A cover is meant to help sell a book. It's goal , for the author, is not to win artistic awards, but rather to help sell the book. So what...
I find it difficult for me to put my ideas and emotions into the typical forms of poetry. About two years ago, I came across an evangelist online...
Hi. I am an aspiring Asian Indian Genre Fiction author living in the U.S. and I want to use an American pen name for the following reason: The...
I came across a new publishing service called Cherry House Press while looking for submission calls. I submitted a short story to them last night...
The title pretty much says it all. There's a character in a book I plan on writing, and I wanted to have her suffer depression, and ultimately...
Hi, In my current WIP I am writing In 3rd person. The MC is about to get married but is having doubts. This is currently written as Was she doing...
So my novel takes place some undisclosed time in the future, after a war that will remain incredibly vague. In the aftermath of said war, I want...
For a while now, my go-to response to new writers asking variations of "Should I not write this because it's been done before?" (the irony of...
I feel like this is going to be one of the most original ideas for a starwars movie we've had in a while. Case in point, [ATTACH] What are your...
I've been considering giving one of my characters heterochromia (different iris colors) for a while now. It wouldn't serve any real purpose to the...
So I'm all in favor with writing down my idea's and creating my plot outlines. But as I was referring to one of my outlines tonight, as I was...
This is a story idea I'm currently working on. It will be all about animals that can talk and no humans. I'm planning on making it into a series...
Hey everyone! So I recently did some research on omniscient POV, and found almost nothing useful (yay!). It think I understand the basics of it,...
This is part of a horrific part of Marckus's ordeal being captured. This being a third part since being taken prisoner. And I am wondering based...
(Having read the thread on italics and thoughts, I will not use italics). As a non-native beginner my stress level drops as soon as I type a...
I wanna know what your opinons are on the characters in this. How do they come across? what do you think of them? It was to be a very simple...
Bit of a long-winded question here, but please bear with me. My story is currently written in first-person present day, and every now and again...
So I have parts of my book where I try to keep the suspense, for instance, the main character meets a man that is about to die. The man says that...
As an avid fantasy reader and a beginning fantasy writer, I'm curious to see what you guys all hate to see/are sick of seeing in the genre. It...
I'm not so sure if this is the right thread or not. But, I'm going into children and kids story writing soon. I was going to do something silly...
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