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  • Writing Tips Re: Making My Characters Real

    Role play, role play, role play. :D I like to think of myself as being reasonably skilled in regards to characterization, and I swear it's because I've spent so much ...

    Sep 10, 2007
  • Writing Tips Re: How long should a chapter be?

    It's hard to say. I don't mind longer chapters in books, where I can stick a bookmark, but if I'm reading something online, I like chapters short enough to read ...

    Sep 5, 2007
  • Writing Tips Re: A LIST OF ARTICLES

    So yeah. This page will NOT be edited more, but you can put your stuff on a list on YWS yourself. My apologies, I misunderstood. :oops:

    Sep 4, 2007
  • Writing Tips Re: Mary-Sue Litmus Test

    Rohsair got 14, and I can't believe it, but the Raven got 28!! That's crazy, as I know that she's not a Sue, so I took it again and she ...

    Aug 30, 2007
  • Writing Tips Re: Mary-Sue Litmus Test

    The (main) character I play in "the arepee" with my friend Baz came out with a score of 87. :D (Then again, when in doubt, I checked yes.) I'd bet ...

    Aug 29, 2007
  • Writing Tips Re: Mary-Sue Litmus Test

    I posted a link to one of these in the "Character Development" usergroup recently. I find them handy and amusing. If you're lazy (or suck at math, like me), there's ...

    Aug 29, 2007
  • Writing Tips Re: A LIST OF ARTICLES

    Snoink, could you add this topic on poor man's copyright?

    Aug 29, 2007
  • Writing Tips Re: Making Characters mysterious?

    Give us interesting little bits of information, but nothing else. Maybe tell us what brand of cigarettes he smokes, but not what color hair he has. Maybe mention that he's ...

    Aug 21, 2007
  • Writing Tips Re: Flashback Alert!

    I like the third option best, myself. Whatever you do, don't put "FLASHBACK" unless you a) have a kick-ass, jerky, short sentence sort of style and you honestly believe you ...

    Aug 16, 2007
  • Writing Tips Re: Help me create a horribly cliched romance scene!

    Have him swear to preform some sort of quest to prove his love. Bonus points if the things he swears aren't really possible and/or are not applicable to the current ...

    Aug 16, 2007
  • Writing Tips Re: Diaries/Journals/Notebooks

    I keep a rather detailed and mundane LJ, of which I am most fond. (I've had it since before I started high school, I think.) I kept a lot of ...

    Aug 15, 2007
  • Writing Tips Re: I can't finish!

    Okay every time I get into a story for some reason I stop! Its like some unknown force that prevents me from getting beyond one hundred pages! I either get ...

    Aug 9, 2007
  • Writing Tips Re: How do YOU get last names for a story charater?

    I usually use this site. I've used the given name version for years, but admittedly only recently discovered the surname section. It's most excellent, and I highly recommend it. Sometimes ...

    Aug 7, 2007
  • Writing Tips Re: Alphasmart

    I'd never even heard of them before. I looked them up, and I think they look like a pain. From their website, it looks like the Neo model runs at ...

    Jul 30, 2007
  • Writing Tips Re: Urban fantasy

    Holly Black's Modern Faerie Tales ( Tithe , Valiant and Ironside ) were my introduction to urban fantasy, and they've remained my favorites in the genre. Then there's the Vampire ...

    Jul 29, 2007


Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it’s the answer to everything. It’s the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin down, to build up, to create, to be astonished at nothing, to cherish the oddities, to let nothing go down the drain, to make something, to make a great flower out of life, even if it’s a cactus.
— Enid Bagnold