Copyright is nothing more than evidence of the date of authorship the work in question. Registering that evidence is something one does through...
Price ranges depending on the complexity and type of edit and, importantly, the condition of the manuscript to begin with (its readability in...
I think Arron and Cog and others have done a far better job than I could of describing the purpose and intent of using words like "genre" and...
What do you think is wrong with it? Aside from ditching the comma after Sunday and correcting the spelling of concluded, I think its meaning is...
I'd be the first to agree that what defines literature lies in the subjective experience of reading something presented in an elegant way that...
It's a little like having a taste for fine wine. And just like fine wine, the magical elements that produce the outcome require careful...
I'm not sure I have a favorite American author, because there are so many I've loved and still have yet to read enough of (including virtually all...
You might be right. But I don't know from this glimpse who the narrator is. And, because I don't know who the narrator is, I can't nail down the...
I don't know exactly how this fits into your story, and that might make a difference. But the primary issue I'd have with it is not repetition,...
Sounds fine to me (pommel bag and lariat, I mean). You've done a nice job of showing what it's for, in my opinion. If your reader doesn't know...
You can say that someone made a "scoffing, dismissive" sound, or that he scoffed or dismissed something or another (without making any noise at...
The quandary you're describing suggests the difference between a plot-driven story (which you started out with) and a character-driven story...
I once felt the same way you feel, till I was told by a published writer that my reader's impressions were more valuable to him than any editor's...
I write only short myself, but I have worked with many unpublished novelists who don't write (or even read) short fiction at all. For those who...
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