Trident

Ok, I started writing "professionally", as in not just for fun, last year when I tried an attempt at a novel (which I boxed :)). After doing some research in ...

Welcome to YWS! We all are huge fans of reading and writing--obviously. ^_^ A tennis fan? :D Happen to catch any of the Australian Open? An exceptional return of Serena ...

Welcome, welcome, Kit. Though I saw you in the chat the other night. Hopefully you'll enjoy this little niche as much as the rest of us.

Yes, I agree, it's a nice little story, especially for children. I guessed the ending about a paragraph from the end, but I'm not seven, so it's not a huge ...

In all of their conversation, Marie had forgotten about her husband. He was easily enough forgotten, but if she were to get out of this house, she would need him ...

I too had to read this several times to truly take it all in. (But I seem to do that with every poem, so that really doesn't mean anything. :)) ...

I was going to say the same thing. Smaur used them for emphasis. It's perfectly okay to use them in that way. I use fragments like no other. I wouldn't ...

That is freakin' awesome. My history teacher in high school let us shoot of a musket, although I forget which era it comes from. We only shot steel wool out ...

It was her tree. Since she could remember, it had been her tree. The memories of it flooded her mind: warm summer days that made her seek the old oak’s ...

I have a few people who I would vote for at this moment: Obama, Condoleeza Rice, or John McCain, or maybe even Wesley Clark if he ran. I'm a fence ...

Clau, you're right. It is something I take quite seriously. See! Proof reading. To be honest, I don't correct typos anymore unless they are not obvious (a different form of ...

Hey Snoink! I wouldn't break up the story into three parts in the query letter if you were planning to. Since those three parts are kind of how most novels ...

FREAK is done, eh? :D:D:D:D:D

Part II Marie awoke to the sound of burning logs and the smell of sweat. She was laying on an old couch with a fireplace in front of her, its ...

Thanks everyone. I should have part two up soon if I can ever get myself off the Internet and actually start writing! And DD, your post left me... well, speechless. ...