work with here! And awesome ideas are the most important thing to have when working with a novel. ^^ ...

Are you participating in Camp NaNoWriMo this month? For those who don't know, Camp NaNoWriMo is the more toned-down version of National Novel Writing Month that occurs in November. NaNoWriMo's ...

Missed the last two weeks, but I queued up something small for the weekend and I'll get back on track next week!

I've just applied for MFA programs in Creative Writing which (like @PenguinAttack said) won't really qualify me for anything at all and will mostly just be for fun and extra ...

The results are in! But first I have to make a huge apology! Thanks to a few wise poetic souls who pointed it out, it seems that I made an ...

Lauren, I think you missed a stanza in your format. A villanelle should have 19 lines. The last stanza before the quatrain should end in A2. This is really true! ...

As far as I can tell, there's no rule about line length, etc in villanelles! The only structural rules are how many lines are in each stanza, and the repeating ...