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Sounds like a neat idea. With regards to your question about blog formats, there's a bunch of different formats, but I think it pretty much breaks down into two categories. ...

Honestly, I think the best cure for writer's block is to just not think about it. Do other activities to distract yourself, letting the sub-conscious mull the idea over. Eventually, ...

Just a note, but Queer Inklings is primarily a safe space for queer people. This means it is primarily a private space for us, and is not simply a source ...

Hey David! Welcome to YWS :) Putting together an anthology of stories and advice is a good idea, but it's tough. Generally speaking, people don't want to submit a story ...

Hey kman! To get feedback on your work, it's best to post in the Literary area. The Writer's Corner is more for general input on an idea, to update people ...

Theme is one of those really ambiguous words and I definitely should have specified what I meant by it, haha. By theme, I just mean some kind of commonality. For ...

Sounds good. But just keep in mind that neither the medium nor whether you make money on it matters at all. You will probably be fine, but the reason is ...

When I think of memoirs, I usually think of one of two things: 1. They're a recollection of a specific event in the author's life; or 2. They're recollections of ...

This is very, very ambitious, and my biggest worry with what you described thus far is you're not going to be able to fully develop each chapter as each chapter ...

Well... that's certainly interesting ;) I think you would call this literary nonsense, which is an actual genre of literature. One of the most famous examples is Alice in Wonderland. ...

When bad people convince otherwise good people to do bad things, they do so by convincing them that what they are doing is actually pretty good. For example, during World ...

Aye, I don't think anyone would consider Phe or you to be a Nazi sympathizer just because she has German / Austrian heritage. Nothing to really worry about :) Just ...

I think that looks pretty cool! To answer your question -- I think most people would not recognize it at first glance? I'm pretty sure I wouldn't if you hadn't ...

I looked over it real quick, and I'd say it doesn't count as being published. Functionally, the site is similar to YWS except in one aspect: the stories that appear ...

Fireside Magazine is accepting flash fiction submissions until May 1, and they're paying 12.5 cents a word. More information: