Tenyo

I'd recommend sitting butt-in-chair for half an hour to an hour and brainstorm. Write down a bunch of ideas, no matter how bizarre or ridiculous they seem, collect about twelve ...

This is a really difficult one. Although you'd get more reviews for the first few chapters if you posted them in smaller chunks, you'd still have to fish around to ...

this might be of use? It's for first person, but the principles still apply for third.

Do humourous stories with an emotional touch falls into the chick-lit genre? I'm not sure. Personally I think the dark fantasy genre has been polluted by chompy YA romance. I ...

Wow XD There are a *lot* of characters here. By the looks of the plot it's very character based, too, which means you're going to have to take particular care ...

A novel about an modern-day elven society similar to ours except that parents get to choose the gender of their children at birth. It will follow a transboy dating an ...

I love dystopian novels. The darkness and pessimism of them is delicious. I'd say the key to making any novel unique in its genre is to do a lot of ...

Any time ^__^

Themes! Themes are greatly underappreciated in novels, and those that don't have one usually tend to be quite dry. Sometimes they're evident, sometimes they're not, but they're always there. Warning: ...

Looks like your critiquing method got critiqued ;] Being honest and humorous is a hard one to get, but I agree it's a great way of reviewing. Piesaresquared does this ...

Doesn't sound anything like the Red Wedding... except that there's blood and a colour in the name. I don't imagine many people would make a link between them. That plot ...

Something I find hugely useful is to practice writing rather than just make it a hit-or-miss. If I'm overdosing on dialogue then I'll set aside a few minutes here and ...

= . = I cringe every time someone unnecessarily starts a sentence with 'and' or 'because.' It genuinely drives me crazy. I mean, I don't mind if the rule is ...

Going back to fix stuff That's a part of the writing process. Once you've written the first draft you can go in and bridge the caps and fill in the ...

See: Battle Royale No. Don't see that. It's pretty gross. There are plenty of books where death is an ongoing theme and people die all the time, it does completely ...