First off I wanted to introduce myself. I found this forum by using a search engine to find a writing form focused around science fiction. I...
I mean software that helps you organize all your notes and ideas and drafts so they're not just all jammed in folders or written in different...
I have a story idea about a young character whose only method of paying for his dying mother's potentially-life-saving-but-not-healthcare-covered...
I'm making notes for a villain in an upcoming project I'm planning, but I'm having trouble deciding on a name for him. He's the godlike ruler of a...
I don't have a detailed plot formed yet, but I have a vague idea of what I want. Essentially, a kid discovers this fruit and bites into it, taking...
I like reading stuff with lots of tension and weird monsters. Can you recommend any short stories collections thats like Orwell's 1984 or berserk...
I'm genuinely curious because I have always had the idea in my head for my story. I recently expanded my world and have been writing it more in depth.
I know I continue to come up with random story ideas, I can’t make up my mind. This is the next fictional idea I have come up with. I want to...
Hi, so, I'm somebody who writes without a plan. There are different stages to my drafting and each stage becomes more elaborate than the next. But...
I have an existential- literary fiction short story around 4,000 words that needs beta reading after plentiful rejections. In great need of some...
Perhaps the one thing that I've had the most dramatically different experience is when I've writing using written outlines opposed to letting the...
Hey all. I'd like your thoughts and suggestions on a new mc for a new story I've begun. This story is set in 1880 in an alternate universe where...
I've read a lot of writing on Plot, but it felt as if they were only talking about the way they ended a story like a movie. There seemed to be a...
I'm sure this question has been asked before many times. What are the best magazines or anthology publishers to submit a short story to for a new...
So just for the shiz and giggles, I tried out a random short story generator, I got: "In a world where women are warriors, one gardener has no...
Hi! I feel like I should've introduced myself first, but... I'm a mess. I'm 18; I'm writing a book with a really, really layered plot that I can't...
I'm having some difficulty deciding what time of ending/final battle I want to write. The issue is that a main plot piece is the characters trying...
So, I think writing is the only artistic skill, so to speak, that I actually enjoy. However, I haven't ever written actual original stories. Thus...
I haven't written a full book yet but I have an idea for one. I started with an original concept for a book but today I came up with a new way to...
We've probably all asked ourselves this before, right? I'm facing this question (again) right now. I have some short stories that were published...
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