A couple of points here: Firstly it takes a ridiculous amount of time to transfer land in England. A quick conveyance is an unknown concept here....
Question for Americans. Currently writing a short story set in about 1960 about a teenager living with her grandparents. What would such a girl,...
We live in a frivolous age where graphic details of sex, drugs, death, etc are thrown around with gratuitous swearing as if in themselves these...
One successful writer to changes POV characters in the middle of scenes is Larry McMurtry. (In case you're not familiar with him, he writes about...
I don't wish to discourage you but I too am left baffled by Nash's webb and it can 'clutter' a wall?!? Intentional obscurity rarely works as a...
Thanks for all these excellent suggestions. The story is based in America (where I grew up) so I am looking for American phrases. One I had come...
I'm writing a very adult story and one character is a 12 year old boy. To complicate things, it's set in 1920. I've been trying to think of...
Another problem with writing accents is that it's hard work for the reader. It's easier to read straight prose: "She went to the store...
What is a "20K novella" and "10K of this book"? Perhaps you mean percent?
Separate names with a comma.