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  • Writing Tips Re: Telling vs. Showing?

    In writing, I feel that both telling and showing is important. However, you can't tell everything, just as you can't show everything. There has to be a balance. I've read ...

    Feb 14, 2009
  • Writing Tips Re: Pen names

    Hows about Amada Darrow? It means something like 'beloved oak tree'. It is very fun making up pseudonyms. I do it all the time, though I don't use any of ...

    Feb 8, 2009
  • Writing Tips Re: What inspires/inspired you?

    Another thing that inspires me is free-writing. I tell myself to fill up an A4 page (I have small handwriting) and I end up writing the first couple of paragraphs ...

    Feb 7, 2009
  • Writing Tips Re: What inspires/inspired you?

    I tell my friends to say something random. I usually come up with an intriguing image for that. For example, there was this time today when I said 'Free the ...

    Feb 3, 2009
  • Writing Tips Re: Dialogue/Conjunctions

    If your character speaks that way, then it's perfectly fine to start a sentence with 'and'. I have a character who stars off his sentences with 'tch'. It's great fun ...

    Jan 24, 2009
  • Writing Tips Re: Backstory

    Yeah, there's been a couple of wars that happened. More like two wars that lasted for almost two hundred years in total. I plan on writing about those, but so ...

    Jan 24, 2009
  • Writing Tips Re: Backstory

    Ah, alright. Thank you Rosey, Gahks.

    Jan 23, 2009
  • Writing Tips Re: Backstory

    Okay, I'm writing a story set far, far in the future. There has been a lot of backstory that's important to the plot of the novel, but I'm not sure ...

    Jan 23, 2009
  • Writing Tips Re: How do YOU get last names for a story charater?

    Heh he he... In my world, it's the future. People do not use last names. There is a given name, a code name on a database, and that's it. Though, ...

    Jan 23, 2009
  • Writing Tips Re: Freeware for writers

    Hm, KailaMarie, there are a lot of ones for organizing there. Quite a few of them are demo runs, which means that they're limited. The generators (like names or powers) ...

    Jan 20, 2009
  • Writers Corner Re: Writing Requirements

    I have a specially constructed playlist which is blasting at blinding volumes, since I don't write in my room. I put it on iTunes, and the sound just comes through ...

    Jan 18, 2009
  • Writing Tips Re: Names??

    Hm, there's a website called Seventh Sanctum. It has very many generators for names, and I'd suggest going there. Here's the link.

    Jan 17, 2009
  • Writing Tips Re: Editing - An Easy List

    Thanks Seraphina! This will be my holy text for editing. The inner editor is just having too much fun. I'm such a pushover, even if it's to my inner editor. ...

    Jan 16, 2009
  • Writing Tips Re: Don't tell. Show.

    Thank you so very much. It's hard to get out of the habit of telling, since I've been doing it since I learned how to write in first grade. It's ...

    Jan 13, 2009
  • Writing Tips Re: Freeware for writers

    This one entry is basically a collection of freeware. It has everything, from name generators to organizers. I have found it extremely helpful. There are a few art programs, as ...

    Jan 12, 2009


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