Ohio Impromptu

I'm afraid I can't help with the other questions, since I don't do fantasy, sci-fi or anything even vaguely otherworldly, but i think I can help with the first issue. ...

First of all, if the reader understands what's happening, you can do whatever you want. I'm actually writing my novel in first and third person, although for very different reasons, ...

Evening squires. I should first of all note that I have a journal in a notebook somewhere in this mess of a room, but the problem there is that all ...

One Friday night after work some time last year, I let it slip that I was working on a novel. At the time I though it was fine, and no ...

I don't care how good Poe was, I'll add as many unnecessary words into my stories as I like. 8)

"Forced rhymes are bad for your posture."

"Like this," Jill explained. "I see," said Bob. "Also this." "What happened to your dialogue tag?" "Your tag is gone too. We're the only characters, so tags aren't needed anymore." ...

Read books and watch movies. But not crap movies. That's really the only advice that I can give. It won't take your writer's block away, but it will definitely put ...

It has to be cold, which does not make for good productivity where I live. :roll:

So I have not been living up to the W in YWS as of late, and so I have not been around for a long time (except to blog, but ...

I don't suffer from Writer's Block anymore, because the block spends so much time with me that I hardly refer to myself as a writer anymore. I swear, the worst ...

The thing about this story is that if there is a single thing wrong with the way it is written, the whole thing could come undone. I haven't read any ...

My audience is quite a bit more limited than most. I don't see many teens or children reading the novel I'm working on. And I don't see anyone that likes ...

The article makes some good points. But like everything else with writing, there are no rules. You don't have to establish setting or characters or whatever with your first sentence; ...

You can never do enough character work with your actors. Make sure they know the person, not just the lines. There are all kinds of things you can do with ...