Twit

Something I've been trying of late is squeezing my writing projects into one or two sentences, a la Blake Snyder. Thoughts on the below? An unruly half-fey girl tries to ...

Combing the "is" with "could have been" sounds very like the film "Sliding Doors", which handles a similar idea very well. Try watching that and see if it helps. ^_^ ...

Ideally you should have a strong start and finish, but personally I think the ending is more important than the start. The ending can make or break a book or ...

Well done! You can link to it here. :)

These sites both deal with query letters. :)

The only way to publish a novel or short story collection (and probably a book of poems for that matter) is to get a literary agent. Actually, no. An agent ...

In addition to Rache's points, I'd add that it's not necessary for us to know everything about a character's appearance. A rough idea, yes, but we don't need to know ...

Bellboy? Porter?

Wow. I'd never knew of modifiers before, much less that they could dangle. Very interesting and helpful article, Rachael!

Yeah, that's really, really rushed. It feels like you didn't know what to put in the beginning, so decided to write stuff and get it out of the way as ...

But why does it have to fit with the girl's name at all?

Why does the guy name have to go with the girl name? Names don't have to go with each other; names just are. Choose any name you like! Just not ...

Tone kind of happens without one realising it. Everything has tone, but it's getting it right that takes work. Like babymagic said, you need to fit the mood to the ...

Whenever anything has twins in, I always wonder why. Is it for cools, or for something deeper?

Nope. Compare Stephen King and Tamara Pierce and James Patterson.