Not sure if it is a legitimate grammatical use of the colon, but when conversing with others in chat or in games, I will use something like what...
While it's not something I do more than necessary, my absolute favorite part of writing is that point at which my mind is going 100% full throttle...
Thanks for posting this thread. I have no first line to really contribute, but it got me to looking at the first lines of all the stories I've...
Someone mentioned movie cliches... grrr. -People are running from monster/bad-guy/evil/thing and.. someone. ALWAYS. trips. -Bad guys are...
Ug. It drives me bananas. I mean, it's good the first few times you run into it, but for me I've always found myself feeling a great sense of...
To my knowledge, it has not been proven scientifically that this is impossible within the realm of the laws that define our universe. As such, it...
I see I have a long way to go with dialog. LOL. Thanks :)
*That* right there is one of the things I'm running into. I would *like* to do that in many cases, but it doesn't feel very smooth to me (to use...
Ok, first off.. I don't know if I'm looking for answers, opinions, or validation here, so I'm just going to do a mini brain dump to try and...
Thanks everyone for the input :)
1000 questions? That must be interesting. "how often does he/she trim their fingernails?" "Can he/she hop up and down on one leg, while...
At what point do you really need to go through and create dozens of data bits for characters in a story? Flash fiction? Short story? I've...
Gotta disagree there. It's amazing what a single line of code can do when you do something like...forget to put it in (that would be me and...
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