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(Please just use the default font. That blue is a killer on the eyes. Yikes. If you're having a hard time reading the default font 'cause it's too small (it ...

On Marriage What age is a reasonable age for marriage? This depends on the culture the people involved were raised in. Kids in ancient Rome were more or less ready ...

I try to be polite, no matter whose work I'm reviewing. I try not to use the kid gloves, because when I was little, I hated when people would use ...

I always figure that if I don't get attached to my characters, my readers won't get attached to them, either. (Which can be the death of a story. It may ...

If it helps, I remember reading somewhere that homosexuality was listed in whatever big book of mental disorders and disabilities that doctors have until around the 1970s. If you look ...

That's true. I think #1 just might not be worded correctly. Your heart does need to be in it, because otherwise you wouldn't push yourself.

I wrote a thesis in my sophomore year, defending the Harry Potter books from a Christian perspective. Can you send me this? I'm very curious to read it. Anyway, back ...

I disagree with #1. If you're lucky enough to always be able to just sit down and have the words just flow, lucky you. However, there will be times that ...

Most Latin curses you'll see are neologisms. People take elements from real words and combine them to make new ones. I can't think of any off the top of my ...

LIFE. Literature. Imagination. Folklore. Experience. Even if it's not a magical cure for writers block, it's a good place to start when you've come to a road block, especially in ...

I'm not really sure what you mean by "sketch," (like a drabble or flashfic?) but I think that if the intent is a short character-driven plot, then dialog is what ...

If you don't have word and your word processing program doesn't have a comment feature, you can change the text color of "bad" writing to red , "good" writing to ...

I think that Writer's is legit, because, if you, personally, own it, it is a digest belonging to a writer. (Plus, from a purely aesthetic point of view, Writers' looks ...

I think the problem with these is that your characters are designed too hastily, instead of slowly developing as you write. They're fun to fill out, but I think they ...

Gah, I can't remember what the battle was called, or even exactly when it took place, but I think it was Athens vs. someone, and pretty much, the smaller army ...