ankhirke

It's the same as writing any other scene - you don't just list what happens, you try to make the reader feel what happens. It's showing rather than telling. More ...

Just to echo the above - it's best to be introduced whenever it feels like it's best to be introduced. In my current fantasy project, I don't mention magic at ...

Baby name dictionary or, my personal favorite: . Awesome site. Lists meanings, famous bearers, has stats, and is completely searchable. As for SpecFic names, I tend to like coming up ...

honestly, this is the reason I have about a couple dozen projects all going on at the same time. you're not going to be able to keep interest in one ...

Great suspense, though, as others have mentioned, you may call it either "classic" or "cliche" depending on taste. It is a very common beginning which makes it very hard to ...

give all your minor characters complex backgrounds, and work them into the story every time you mention them. :) It's actually quite fun. ~Annie

Why would there be any problem with a character smoking? People smoke in real life. In my opinion, a novel world in which nobody smokes at all (even when their ...

I agree with the above posters. The storyline as you have it sounds fascinating, but the technicalities of hiding a blind person's disability seem too complex to even attempt. I ...

Jesus, I thought I was doing well until I came back here. Halfway done on day five - Are you trying to finish within the week? Or planning on writing ...

cheater! :P Anyways, one hour in, 1212 words, and I'm calling it a night. God, I've got so much homework... ~Annie

45 minutes left and counting. Current word count: 0. god, this is worse than new year's. ~Annie

description and conflict. Let the reader know enough description, backstory, and exposition to understand what's happening. Then take as long as you need to in order to develop and resolve ...

Not bad. You've got an interesting setting, which I'd like to see more of. As far as characters go, it's hard to get a grasp on them - everything moves ...

There's at least one novel written in 2nd person: Bright Lights, Big City. I don't personally like reading 2nd person - it tends to alienate me from the story rather ...

actually, "was walking" is past tense. It's imperfect past tense, but still, the thing they're talking about HAPPENED. It's not in the process of HAPPENING right this second. The two ...