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You shouldn't have to turn your writing style to 'happy' to have an optimistic scene. Just write down what your characters are doing. That should be enough.

The girl that dosen't really do much and just melds into the backroud with her group of friends. W Clarissa Lucksphere

Clarissa sounds nice for her. My character was once a grizzly murderer that killed exactly 52 people in a recent spree. However, he was badly injured by the police, and ...

You should spend less time thinking how you're going to divide your story and just write . You've got no excuses to try it out atleast once a day. Attempting ...

A certain character in my latest novel is supposed to be a total card game afficianato. Though it's in a neo fantasy setting, he uses a number of modern and ...

D'aurizo Rayze sounds like it came straight out of Final Fantasy X! It makes me think of something mystic, and magical, like a sharp mountain breeze. It sounds cool either ...

A sleek, futuristic clothing line. : ) W

That would depend. Are you going from a space opera to a LOTR-styled fantasy world? But really, you shouldn't have to change anything vital just so someone will continue reading ...

I'm supposed to mention Coke every 5,000 words? How could anybody do that? I have enough to worry about with my characters/plot than figuring out how to fit a Coke ...

I swear a lot in real life, so it's only natural some of it would fall into my particularly angsty/sadistic MCs. I'm in the same boat as CoreMeltDown. From what ...

You really need to work on your description. While the reader is responsible for filling in most of the blanks for what the main character looks like, the writer has ...

So I'm in this one point in my book where the mysterious guy shares a really cool conversation with the MC when they're suddenly interrupted by an explosion on the ...

Of course : -) I just introduced MC # 2 and he turned out way different then I expected. Before I wrote I knew I wanted MC1 to vaugely hate ...

casey_kent sounds dangerously close to casey_cat. A lion, then! W

Okay, I really am trying to create this plot in my head but I can''t think of any villain and their motives...it's usually fairly easy for me to create a ...