I think the real problem is the second part, about worrying what others would think. When I was younger, I really wanted to be a writer and I had...
I don't know how it works in other countries, but in the U.S. people write a pilot script, and if it gets accepted, they film the pilot, and if...
It sounds like a sci-fi/horror hybrid. As for publishers, I would suggest a horror publisher. From what I've seen (which probably isn't a lot, I...
Thanks, everyone. I have seen some letters italicized, but I thought that was probably a style that was added by the publisher, not in the...
I'm not sure where to ask this, but in my novel, there is a point where a character receives a letter and I have written out the entire letter....
Certain words, such as "said" or "asked", blend into the text better because readers are used to them. You don't have to keep searching for an...
Surely, Scott Pilgrim wasn't the first story to include a group of villains. At any rate, I thought of the idea before I really knew about Scott...
I know unpublished authors shouldn't really think of doing a series right away, and I understand that if they do, they need to make sure the first...
My suggestion is don't lump the entire flashback at the end. Have other characters mention the villain's history in little pieces throughout the...
I suppose if I was writing something that I wanted to be grounded in reality somehow, I would research the city I wanted to be the setting. So...
I wasn't aware that the single-stroke quotation marks were specifically a British thing, I just thought it was up to the writer to decide the...
It depends on the size of the project. I've completed short stories and poems, but I have yet to complete anything the length of a novel. I...
I really appreciate that chatter when it comes. It generally gets me excited for what I'm creating.
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