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The only way I finished stories was I got completely obsessed with them. I echo Snoink. Being emotionally engaged in a story (to an obsessive degree) is very important for ...

I love Fitzgerald!!! :P

No Excuses; No Stopping Most writers are perfectionists, and, because of this, writers are often unsatisfied or overly critical of their work. They sometimes respond negatively or are discourage by ...

Being attached is necessarily vital , but without being attached, it can be hard to develop your characters enough. The best advice I can give for getting attached to characters ...

Great tips, Snoink! ^_^ I agree about age for the most part, but, like Imelda brought up, there are always exceptions (young writers who are serious and older writers who ...

I'm stumped. So, for the next scene of my story I need to get two characters alone - Nalien and Liehne (with possibly another character- Sophie). Problem is that Nalien ...

The second one looks most interesting to me... then, of course, I love fire, so that might have something to do with it.

Today was very taxing. After a week of no writing during finals, I wrote about 15 pages today. I definitely bit off too big of a chunk of material in ...

I don't agree with number one. If you're constantly waiting on the muse, you're not gonna get far. My thoughts completely. Muses are too unpredictable to depend upon. While there ...

Some good ideas. ^_^ While I don't think I could ever create a short story in those simple steps, but it's a good basic outline, and I'm sure it would ...

I admire anyone who can successfully redraft an entire piece of writing. I know that I would fail miserably. :shock:

Hey DefJam! :D Sure looks interesting, but it's a little hard to find and read on Live Journal. I'm sure that if you pasted it into a thread and posted ...

I love the word stricken too. :wink:

I cannot thank you enough, Cal. ^_^ You gotta love those dead men. I feel the need to rant. Writing Tears today I realized how extremely helpful telling yourself the ...

UPDATE! Tears: I reached the turning point. :D Excerpt: He cleared his throat. Setting his jaw in determination, Larckes stared down at the figure and announced in a deep voice. ...