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Yeah I know it's not garbage, I just couldn't resist... :wink: Anyway, thanks for the analysis. The prologue losing steam is a problem that it's had since the first draft, ...

Hey guys. If any of you remember me at all, I'm still working on the same pile of garbage (in technical terms, a novel) that I was months ago, and ...

Thanks a ton for the help. I think I'll just clarify some things. The twins are jinni themselves, but extremely powerful and reside in the sky, can travel among the ...

I'm not even a girl and I think that it's really cool. A word that others were using is "morbid", and that seemed to fit. I liked how it got ...

Hey guys. This is the prologue to a story I've been working on forever. I posted an extremely rough version of the first chapter on this site a few months ...

It wasn't perfect, but it didn't really need to be. Obviously this was just for fun and to amuse, and I was certainly amused. The image of Phillip getting horribly ...

I have a lot of important influences, but the single most important is Susan Cooper. Sure, Tolkien, Rowling, Poe, Lovecraft, and others have shaped what I think of as "good ...

Have you read the Vampire Hunter D series by Hideyuki Kikuchi? It's a pretty unique series, if you like stories about vampires you'll probably enjoy it. Plus they're illustrated by ...

Has anybody else read anything by this guy? I had been hearing lots of great things about his writing, and I finally had the time on my hands to start ...

This is definitely my favorite work by CS Lewis. The Chronicles of Narnia are just ok, but this is one of the greatest modern theological books. Somewhat ironically, I would ...

How to Write a Damn Good Novel by James N. Frey (no, not the Million Little Pieces guy) is incredible. I picked it up in 6th grade on vacation because ...

I really love Harry Potter, and not because I like "watered-down prose with action". Everything about is fantastic, the plot, world, characters, etc. Granted it has certain similarities to The ...

Thanks a ton for the feedback and everything. It's great that you're actually critiqueing it and not just saying "OMG PULLZTER PRIZE-WINN3R!!11". This is really going to help me improve ...

Allright. this is a couple pages of a story I've been working on for the better part of 2 years. I'm trying to wedge my various influences (Wolfe, Mievelle, Poe, ...

Wow, I liked it a lot. We had a Holocaust survivor come talk to our class once and it eliticted a similar response from me as the shoes did to ...