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Re: Travelling Description
Filler is ugly, you don't really need it if it's not supposed to be there. Besides, you never know how fast your reader is going to read your novel or ...
Dec 30, 2014 -
Re: Inspiration, influence, or intellectual property theft
in other areas the legal definitions of intellectual property theft are easier to define, but in literacy you pretty much have to steal a persons notebook in order for it ...
Dec 27, 2014 -
Re: Why do you write what you write
Because I'm a little bit strange.
Dec 26, 2014 -
Re: To Share or Not To Share
Whether to share your work with others or not is a big decision. One one hand, it's good to get feedback because it helps you to improve, but on the ...
Dec 24, 2014 -
Re: Typer Dance
I put together some pilates, some of yoga, a dose of psychology and a tiny essense of Anthropology and made this. You want me to do what now? The Typer ...
Oct 27, 2014 -
Re: Drug Dealers and Werewolfs
I love it! The problem I find in a lot of novels is that I end up feeling like I've seen the character set-up a thousand times before. I can ...
Oct 21, 2014 -
Re: How to format your poetry on YWS
@Dreamy Did you make sure to put on the empty lines as well?
Oct 7, 2014 -
Re: Angels#Pleeeassssee help
Are you writing from a non-fiction perspective? Because if it's fiction, you can storm Google for the main stuff and make up the rest. Keeping them reasonably traditional will help ...
Sep 14, 2014 -
Re: Screenplay
Interesting question. I'm not an expert on screen writing, most of my experience lies in novel publishing, but I did work with a scriptwriter. Sometimes (in both industries) you can ...
Sep 2, 2014 -
Re: Two Spaces
I imagine double spacing after each sentence must be a bother when it comes to editing, but after testing it out it looks really pretty on the page.
Sep 1, 2014 -
Re: Past/Present tense
Hey Moalex! Personally, I take great pleasure in breaking tenses. It's so much fun. However, you do have to know the ins and outs of every rule and why it ...
Jul 7, 2014 -
Re: Possible Idea Advice?
Every story has already been told, what matters is how you tell it, so you've got the right idea in adding your own style to it. Add contrasting ideas Something ...
Jul 7, 2014 -
Re: Should all conflicts in a book be resolved?
It depends. One of my favourite books is 'The Road' which does the same thing. It's pretty much a really long journey that's part of a conflict. We don't know ...
Jul 7, 2014 -
Re: Action... How do you do it?
Anytime =]
Jul 7, 2014 -
Re: Action... How do you do it?
The sample you've given is pretty good! The hardest part is getting over the step-by-step record of a fight, and you've got that covered. Make the threat real There are ...
Jul 5, 2014
