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Entry One -- The Story. I suppose first thing is first: what is The Broken about? And alas, that is a hard question. Not because it’s an awfully complex story ...

Introduction. Work is going ahead on my first novel, The Broken . Well, I say it’s my first novel, but it’s not really; I’ve started a bunch of novels in ...

Lulu is certainly good. You can self publish it for free, and for a fair fee you can give it a barcode and have it put on Amazon and all ...

One could just as ask what the point of chapters is. ;)

That's a bit unfair. You've gotta write a better novel in far less time. It took him a month to do the plan, a year to do the first draft, ...

You could use the Advanced Critiques forum. You post up a large part or even all of your novel, and you'll get detailed feedback on all that you have posted ...

Turn off the internet.

I find editing afterwards is helpful. If I get too caught up in editing the story as I go, I start to insist on my first draft reading as well ...

I guess this explains why I describe the flavour of broccoli as 'white', and why my mum has no idea what I'm talking about when I say that. Actually, it's ...

Maybe there is no waterfall. Maybe you really live next to Area 51. Really: the only advice I can think of is to simply go and see the waterfall. Looking ...

PerforatedxHearts: He actually wrote thousands of poems, hundreds of short stories, and six novels. He eventually had 110 books in print.

I wouldn't really consider Kang227's example to be purple prose. Something more like, "In his almost violent desperation, Joe stumbled and skidded and slipped towards the toliet, that bastion of ...

Well, this poem was written by a man whose gravestone has only the words 'Don't Try' engraved on it. Read into that what you will.

Wow, so much bad advice in so little time.

It hurts. A lot. My little sister seem to enjoy torturing me in this manner. I believe part of it comes down to your hair colour: darker hair tends to ...