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Ahh, good luck! Having the storybook base and AtLA framework I think will help give you a boost into the novel, even though you don't consider yourself a novelist. Plus, ...

@Rosendorn What's the fun of a setting a story in a magical, eternal forest responsible for maintaining the balance of reality if it isn't put at a little world-destroying risk? ...

A Very Brief, Poorly Written, Hardly Thought Out Summary Esther Keeling always wanted to be more. She's the Sentinel, charged with protecting the Eternal Forest from the human world lingering ...

I'm muddling through the fifth draft of my novel right now, and I've been thinking about how my perspective on drafting has changed as I've developed as a writer. Once ...

Boy oh boy is this old! The info is still good, but one of these days I'll give it a good update with all the things I know now. :)

Like what has been said above, you should pin down whether your character is Japanese living in America, Japanese-American born in America to Japanese parents, or Japanese-American with one Japanese ...

Just want to pop in and say I love this idea! As a bisexual lady with a male partner, I feel a similar internal struggle as I've only ever dated ...

In addition to what @StellaThomas shared (Maureen Johnson

It sounds like you might be working with a collection of personal essays rather than a memoir? There's a lot of overlap in narrative nonfiction of course, but what sticks ...

@LadySpark oooh that's fascinating that a magazine wants a book-length collection to choose from. I guess that must be part of the difference between submitting poetry and submitting fiction. xD ...

Sparky! It's fantastic you're putting together your first collection. That takes a lot of hard work and dedication, so best of luck to you! A pro-tip as you're working on ...

Sounds like an interesting idea! Alternate-world stories are always fab (though I don't think they would fall under "magical realism" if it's like Wonderland. More like straight fantasy since the ...

Personally, I stay away from character templates. They only ever give me very surface-level ideas of characters which is fine for something like a storybook! But novels need bigger characters ...

Carlito! This is me knowing nothing about this book, but having a deep and unabiding love for queries. SO HERE WE GO. Eighteen-year-old Molly has just graduated from high school ...

This was asked some time ago, but on the topic of flashbacks there are all kinds of ways you can separate them from the present time of the story. Italics, ...