What if your story does not fit into any particular timeline or setting? Is this alright, because my story is a fantasy? It's kind of, um, set...
Hello, everyone. I go by Toad (a long-standing nickname). Just thought I'd stop in here and see what goes on. So far I like what I see and I'll...
I find this deeply disturbing since I own a horse. I don't want to go to the market and find horse sitting next to my steak This is the article...
Hi sorry i havent written on here for a while I've been quite busy. But I've got a quick question. When writting my first book would it be ok to...
I have found myself at an impasse. I have described an elevator in my science fiction story, but I have reached a car. It is, in essence, a...
...being haunted by the 'Lorem Ipsum' ghost? There was I, minding my own business, getting ready to spill some more words of beauty into my...
Hello Everyone, my name is James I am 19 years of age I like to think alot and philosophize. I began getting interested in writing a short while...
When you create a setting for your story, the world in which your story takes place, how do you go about populating it? I'll use my story as an...
sometimes I try and figure out plots to use in my stories with the idea of beating routine out of the way. what I mean is that I try and avoid to...
How many do you think you can use before the reader gets too confused/bored to continue?
If your story is set in a realistic setting, where do you set it? The location of the story invokes a different feel. For example, you'd expect a...
Most dictionaries don't have "healthless," but I'd like to use it. What sounds better? 1- Poor Sasha, loveless and health-less. (Standard.) 2-...
Ever since Firefox has started freezing on me, I haven't been able to use it. I started using Google Chrome for a while (I know this sounds...
i have a love for words, grammar, spelling, & how they look. i find myself getting almost angry when i see them being abused :mad: a 'friend'...
I find people who ask about what other's sexuality is rude. I also consider people who walk into someone's house, invited or not, and then wonder...
I'm working on a new conceptual short-film, and unfortunately, have hit a pretty terrible case of writers' block. I've got an extremely basic...
My name is Daniel. I'm a 21 year-old student studying at the University of Ottawa hoping to make a living, eventually, as a writer. I'm strange,...
I'm just beginning to send out pieces to magazine contests for poetry and short stories. I would like to have a collection published; does anyone...
getting some ideas for my next story? looking for imageries preferable with SOUNDS. tweeting of birds early in the morning.
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...
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