Uberwatch, I know what you mean with "editing hell". I believe this happens to all writers. I often get stuck, too. The advice I can give you here...
Take the village nearest you and write about a fictional civil war a year from now. Avoids many clichés like Bad Croatians, Bad Serbs, Bad You...
Sorry if this seems cheeky, but isn't medieval fantasy by definition an escapist genre where everything was better and "more natural" than in our...
These are my thoughts exactly. Are you simply re-writing small and large parts? That's normal, and necessary. Or are you scrapping everything and...
Personally, I think they could have picked worse. I once knew two sisters called "America" and "China". In some countries there is actually...
Well just for the sake of it, here's a list of possible motives for going up against Assad. This is not what I believe but what I think the US...
Possibly. I wouldn't count on it too much, though. If there were good, up to date satellite images of the launching sites, they could already have...
This is brilliant. I am going to use this. It's also a quite amazingly potent device for introducing characters to the reader as well.
Why not cut the chapter completely, tell the necessary bits the reader must know in flashback or in a dialogue in the next chapter, and leave it...
Well, having read it, wouldn't you agree that the Russian position re the report is more or less bluster mixed with disappointment that one of the...
I really didn't understand it, either, to be completely honest. Video footage may have been faked. Fake video and image footage of news events is...
Of course LaTeX works on Macs. Just google. :) Of course, it's not really a word processor but a compiler. You have to like that sort of thing to...
My last serious writing project had four primary characters, two male and two female. None of my beta-readers has yet said that the characters are...
Perfectly right! I started writing (on computers, that is) with Lotus Ami Pro. Next step was Lotus... Word-something-or-other. Then Lotus stopped...
In your situation, I think I would go for a fictional town. It will give you more flexibility. If you're at a loss how to name things, look at...
Separate names with a comma.
