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A character that has lots of names gets complicated very quickly, as I've discovered from bitter, bitter experience, lol. >_< I'd have said Riem either as REE-em or REEM. Or ...

There's actually quite a few of us interested in horror or Dark fiction! It's more difficult to judge a forum's popularity now because there are all these little baby forums ...

Everyone has given you some good ideas structure-wise already, but I thought I'd add that if the child has older siblings, that could add some maturity to its articulation. Like, ...

When presented with a YouTube url, I very rarely click on it to discover the pearls of YouTube wisdom that are being offered to me. That said, I'm offering you ...

Aren't the Harry Potter books more of a sprawling epic than a trilogy? I always think of Robin Hobb as great at writing trilogies, because not only did she write ...

Method used: Flesch-Kincaid (English). Flesch-Kincaid Grade level: 5. Flesch-Kincaid Reading Ease score: 73. According to Wiki, this means that my work of gore and guts and zombie children will be ...

What's proper, though, when quoting a fictional character? Attributing it to the character, or the author, or to both? 8/ The character. Especially with Sherlock Holmes, who exists in his ...

You quoted Sherlock Holmes!

Sweet!

Research? Do you have a proper idea for a story, a character and ideas and all that? If you haven't, then just reading loads and loads about your time period/subject ...

Be very careful when picking a name, because it's not easy to change it afterwards. Years ago, I called one of my character "the Raven" and I really regret that ...

I pretty sure someone (Stephen King?) said that using "said" was good because when reading, you tend to skip over it and focus instead on the dialogue, which is what ...

Don't give your character a name because it sounds "cool". Give it to them because it fits and because you like it. Cedric? Ew. Too Little Lord Fauntleroy. Donovan as ...

That was really helpful, thanks Rosie! Pace is something I'm always worrying about, but the idea of thinking about it like a dance -- that's really neat.

Well, a novella is shorter than a novel, which is at least 50,000 words, but longer than a short story. There's some official stats out there, I think. As for ...