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Just wanted to add something I forgot to mention earlier: You're taking the Evil Government route which, while it isn't necessarily a bad route to take, it's definitely a standard ...

Is a short story easier than a novel? Maybe, maybe not. I find them easier to write because I've written heaps more of them, and because I find it easier ...

Steampunk is pretty much the Industrial Era + sci-fi. So all of the characteristics of that time: clothing, mannerisms, architecture, but with a science fiction twist. Wikipedia is always love ...

Yay sci-fi! Um. So clones are fun and I like some of your ideas; some of the storylines don't make sense although it might be for lack of information. Why ...

I love your premise but to be honest, I'm not sure about your execution. A couple of things pinged for me: the Magical Hero(ine) Who Doesn't Know Who She Is, ...

An easy way to keep people from leaving is to make sure no one is coming. Maybe they halt traffic to and from the city, for "the people's safety". Maybe ...

I am too OCD to not point out all of the issues line-by-line. I sometimes don't do that, but those are rare occasions.

Everyone falls in writing slumps. It sucks, but they happen. Stuff that might help: (1) Reading. Do tons of it. Having a writing slump is a good excuse to read ...

Of course you can do it — it's your novel, you can pretty much do anything you want. It's kind of a matter of taste, and how well you incorporate ...

Okay, wracking my ever-failing memory for YA novels that I enjoyed as a teen: Scott Westerfeld's "Uglies" series is easy to breeze through — it's fun awesome sci-fi that is ...

Everyone's green! Omg.

I brought kitten-eating. True story.

Um. So like I said. I am going to theft your mad poem-ing skills. It will be great.

You are most definitely right, the hooker line is silly and the woodenly was unnecessary. (I knew someone was going to point out that hooker line before I fixed it ...

I find it bizarre that people still use Internet Explorer. (Guess I gotta use Safari more.) YWS is growing up so fast... *sniffs* Lul. That's what people said three years ...