I have always had an issue with commas – I think it first stemmed from my English teacher’s rule of thumb that you should “put a comma everywhere...
Pace is the momentum that keeps your book flowing. It’s the tension that jumpstarts your reader’s adrenalin. It’s the drama and danger, and...
Writing has a lot of rules – from the more inflexible rules of comprehension to the far more slippery and opinion driven “rules” of style. While a...
Hey Everyone! I'm a newbie writer and have just completed my first manuscript. It's a chic lit fiction novelette at about 30K words. Looking for a...
First and foremost I have to say I'm new here! Just signed up and it seems to be a great community! Now allow me to apologize for my grammar and...
I was searching around for stuff on novel word-counts and came across this great series of letters by Orson Scott Card. It starts out with a...
one idea would be to write as if you were the opposite sex but under a narrative style using the first person then third person. I have done...
I plan to post some writing of my own in the Writing Workshop. But I’m aware I must do some constructive critiquing as well. But this leads to my...
Hi All, I'm Sculy, I'm from the Netherlands and I am in my last years of university. I've been into international debating for the past few...
There are two moods in fiction. An overall mood, which could be described as tone, tying the piece together, and shifting moods to accommodate the...
When I first started writing, I had a dream – a vision, if you will, of the mystical land I had created and the fantastic creatures who inhabited...
Hey guys... I have this idea...no...an entire plot, complete with the ending figured out in my head. Its a very deep, philosophical subject....
I am wondering what approach each individual uses when it comes to their story creation. I use Product Management terms because those are two...
I've recently finished a novella and it's one of the first that I don't instantly hate. It's about a pair of con men, its well researched and...
Hi everyone, I am having some trouble with writing combate scenes that are not boring and wordy. Any suggestions?
This post was a giant essay, but it has been cut out for two reasons: 1. It occurred to me that I don't want to officially publish it on a...
I'm halfway through my novel (55,000 words) and I've written everything so far in past tense (he said, we went etc.) BUT I've been thinking a lot...
I know this is a matter of style but would like to hear your preferences. How do you separate scenes in creative writing? What about jumps in...
Hi, i have recentlly started tweeking with a new plot for a story. Evrything i have about the story i like except theres one problem that i...
I was just reading something about Freud and I came across Id, Ego and SuperEgo the ID is the set of uncoordinated instinctual trends. the EGO...
Separate names with a comma.
