You sound really down on yourself. Whether it's good or bad (which is always subjective depending on who's reading it), I don't think it will hurt...
That would basically make you like anybody else who has ever written anything. Plus, I have to ask, what caused you to decide it was bad?
I guess we can pretend that traditional publishers never try to sell trash. Completely agree though that a person won't succeed with...
I understand that sentiment, and I've felt that way about traditional publishing before too. I've seen a million different opinions on the topic....
I haven't done this myself, but I guess I'm failing to see what these negative consequences would be. Why was it dumb to publish your novella?
Finding time and deciding which random idea/scene that's popped into my head I actually want to spend time pursuing. Mostly finding quiet free...
I'm not British but I thought of this as soon as I read the thread title.
You need conflict. That doesn't have to necessarily come through a person. It can come in a million different ways.
Read a lot of horror if you haven't already. Steven King of course is the most famous of our generation.
You could say that he loosed an arrow if shot doesn't quite seem right.
Nothing about the internal combustion engine prevents any of those things from happening.
I think Arya Stark from George Martin's 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series is a great character and certainly compelling. Agree with the people who...
Agreed. Programs like Rosetta Stone can help build a good survival level knowledge of the language but to really understand it at the next level...
Every character is the star of the show in his/her own mind so you have to find a way to channel that to make them believable.
Steven King doesn't outline either. When he started the Dark Tower series all he really know was that he wanted a Clint Eastwood type gunslinger...
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