If people are curious how useful writing software is, starting around October 25th, Scrivener will be offering a beta test of its new Scrivener...
It depends under the circumstances he returns to his ship. If it was part of his duty to return to his ship and engage in that fight (to soldier...
One thing to keep in mind is that 1990 wasn't "the 90s" just like 1960 sure wasn't anything like what people call "the 60s". If anything 1990-91...
For reference I was freshman in high school in New England in 1990. The cold war is still going as the Soviet Union is collapsing. USSR makes...
The change in format might seem weird. Transcripts are done Name: Words as opposed to Name said, "Words."
I have decided to use a prologue for one of my stories. Yes people have reservations concerning them but that isn't my concern at the moment. Is...
How do you determine the genre of a story? Of course some stories are easily labeled but so many others seem to stand like giants with each foot...
It may be important to keep in mind what role you want these races to play. Are they window dressing to enhance the atmosphere of the story? Do...
Oh how true. There was an assignment in a Latin course that required us to write about our friends. Someone decided to be creative and use one of...
Dumas (and Brust in a novel emulating Dumas) had a tendency to infodump. A character might be approaching a bridge and as readers we learn the...
A client could feel that he messed up on a contract. He could have done everything possible (or he could have missed a loophole) and the client...
Linguistically speaking literary English and spoken English are divergent. If one compares literary Welsh and spoken Welsh one would find a...
Villains. Most of my stories are Man vs Himself and so the main character is, in a way, the villian as well as the hero. When it comes to Man vs...
Separate names with a comma.