What are your thoughts on beginning a story with your MC in some sort of tumultuous situation and then spending the next several chapters...
Hi guys. I'm planning a story which is foregrounded over the incident of a child killer who is himself a child, and one of my characters is a law...
1) Do you have to understand every single word you read? or 2) are you the type of reader that enjoys new words here and there to allow room for...
personally 1)names or titles of the characters 2) their personalities 3) their thoughts and how they interact with each other 4)the tone...
I've just seen the news that one of my favourite authors has passed away. For those of you who aren't familiar with her, Anne McCaffrey was one...
Let's say I wanted to write a book about flying ninjas with katanas. They're meant to just be fun, hilarious stories one can read on a summer day....
One of the most rewarding things I've done during the last few months was share my work with other writers, and read the works they want to share...
this is in reply to: the first thing you notice about a book? so I was thinking do we really need a title to a story? sometimes I pick up a book...
If we're using the text of a sign right in the sentence, how do we write it? Here's my sentence as it stands now: He read the No Trespassing...
then you are what you watch or read, right?
I'm not sure how many of us are actually aspiring to be a published writer or a professional writer. Me, I never really wanted to be a...
This seems to be the kind of book/series I like the most, if you've read Darren Shan's The Demonata series you'll know exactly what I'm talking...
So what books do you think fit into the category of a 'Good read?'. I mean one which left you feeling happy or sad or astonished at the levels of...
Do you have any favorite openings to stories or novels? Do you have any that you like, that you have written? My most recent opening, that I...
hi all, I'm in the process of editing a novel and am well into at this stage. My daughter who is doing punctuation, insisted it should be a...
Hoping you can help.. Maybe be a silly question. When you post a short story you have to format it because it doesn't keep the formatting of...
So what's the big deal about "Literary genre stories?" I've read a bunch of them, and they all seem to carry a boring tone throughout. Perhaps...
I'm not sure that this is the right sub-forum, so please correct me if it isnt. Is there any site where I can get books cheaper then Barnes and...
New member here, dropping in to say hello. I write fantasy and read just about everything else. Working on a web serial at the moment. Would love...
I'm looking to more seriously write a fantasy story I've began thinking of, any books that are a must-read in order to know what makes a "good"...
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