Discuss the craft of writing. Questions about how to string words, sentences and stories together? Ask them here, or post a sample to get an honest critique of your work. This is a public forum.
Here's a pointless, goofy exercise that might help us all realize it's cool to be different, and enjoy the differences in others. 1: Use three...
Say you have an SF manuscript, or espionage, or techno-thriller. Now add a healthy sub-plot of romance. Suddenly you have a cross-genre piece on...
Unfortunately, I am the busiest I have been for a while and haven't had time for more than a cursory glance at discussion of late... But I am...
or was read to you that left a lasting impression? I recall a lot of picture books, fairytales, and joke books from early childhood. ...
Here is an interesting question, at least for me. When does one put puncuation outside quotation marks and when does one put them inside? For...
Shane Black requested that I post every moment of my life here on WN. I’ll try. ‘I had a dream’ In a warm pink sleep, minutes from dawn, I had...
DO NOT READ THIS. Debate or de-fish. Man, you guys wake-up early. #1. I read, “Can’t we stop bickering, and post about writing?” It all looks...
Your post on Was, Is & Be is interesting. Can we move it to it's own new topic?
Squabble, cat fight. Brady, I wanted to start a new thread, hope you don't mind.
I'm going nuts. I learned in grad school how to research, do notes, prepare a bibliography -- even do an index. but how in the world do I obtain...
tee-hee - Should have started a new thread! I want to bury the hatchet... Author: Mike Fulton (---.30.203.54.Dial1.Atlanta1.Level3.net) Date: ...
Man, what am a Gary Kessler, and how do I make sure I don’t get any on me? I knew he was humorless and didactic, but now he’s grown a Hamish...
I've been moving chapters around, combing some and making separate outlines for the early middle, middle middle and end middle of my novel (or...
Getting away from the clash of the virtual titans here on WN, I have some news to report. Against all odds and all reason, I may have an interested...
Is it common practice to provide the interviewees copies of the taped interview from magazine articles?
Boredom suggested she survey the sepia-painted walls of the lounge, then the leather furniture and its/it's ?? occupants to relieve the tedium.
A few more paragraphs down here.
Allo, allo-- My theoretical book for Routledge on polemics as concept is rolling along quite nicely, but I feel a tad weak in the knees about some...
My protag is 15, pregnant and living at an unlicensed home for unwed mothers. My question is, would she need a consent form from her parent to be...
I just checked the nyfa link and it's working. The link is: www.nyfa.org For New York-based artists, the application for the grants due on...
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