Lynlyn

Writersdomain pointed out some great stuff. I think that really the most important thing is to tug on the reader's heartstrings before and after the death - get them attached ...

If it's set in modern-day times, I just open up the telephone book, and there lies a treasure trove of material, fresh from life. If it's set in past times, ...

As a writer, I get a lot of advice about keeping a notebook. I never really believed it at first because I was never really the diary type. My family ...

You live near York? I used to live not far from there when I was younger. Yeah, I'm not sure there really is anything wrong with taking a picture as ...

I think it's more of a "paying homage to the past" sort of thing, like Memorial day... not particularly morbid. It's not like our plastic craptacular zombiefest Halloween (which apparently ...

NaNoWriMo. Once you find that yes, you actually can do something crazy like that, you can do anything. :wink: Unless you're like me, and you write 55,000 words and still ...

I still want to know what the British call a sofa. I'm not sure if this was mentioned earlier or not, but some people in my family refer to it ...

I think Dana is an Alphasmart model. I never knew the name for one of these until you mentioned it, but now I realize that I've seen one of the ...

Hmm, I believe JKR does that alot. ...Yeah, she does sometimes. Then you take a story like "Billy Budd" which is a series of info-dumps with enough lines of dialogue ...

Don't take yourself too seriously. Don't expect what you write to be perfect. It won't be.

This probably isn't early enough for you, but I was talking with my history teacher about the McCarthy era, and he mentioned that in addition to a "red scare" there ...

I live in the South-East, but around here, there's a fair bit of racial disdain against anything Muslim. There is in the northeast too. The way my grandma talks about ...

Dia de los Muertos? Doesn't that translate as day of the dead or is my spanish just really poor? I think it's more of a "paying homage to the past" ...