Leja

Second person can be difficult to pull off, but is always interesting when done well.

I don't think I've ever actually finished anything I've begun (unless it's actually intended to be under 5,000 words). Outlining is always a good buddy to fall back on.

Is this story on YWS? We're acquainted, but not good friends quite yet. hehe :D I often wonder how sitcom writers make stuff like this work. They write about the ...

Currently reading: The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

I think that the book Catalyst (sorry, it's been so long that I know nither the author's name or if I spelled the title right) is about teen pregnancy, though ...

So at this point, it's more a chronicle of the everyday? This could be fun because there's so many possibilities for it. One way I've heard of is to imagine ...

I like knowing what the character looks like, otherwise I have a kind of shapeless image in my head that is more difficult to follow. However, I can't stand it ...

In my opinion, you can never go wrong with the classics (unless it's Hawthorne's The Scarlett Letter , in which case I suggest avoiding it like the plague). I like ...

Often times, it's not about how much you know, but how well you can research, though this sounds a bit strange in the context of romance. I think it's possible ...

First of all, a big virtual hug! ^_^ Second of all, can you identify what specifically in your story is boring? Is it the characters or the plot, specifically? ("everything" ...

*sigh* I try writing everything out longhand. If it's a poem, I find it easier to edit when it's handwritten. If it's a longer piece of prose, I often begin ...

Huh. I didn't really think about it before, but alot of important things that I write in do seem to occur during a rainstorm. I think I just like describing ...

Claudette and Writersdomain, have you ever looked into Uniterian-style (sp? sorry) worship?

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Parts of this seem very... random. Like when the mother isn't home and the child bursts into tears. It is the backstory, in addition to the current events, that adds ...