Noelle

What Hattable said. Fiction stories always have a sense of reality to them, as I'm sure you know, but are overall fiction. You are in control of the story no ...

Flea markets are very random. All of the people above me have given you great examples. I just want to add that you could have almost anything at a flea ...

I've visited this thread many times, but never got around to responding until now. Curse you procrastination This is most definitely an original idea. Although the idea of "gods of ...

To answer your question, I'd rather read from Y's POV. The mystery behind X's life and this evil force would interest me greatly. I know I'm late to party, as ...

Lauren asked a lot of wonderful questions. Definitely keep them in mind while you're writing this. I want to comment about switching between this alternate world and ours. You mention ...

A lot of magazines have an issue or two available on their website so people submitting can read them. Definitely read through the stories even if they bore you. The ...

If you're going for an open ending, please don't leave it on the "I don't know" line. That leaves way too much unanswered and doesn't give us the satisfaction we're ...

Everything you write has publishing quality. Remember that. The novels you see on the shelves of the library and the shorts stories/poems you read in literary magazines were written by ...

It took me a few good years to learn how to finish a long piece of writing. It takes practice and you might end up scrapping a few pieces, but ...

Is your novel written in first person POV or third person? That will change the way you write her reaction. With first person there will be more opportunities to be ...

To answer your question I prefer action packed beginnings, but if it's written right I enjoy slow beginnings as well. I'll give you an example of the last two books ...

Building off of what Rosey said. The relationship will be built in the narration rather than the dialogue. If their conversations read like arguments that's fine, because that's how they ...

Since this is a query for a contest I'm not sure exactly what they'll want. If you were sending this away to an agent there would be a lot I'd ...

As some of you might've seen on my wall, I attended Barnes and Noble's Book Fest this past weekend. I chose to specifically attend the event on Sunday because they ...

12. Ending on cliffhangers is a good way to make your reader love you. Everyone loves mine.