Like I remember reading in Michael Crichton's The Lost World he always started a chapters off with just one word or a name that related to the...
As several have already said, the point of a prologue is to hook the reader, so I'm really left to wonder why I've seen so much bashing on it here...
What do you like? What are your interests? Do you like comedies? Romance? Horror? What is a topic that you sincerely like to talk about? You...
I'd highly recommend that you read Hyman Kaplan, or at least some passages of it. It's about a school of immigrants in America, and just about...
I don't want to seem like a wise guy, but brackets are pretty much a synonym for braces, not that it matters much anyway haha :) But like...
Isaac Ulrich is a man with many secrets, albeit appearing somewhat normal. He is six feet tall, appears to be in better than normal condition than...
I agree with Mercurial, to create an entire outline may only hurt your story in the long run. Outline important parts that you feel are necessary...
You bet I do! I love writing short stories in notebooks, or notes for bigger stories. It's always neat to flip through a journal froma while ago...
I'm the same way. It's not that I don't like reading, trust me, if I like a story I'll read it like a madman. It's just that when I read, my mind...
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