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  • Writing Tips Re: What PoV would be better?

    Midquel. 2 entirely separate books relaying the same events from different perspectives. Example: Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow.

    May 11, 2017
  • Writers Corner Re: The Fire Underneath of Things

    Short list of plot points, sub plots, and further conflicts: Warning: probably spoilers for subplots in here. -Grey infiltrates fancypants party -Ivy and Nikki spend time at Nikki's farm -Ivy ...

    Mar 13, 2017
  • Writers Corner Re: New Tags for Writers Corner

    would loooove a LMS tag. surprised there isn't one already tbh.

    Feb 11, 2017
  • Writers Corner Re: The Fire Underneath of Things

    Long summary of characters, relations, and plot: There probably aren't any really bad spoilers in here. Read this to get an idea of the characters mostly, and the plot briefly. ...

    Feb 7, 2017
  • Writers Corner Re: The Fire Underneath of Things

    My struggle of names: Girl - (hazel, gwen, magnolia, clara, Nikky, Blackwell Boy - (james? Thomas? ) (radford, Gray, Parkins) Thomas (tommy, tom) Grayson Lennox Gray Mason, samson, morgan --- ...

    Feb 7, 2017
  • Writers Corner Re: The Fire Underneath of Things

    QUICK HOOK: a story about a girl full of flowers and steel and shadows and a boy full of electricity and mysteries. Where the world is made of glass and ...

    Feb 7, 2017
  • Writing Tutorials Re: Political intrigue tips

    This is the guide I always wanted that I never knew I needed. A+ helpfulness. Would plot against the government again. Thanks Rosey c:

    Jun 2, 2016
  • Writing Tips Re: Writing a southern accent

    100% agree with not actually writing out the accent in text for all of the above reasons. I remember reading a book where it was just two or three pages ...

    Jan 10, 2016
  • Writers Corner Re: The Next Disney Princess (need name help)

    Basically what Lumi said about what letters to use. Y is good too. I've always liked the name Magnolia. :) Oh and Marina... hmm. Also, there's a pretty popular book ...

    Oct 16, 2015
  • YWS Re: "Good For Your Age" is Not a Compliment

    Question: Often, people say things like "I'm new to poetry" or "this is my first real poem" or I somehow can divine that they don't have a lot of experience. ...

    Oct 14, 2015
  • Writer's Market Re: The Broken Plate

    I know I just posted here... what, not a month ago? With the vagabond city journal thing, but these publishing opportunities keep falling in my lap and I feel obliged ...

    Sep 25, 2015
  • Writer's Market Re: Vagabondcity Journal

    I was perusing the tumble when this publishing opportunity caught my eye: I read through what they want before realizing that I probably didn't have many works that fit that ...

    Sep 11, 2015
  • Research Re: Acknowledgements?

    Haha @firestarter that's the reason I asked (partially). I too see them more and more: two pages worth of acknowledgements. That's all well and good, but I think that sort ...

    Mar 13, 2015
  • Research Re: Acknowledgements?

    When is it appropriate to include acknowledgements at the end of a novel? Is there even an etiquette for that, or is it just a "I'll acknowledge people if I ...

    Mar 13, 2015
  • YWS Re: The Big Book of YWS Codes

    So apparantly Bebas is a thing. [bebas]Your words here[/bebas] And there's also this: Media BBC codes. (Just posting this here so I don't forget it exists)

    Jun 12, 2014


I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.
— Dr. Seuss