Megrim

Try reading YA books (young adult). They have the same complexity of plot and characterization, but usually a more streamlined, faster-paced writing style. Also, Brandon Sanderson has a ton of ...

Maybe it's that you don't know how to translate those big ideas into a concrete series of scenes? There's always more details, more "crap how do I get from A ...

The elephant in the room for me is whether this is a romance story, or a story with romance in it? Those are two different playing fields. If it's a ...

Routine! You'll often see in movies some moment where one character is all ready for when the other character forgets/messes up/drops something. For instance, she'll be sitting reading the newspaper ...

You sound just like Dan Wells. If you're not familiar with the name, he's a very successful author and one of the podcasters on Writing Excuses. His debut was a ...

On the farming side, I think others have that covered. The farm would definitely be specialized. I don't know about produce, but I know a lot about livestock farming, and ...

I think the others have made the good point that you're approaching it a bit upside-down. Genre is used to describe where a story fits. It's not a template for ...

Thank you @inktopus! I'm very flattered.

That sounds really cool! And wow it reminds me so much of a book I was looking at in Barnes & Noble. I have no idea what it was called--I ...

Both The Curse of Yig and The Dunwich Horror involve Eldritch-human hybrids, so I'd recommend reading those to see how Lovecraft himself envisioned such things.

I voted for hippocampus because it's the most original and sounds like a lot of fun. Angels and demons are super overdone and tired imo, so those ones automatically turned ...

Ever start writing something only to find yourself going way longer or way shorter than intended? That "short story" keeps up momentum into 25k+ words, while your grand "novel" fizzles ...

Descriptions are a finnicky thing. You need just enough to make the story feel alive, but any more than that and it bogs everything down like lead weights in your ...

Introduction Ideas are cheap. You may have heard that, but if you're like me it may not have really sunk in yet. Some writers are overflowing with stories and characters, ...

SOUND ENTERS THE CRUCIBLE! (@soundofmind) Organization: 5/5 Looks good to me, particularly how each point is separated and discussed separately. Using the quotes helps break up the review visually, an