I would stay away from getting too technical with your combat descriptions and keep it simple. If you use a bunch of technical phrases, you're...
I say write wherever you feel comfortable. I have been just as unproductive at my desk as anywhere else. In time you'll learn to write wherever...
Maybe evolution didn't happen the way we think. Maybe the indigenous people here were evolving just fine until the martians got here and took...
Cacian, I think you're misunderstanding the question. He's talking about people being on Mars before Earth. As to the original question, I...
Seems a bit drastic. Just because he's not a major character doesn't mean he doesn't have an important role to play. Consider him a sort of a Yoda...
One other thing I wanted to mention. You'll have to decide whether it's important to you or not but here goes. When using names of stores/products...
I'm not a lawyer, but I don't think most businesses have a problem with you using their company name in a book as long as you aren't portraying...
Like others have said, reading is the only real way to build vocabulary. If you have trouble reading, you need to deal with that before you try to...
Writing as a man? I'm not sure if there are any. I can't even tell you which female romance writers are actually men writing under female...
Let's be fair, it works both ways. I happen to know that many romance writers are men, however you almost never see a man's name on a romance book...
Another thing to remember is literary fiction is kind of hard to pinpoint. I've seen just about every genre shelved in the literary section.
I usually don't bother splitting up my work into chapters until I'm done. Once I do, I just go by feel. If you read your work, you'll know when...
I don't know, I read and write both types of stories. I look at it as the difference between types of food. To me, genre fiction is like cake....
I think I've come up with a solution. If I do cut this character's full story in lieu of a heavily shortened version, I may post his full story to...
Separate names with a comma.