I'm very happy to have stumbled across this incredible community. Although for years I've always considered myself a writer and by trade I suppose...
I read that as a writer it bad to bait your stories with secrets and hints. Which I love to do, is it really a bad thing? what I read said...
I know I tend to be the clanging bell around here always saying "Good Space Opera isn't bad Science Fiction just because it's not Hard SF."...
Well, it is much easier start to write after have declared to be a bad writer, or at least this is what i meant in the title of this thread. I am...
Hello! I'm a 34 year old dude from Kentucky. I work as an entire IT department, and I don't want to any longer. In fact, I don't really want to...
I have been thinking about this for a while. Given writing is essentially verbal speech transcribed into visual format, you would think that...
First off, hey there! How you doing? :) I've been working on this fiction story that passes in a new world. Humans still exist, but they've been...
Before it becomes unrealistic? See, Heridon (who is hard of hearing), when he was in his elementary/middle school days, once attended a local...
So have any of you guys used Outskirts Press or Tates Publishing to publish any sort of work? If so, would you recommend either to me as a first...
Therefore you determine the boundaries of your own reality. I've introduced a character fashioned after my daughter in law and named her "Isabel"....
Since I am new in the forum, I think Introductions, first of all, would be a great way to start the topic. So… Hello. My name is Yotam Haddad, I...
So, I've been wanting to write this basic idea for awhile now. It was born out of a theory I had about the Inheritance Cycle a while back: that...
This topic seems to be done to death. And usually I'm on the side of "cliches are good if you do them right". But I wonder if the answer could...
I've heard nothing but rave reviews for this fantasy series and some even say it surpasses A Song of Ice and Fire. I've simply come to ask what...
So, the main antagonist of my novel is a forty-six year-old man who, due to a reaction to a particular medicine, now has incredible strength....
The trouble I have with writing is the proper use of Vocabulary. Reading doesn't always do me very much good because of my poor reading...
Through Mary, Comfort of the Affliected, I got kicked out of my favorite forum (not this one mind you), people think I'm a racist because I...
I'm in the process of brainstorming a story, and it's still in that fledgling, exciting stage where there's all sorts of unanswered questions that...
I'm assuming that rejection is a sign that what i'm doing isn't right. I queried 10 agencies and so far I've been rejected by 8. If the next two...
Personally I have not read it, but I was under the impression that it carried at least some popular appeal, or at least use to. I was thinking...
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