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  • Writing Tips Re: Unruly Antagonists

    Hey, enemy becomming ally isn't necessarily a bad thing. That's what's helped many stories before. However, if your lead villian is your only real villian and he switches sides, then ...

    Nov 23, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: Unruly Antagonists

    Well... don't put labels as far as "antagonist" and "protagonist" goes. I know that, when I first started writing, I did this all the time, but I never really got ...

    Nov 21, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: To Rip Apart

    One of the reasons why writers don't want to extensively edit their work because it's SO HARD. I'm serious. Some editing, for me, is easy to do, but to rewrite? ...

    Nov 20, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: Killing Off a Character

    I like quick deaths. I mean, for the first death for FREAK, it's like, "WTF? That person is dead ? What did s/he do to deserve that?" So yeah. And ...

    Nov 19, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: A Big Book Of Characters

    It depends on your style of learning, lol. We're all different. ^_^

    Nov 14, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: How to Fix a Story

    Has it ever occurred to you that, by errors, I didn't necessarily mean grammatical errors? :P

    Nov 12, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: How to Fix a Story

    Nah. It's the beginning that makes it and when you look over it, you'll find that you're repeating yourself over again. This is why, when publishers look through your work, ...

    Nov 12, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: How to Fix a Story

    You have to make it fun, lol. That's a little tricky, but it can be fun and rather like meditation... ;)

    Nov 9, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: Starting backwards?

    Most likely I'll end up starting the ending, then growing so excited that I did the ending that I'll do the beginning and then wander around like that. I don't ...

    Nov 8, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: Starting backwards?

    Yay! Debate! (1) - It will be exceedingly hard to be creative within your story. By now starting at the beginning, you're not allowing much freedom to change your story ...

    Nov 8, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: Starting backwards?

    Well, when you read it, it'll be forwards. I just want to write it backwards. ...ha. Too confusing?

    Nov 7, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: Starting backwards?

    Hahaha... FREAK is done-ish. Nah, the Unicorn story. :)

    Nov 7, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: Starting backwards?

    Yeah... I have a question. I'm thinking about writing the ending first and then progressively working my way to the beginning. Not that it'll actually be formatted so that it ...

    Nov 7, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: Guidelines on Synonyms for Said

    Hahaha... I should totally update this.

    Nov 6, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: "Critiques" - A Word from the Department Head

    4. Do NOT lie to author's to get positive reviews on your own work (OR for any other reason). I can't count the number of times I've seen less-than-mediocre poets ...

    Nov 6, 2006


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