Forum: Writing Craft Threads

Chapter 1 Please feel free to comment. The story continued...... Seven years have passed since the day Jake and Lina first met at the park....

Hi - a little help would be appreciated. A fashion company is a vital part of my novel. Do I underline the name of the company? For instance, "When I...

This is page one. Please review for flow and tension. Emeline’s belly rolled. Black stubble crawled below Angus Hardgrave’s eye patch, across...

Ok guys I need some help here. I've read this several times and I need some opinions. Is the diolouge good. To much description. Let me know what you...

This is the first 1,100 words of a YA novel. I posted another version of this around Christmas and I didn’t realize how much work that it needed. I...

This is the second chapter of a sequel novel. It should stand alone. Any comments would be much appreciated; I promise. :) Chapter Two August...

HI! sorry that i posted this a day late but hey! I don't think anybody minds!:) Love! Love is something you earn and don't get overnight....

I was wondering how you treat feedback given to you. I have asked someone to help edit the structure of my story. I did get some awesome feedback. ...

Okay...I'm planning on putting this at the beginning of my first chapter to, in a way, introduce the storyteller. I thought of it from reading The...

Me again! Would it be better for first person or third person in childrens fanasty and/or young adult? Why would it be better? Really what to...

I had a very long chapter as prologue to my story. After having posted here I learned it was mainly considered purple, overwinded and loooong. LOL....

I am having trouble showing instead of telling while using the first-person narrative point of view. I have revised my opening paragraphs from my...

This is an excerpt from a short story. The back-story is, high school where a shy boy meets girl, and falls in love with her the first time he meets...

The feathers fly from time to time because we create out of the centre of our beings, if it's going well, and then we are critted... We must...

A new opening for my novel, Life in the Tabloids. I know it is rough and the genre may not be your cup of tea, but please let me know if you think...

Here is my latest hook idea for my query. Does anyone have any positive comments on this latest hook? If no, I would at least really like to hear...

This is the beginning of a novel I am working on. The novel deals with a series of serial killings. Please let me know how I can improve it and...

Recently I posted the hook: If Elissa can’t even fit in at school, how will she make it as a Royal Musician in another world? Would it help if...

Here is a first page from my novel...I am a new writer and interested in hearing your thoughts. Nothing can hurt my feelings. Please be honest....

This is the beginning of my novel about the Queen. Maybe it will never be published (see my thread about "Famous Heroine" around Christmastime), but...