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Until you're writing is good enough to be published professionally, I wouldn't worry about this.

11th person? :shock: Um, the Bartimaeus trilogy - or, at least, the first one, which is the only one I've read - uses a 3rd person narration for one of ...

Alrighty there. I've, personally, never really thought of Harry Potter as being an urban fantasy. I mean, yeah, there are a few urban parts in it (Private Drive, for example). ...

You could have a rather bland, straight hero, and then a quirky supporting character. Think Pirates of the Caribbean: there's the bland and honourable hero, Will Turner... and then there's ...

Hey, Sid, how's this for kicker, I once got a rejection letter back, where I had sent out pages to be read, right. Well when I got it back, the ...

I doubt it's cos of her age. Usually, being able to point out that a 16 (or whatever) year old wrote the story is a selling point. By 'more years' ...

- contains a list of magazines that publish stories, and has user-submitted info on the magazines. Includes average response time, average success ratio, and other info. - how to format ...

I live in the South-East, but around here, there's a fair bit of racial disdain against anything Muslim.

Try getting a copy of Self-Editing for Fiction Writers , by Renni Browne and Dave King. You'll be able to order it from Amazon. Tis a very useful book and ...

Some mixed news for today. First off, got a reply from Fusion Fragment. Tis just a standard form rejection. Ah well. Although this does have slight upside: my success rate ...

Well yeah, you're gonna make mistakes in the first draft, that's inevitable. But if you don't proof-read it and fix all your errors, you're not gonna make it far in ...

I don't agree with number one. If you're constantly waiting on the muse, you're not gonna get far. Indeed, a recurring piece of advice I keep on coming across is, ...

Why would I write a poem about myself? I'm boring.

Finished editting Differences in Opinion, and sent it off to the sci-fi webzine Fusion Fragment. They seem to have a really fast reply rate, at just over a week, which ...

Recieved an email from Michael Gasson (editor of Delivered), informing me that my short story 'Afterlife' will be appearing in the June edition of Delivered. He accepted the story ages ...