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(... which is why LiveJournal has a "friends only" or "private" option. I love my LJ. ♥)

I admire your dedication. Except for one truely terrible attempt at NaNoWriMo and one silly play-by-post RPG, I've never finished anything longer than a short story, and even most of ...

[alt]+[tab] is your best friend. If you really don't want people reading your work politely -- politely -- explain to them that this is something that is very private and ...

I like it when the symbolism isn't apparent. I love figuring things out on my own, sometimes years after I originally read the book. I'll be reading up on something ...

Well, you can always use the Council of Elrond™ trick, in which a bunch of characters get together and are talking about the past for quite awhile. It worked for ...

A lot of calendars reset fairly often. The Japanse calendar starts over every time they get a new emporer (or is it ruling family?) and there's really no problem there. ...

The world is going to end up with Muslims and other religions or sects ruling supreme, and Christians having hardly any rights at all. ... yeah, so? The world was ...

Twenty pages in an hour, how fast do you type ? I usually average three pages/hour when I type fast. I mean, holy sh*t. (I average 80 words/minute.) You can ...

Believe it or not, my English teachers have been incredibly helpful. Mrs. Montague taught me how to skim a book*, Mrs. Manley taught me how to bullshit effectively, Mr. Bisson ...

It really depends, and we really don't have enough information. Really it comes down to how important you want Character C to be and wether or not Character B will ...

I never used to outline, and I still don't bother with short stories or role playing, but I think if I were to attempt a longer piece, I would outline ...

M'kay, just checking. Very good luck to you. (Remember, if C. Paolini can get published, anyone can! :wink: )

Good luck getting published. (Although you might want to take what you've posted here down and hope they don't find it: publishers usually want exclusive rights to works they print, ...

I've never used keyboard functions in a story-story, but when I've seen them used in technical manuals (like a how-to guide for a calculator), the key in question is written ...

Have you edited and revised? Extensively? (I know that seems silly, but a lot of people finish the first draft and call it done.) Another question to ask yourself: will ...