Tenyo

Rewriting something over and over to try and get it right is like smacking your head against a tree to make the apples fall. It really doesn't work. Sometimes you ...

Hey Steward! Is it okay to skip to the next chapter and return to the first? Yes! Always. In fact you'll probably return to it five or six times before ...

I have the same problem. Third person just doesn't seem to work for me. First thing, if you're writing from three different points of view don't forget that the styles ...

Having two stories alongside eachother... could work, I guess. I can think of movies in which it has worked. The key examples I can think of are A Little Princess ...

The Snowflake Method is one of those things that has been around for a long, long time before someone decided to name it so and stretch and patent it. Like ...

I think the most important thing to note here is the difference between knowing a lot about someone and actually knowing someone. You've got to ask the right questions. Basics: ...

That's alright, I think 'adding to' would be better than 'gumming up.' I don't pretend to know everything. Well, I do pretend XD but I don't *actually* know everything. "Creativity ...

I'm writing this because I have advice for another writer and I don't want to clog up the wrong thread, so I'm making a new one. My question is, if ...

Till Death Due Us Part A man and a woman meet in a support group for patients who are terminally ill with a disease. They get talking and realise both ...

Talent is an interesting question. I think mostly talent comes from what's inside you. The thing with art is that it's all about expression. Some people find it easier to ...

Hey there! I generally don't download stuff in weird file formats, so I shan't download that >.> However, yws does have an Advanced Critiques/Novel Workshop thread here: Where you can ...

I tend to find that publishing houses that use blogspot as a key means of outreach are publishing houses that won't get your book very far. Also as far as ...

I think perhaps you're looking at things a little too simply. Problem #1 : Scientific discovery. There are things which twenty years ago where hard science, and have since been ...

Smush things together You know what's better than a great idea? Two great ideas (as Rache was saying.) Ideas don't do well in solitary confinement. You can have one idea ...

That sounds like a pretty cool idea, I think. Just remember though that there are already authors publishing novellas and novels for free in order to get their name out ...