I'm ridiculously OCD about this happening to me. I not only copy my WIP to an external HD frequently, I also email it myself. That's a good way to...
There's probably been twenty or so threads on this subject. If you use the search function you can find all sorts of takes on this situation. Some...
It is certainly possible, but I think it'd be a major pain in the ass from a reader's perspective. Think of all the verb modifiers you have to...
Peachalulu reminds me of something else I forgot about Dan Brown. One of the other main reasons he writes page turners is that he ends a lot of...
Great characters help but, as you pointed out, guys like Dan Brown have written "page-turners" without particularly good characters, and with...
Agree with the above. There's no "right" way to do it. Very much subjective, imo. BTW, nice screen name and avatar. AIC rules!
They're writing the story that speaks to them, the story that tugs at their heart strings, the story that they would want to pick up a book and...
This is a place where I would use an em dash. Now, I can't say it's a perfect example since, as mama pointed, it may not be appropropriate for...
I think that, like many things, a balance is the optimal way to go. Being too much of a planner takes away from the in-the-moment type of...
This. Also, it drastically lessens the impact for the moments when you want to use italics for what they're actually made for -- emphasis.
It isn't so much a conglomeration of scenes spewed out willy-nilly as it is a short story that just kept on going to the tune of about 37k words....
I have recently found myself getting bogged down halfway through the first draft of my WIP. The situation is this – I have groups of characters,...
Thank you guys! I obviously know jack**** about guns lol
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