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  • Writing Tips Re: Tips on writing love stories?

    Hello! Long time, no see! I'm planning on entering NaNoWriMo this year (for the first time! :shock:) and I'm breaking out of my niche by writing a love story. In ...

    Oct 26, 2011
  • Writers Corner Re: Have you ever...

    That makes total sense! I think what was sort of nagging me were the really subtle fantasy elements I slipped in (my professor described the story as being similar to ...

    Nov 20, 2010
  • Writers Corner Re: Have you ever...

    ... written and submitted (either to a magazine or article or fiction writing class or what-have-you) a short work about a character from a roleplay, for those of you that ...

    Nov 20, 2010
  • Lounge, The Re: So I think college has killed my drive to write.

    Yeah, I should really start doing that. :/ And I totally know the feeling! I used to just write prolifically when I was younger and now when I have the ...

    Aug 15, 2010
  • Lounge, The Re: So I think college has killed my drive to write.

    And probably my sense of prose, too. I'm majoring in English and I've only written a few (very) short stories this summer. Is - is this common? Will I ever ...

    Aug 15, 2010
  • General Articles Re: English essay!

    I don't think this is exactly concise enough, and this is due tomorrow morning. I keep thinking I'm missing something in what I need to say. The assignment is about ...

    Feb 18, 2010
  • Research Re: Jobs that require moving overseas?

    In this project I'm working on, my protagonist is half-black, half-Japanese, her father having moved to Tokyo in his mid-20s for a job requirement and deciding to stay once his ...

    Feb 5, 2010
  • Writing Tips Re: Phobias

    I have a character with pyrophobia, and I'm having trouble keeping it from getting contrived. The basic premise that inspired the phobia for this character (who is a summoner / ...

    Jan 6, 2010
  • Homework Help Re: Essay (for Rhetoric class)

    I'm really uncomfortable with the points I'm making - and this is due tomorrow. Can you evaluate this a bit? I want to make somewhere in the B+ range. Thanks! ...

    Nov 10, 2009
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: Blessing

    I agree that this is a good piece. The prose is wonderful and I like your sense of description. It creates a very wonderful ambience and I can feel the ...

    Nov 3, 2009
  • Fiction Discussion Re: Large cast~

    If your struggling to identify your characters, you probably have too many. Or else you just need to hold some back instead of revealing the whole ensemble at the beginning. ...

    Nov 2, 2009
  • Fiction Discussion Re: Large cast~

    With that many characters in play, I think that introducing them one by one is just about the only way you can do it. Trying to introduce them in a ...

    Nov 2, 2009
  • Fiction Discussion Re: Large cast~

    I'm writing the first chapter of what-is-most-likely-an-epic (that's going to be converted into a comic) and I have a large cast to work with. During the first chapter we see ...

    Nov 1, 2009
  • General Fiction Novels Re: The Devil Has Dimples (Prologue + Chapter 1)

    I thought this was strangely dramatic for a high school story, and that maybe the ending was somewhat abrupt, but it works in this case because Penny's coming to such ...

    Oct 31, 2009
  • Romantic Novels Re: The New Boy (part I I)

    I kind of like the simplistic style and minimalism in this. It creates a nice tone and it's easy to digest. Um, grammar-wise, you use periods in some places where ...

    Oct 31, 2009


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