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Whee~ I hit 5k a little while ago and celebrated with a bag of Robert's American Gourmet Pirate Booty. Mm, the taste of victory!

My main character this year is Meriwether MacNaoimhín, Esq., the bastard child and seventh son of a seventh son. I like that he's curious, intelligent, good looking - and that ...

Whew! Go Suzanne! I'm at 4,035 words right now - and I've got at least another half an hour to go before my writing buddy gets back, and then we'll ...

for inspiration : I never had a brain until Freak came along and let me borrow his for awhile, and that's the whole truth, the whole truth. The unvanquished truth, ...

This is a pretty comprehensive (though by no means all-inclusive) list of sites and other scammers to watch out for, as well as common tricks that they employ and current ...

thunder_dude7, I would say it belongs in fantasy, because something "fantastic" (in this case, Greek mythology and supernatural power) exists in the story, but it is not rooted in science ...

thunder_dude7, at the same time, constantly using synonyms of said makes the author sound pretentious. It's a fine line. In the example you used, yes, "shouted" or "cried" or "gasped" ...

starrynight89, yes and yes. Yes, elves can be very cliché if you follow the normal Tolkien-ripoff standard, and they can be done well if you do some research into myths ...

Oh, haha. In that case, maybe. (The first couple chapters are tough, trying to get your head around the Old Kindgom and remembering all of the bells, but it starts ...

According to Write101, the average novel is between 60,000-100,000 words long, though I hear sci-fi and fantasy tend to be longer, while young adult fiction tends to be shorter. On ...

Sumi-chan, Sabriel isn't anything like Lord of the Rings . The magic is way more ... magic, for one. It's a totally different kind of fantasy. (The Charter Magic is ...

This is one of those things that needs to be decided by every writer for themselves. I, personally, do a little of both - though my characters usually run off ...

I just started reading Sabriel . I've started it several times, but never got past the first few chapters. I'm determined to finish it this time, though.

I read somewhere that "said" is like punctuation; you see it, but you don't see it. You don't notice it any more than you notice the rest of dialogue punctuation. ...

I don't think statistical analysis is a very good gauge of sexism. If we counted every human on Earth and their gender, we might come out with more females than ...