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I'm fairly horrific at titling stories / general works of any sort. Actually, really horrific. I'm not very good at determining what makes a fantastic title, either. I'm currently trying ...

I'm a sucker for tragic characters and downward spirals. Not angst or whiny ones but people who are deeply flawed and (somewhat) well intentioned and find themselves hopelessly spiralling out ...

Veranda is love. But after thirteen years of Times New Roman hate, I'm starting to like it at size 11 pt. Or even 9 pt. The smaller it gets, the ...

It's hard to advance a story with a "perfect character". It's hard for your readers to empathize with someone who is ridiculously perfect. It's hard for their trials and tribulations ...

A lot of people have said that it "has to fit the character's personality" for them to smoke, but I'm hard-pressed to look at my smoker-friends and see how their ...

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 ...

This used to be a thing on the Nanowrimo forums — it's fun and short, and it gets the creative juices flowing. I post a word. You write something out ...

Dahlia >> I don't think people are sad/concerned that others dislike classics. If anything, that's kind of inevitable with any group of people. I think it's problematic though that people ...

I guess I should explain. I have 47 000 words to write in the next six days, and I am working basically every one of those days for almost the ...

To all of us who didn't make it: what happened? What went wrong? Bask in our collective failure!

Start in five minutes?

Is anyone up for a twenty-minute word war? I'm desperately behind on my wordcount and the Nanowrimo site is being terribly slow. In case any of yous don't know what ...

When Aubrey was eight, she caught a soul in a jar. (Which is technically cheating, because I wrote that line last February. Oh well.)

Not so much the "blues", but ... I think I have to throw in the towel now. I'm way too behind on my wordcount, which wouldn't ordinarily be an issue. ...

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