MaryEvans

I've been writing in first person past tense for a long time, maybe most of it even. It is my default go to when I try for a more active ...

There's a very useful site called Google that can help you do a little bit of research on your own and maybe focus your question(s). As everyone already pointed out ...

While interest is a big chunk of writing, you need to build up perseverance. When writing a story, start with a basic plot line, draw it out, see if you ...

Very, very roughly, high fantasy has an imaginary world and creatures, and an epic plot (for example the characters have to save the world type of thing). It can be ...

You shouldn’t really get discouraged (or even read your writing) before you actually finish writing it. You can’t expect everything to be perfect from the start and you can’t fix ...

Why don't you post something to begin with? You know, give us an example. Why do you think it's too fast paced anyway?

Officially this is second draft. I have the entire story down both in a first draft and a scene/plot summary. The plot itself was revised and changed a couple of ...

Thanks for all the feedback. I'll finish it, that's pretty much certain. I think I will just split it. No matter how much I cut it or take out, or ...

I've been diligently working on the second draft of my fanrasy novel, and when I got to about the middle of the story, I realized I had gone over the ...

Check out Sanctuary if you havent already. Its pretty much the same concept just in sci-fi rather than fantasy. It also has this idea that some of the monsters are ...

Naming has always been quite an annoyance for me. Sometimes the names just come naturally. I imagine the character and the name just pops up on its own. But in ...