Winter's Twelfth Night

Thank you! That site was really helpful. Although I'm not sure my MC would say a lot of the words in that dictionary because she's from the upper class. But ...

Thank you for your replies! Heidigirl: Yes, I did know about the different accents, but really I just want my readers to be able to tell that my story is ...

I am writing a story set in eighteenth-century England and I'm having trouble making my characters sound, well, English. I am not from England, so I don't really know what ...

I'm usually inspired by everyday life. I'll here conversations on the street or at school and I'll write them down. Sometimes I observe other people at cafés or restaurants and ...

Whenever I'm looking for a name I go to this website: Here you can search names or look them up by origin. For example, if you needed a Mongolian name ...

I tend to start by describing the setting, but it all depends on what you're writing. I agree that you should start with some of the most important information first ...

Personally, I think you should have equal amounts of telling and showing in most pieces. However, it really does depend on what you are writing and who the characters are ...