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Can anyone help me with font size for my manuscript/synopsis? I have it set at 12 now.... double spaced courier script.

What do you think of his work? I recently finished Angels and Demons and I realized that quite a few sentences seemed off/amateurish. Don't get...

This is a story that I started working on. I think it still needs work. I am happy with the first sentence. It turned out better than I expected, and...

Novelist Kurt Andersen uses this phrase in his recent book, RESET. "The casino became the sort of governing trope of the economy...." I have...

\"Silence\" Silence is golden, to most others, it seems But to me there\'s the voices, the presence, the dreams When most others relax...

Trite? Or contrived? It's a line from a first-person story about recovering a girl's body. "We will be picking up piece of their...

I want to convey this much information. Something about the last part of the second sentence bothers me. For twenty years in Europe, Natan had...

Hi Everything is automated these days. Does someone know anything about automatic article creators? It would be great to know if someone does....

Dear WN Moderator: I put this board together in about twenty minutes. For free. And I only know a few basic HTML commands. That's why I'm not...

This is a brief section out of a new piece that I have been working on. I realize that this is not the beginning and may be confusing, but I'm...

Hi everyone, I just had a few questions about formatting. Can someone please tell me how to correctly format dialog after a narrative paragraph?...

I am a fan of most any literary fiction (my favorite being historical). I have finished a fair portion of my post-civil war novel and I am submitting...

I am writing a somewhat poignant story I remember from childhoood. My aunt and uncle came downstairs one morning and, instead of having started...

How do you come up with titles for your work? Do you have a formula, a trick? Sometimes they just come to me from thin air or somewhere in the story....

hello all, A few weeks ago, I discovered the collective noun for a group of ladybirds was... "a loveliness of ladybirds". I am also recently...

While I don't believe classes can make someone a good author unless they have the drive and talent to be one beforehand, I think that for anyone...

Some of you may remember that I'm writing a fantasy book that is substantially different from other fantasy literature. This passage is about a...

Right, I've re-read this sentence so many times that it looks like pure gobbledegook. I've lost my perspective completely, so could you tell me if...

.......I bet if I ran my hands over it, I could tell you what it said. Like braille. Truths so self-evident the blind could see them. I listen to...

.......I bet if I ran my hands over it, I could tell you what it said. Like braille. Truths so self-evident the blind could see them. I listen to...