Has anyone here started a youtube channel in order to promote yourself as an author? It seems like a great way to connect with people - if they...
I would suppose it is a very fine line between "spoilers" and foreshadowing-which should always be done in one form or another. If by "spoilers"...
Jane Austen had a horrible time getting her work published. I believe it took her something like ten years to get Pride and Prejudice published...
You could try to distract the reader - say he is driving along thinking about some problem that he is going to have to solve at work, the reader...
First grade, I wrote a collection of short stories to cope with the death of my first dog. He came back as a dragon..and then a caterpillar....:/...
I have heard it said that apathy is arts enemy and curiosity is its friend. Don't be apathetic about who is better than you but drive yourself...
Only word of advice: don't just add subplots for the heck of it because you need more stuff. Subplots have to arise from, or be related someway to...
I always thought beginning with "....and he looked over the dead body..." or some such shock beginning was a little gimmicky. That said I don't...
Oh I love Blackadder too. "The bad news is that actually there are simply hundreds of catholics who desperately want their heads sneaked off and...
Oh, I was talking more straight Hist. Drama Fiction. And I'm not saying we should be limited by making every character an example of "the ideals...
I would delineate between "strong woman" and "feminist". Again Joan of Arc was not fighting for equal rights. Modern sensibilities in a period...
....she also frequently referred to herself as a prince. Most call Mary Wollstonecraft the first feminist, she wrote The Rights of Woman in 179 as...
Aida, Armida, Rossina, Gilda, Desdemona....I've got a problem there. :) But for everyone else - :mad:
I never liked to load my characters names up with hidden meanings either. Sort of reminds me of a Victorian where all the villains are called...
Separate names with a comma.