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Wow. Yes. Exactly. And I thought I was all alone in my despair! After the first draft of a novel that I know will need so much polishing and changing ...

I'm seeing My-len.

Thank you for the advice, I am in both your debts! (crawls out of the pit of despair)

An Idea clutches me by the throat, I feverishly write/type it down and begin constructing the plot, I write all day in tense anticipation for what will come next... Then, ...

Thanks for replying, and for the advice- I'll definitely try it out ^_^

If you had a book that you wanted to have bound- and none of that cheap stuff- but really bound , like it would if it were being published... where ...

Hi, Kelcia- Welcome to YWS! When I write, usually the first things I'm sure of in the story is the beginning and the end. In the gap, basically anything can ...

Well, I cheat, 200 minimized pages is really about 120 normal printer-paper sized pages. So you can see that to a coward like me 50,000 is rather daunting... You know, ...

I've been trying to do the NaNoWriMo, but all I've ever written are short stories- nothing beyond two hundred (minimized) pages. I can't find the right incentive to keep going- ...

Personally, I think first person is the most comfortable to write in (so comfortable, in fact, that sometimes I switch to it when I'm not paying attention, and have to ...

Wow, I had no idea! What a cool contest- I think the most I've ever written in anything was a lousy 10,000 words. :lol: Thanks for telling me, that lifts ...

I'm a newbie on the YWS, :D, and I've been looking around at all the forums and enjoying reading the questions people ask and seeing everyone's answers. One of the ...

The "Demon Writer's Block" is no stranger to me. :lol: I recently read a book on how to write a book that handed me the weapon to destroy this hateful ...

This is my first post on the YWS. :D I've had lots of dreams that I thought would make great books and/or stories, but every time I tried to actually ...