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  • Writing Tips Re: Telling vs. Showing?

    In writing, I feel that both telling and showing is important. However, you can't tell everything, just as you can't show everything. There has to be a balance. I've read ...

    Feb 14, 2009
  • Writing Tips Re: Pen names

    Hows about Amada Darrow? It means something like 'beloved oak tree'. It is very fun making up pseudonyms. I do it all the time, though I don't use any of ...

    Feb 8, 2009
  • Writing Tips Re: What inspires/inspired you?

    Another thing that inspires me is free-writing. I tell myself to fill up an A4 page (I have small handwriting) and I end up writing the first couple of paragraphs ...

    Feb 7, 2009
  • Writing Tips Re: What inspires/inspired you?

    I tell my friends to say something random. I usually come up with an intriguing image for that. For example, there was this time today when I said 'Free the ...

    Feb 3, 2009
  • Writing Tips Re: Dialogue/Conjunctions

    If your character speaks that way, then it's perfectly fine to start a sentence with 'and'. I have a character who stars off his sentences with 'tch'. It's great fun ...

    Jan 24, 2009
  • Writing Tips Re: Backstory

    Yeah, there's been a couple of wars that happened. More like two wars that lasted for almost two hundred years in total. I plan on writing about those, but so ...

    Jan 24, 2009
  • Writing Tips Re: Backstory

    Ah, alright. Thank you Rosey, Gahks.

    Jan 23, 2009
  • Writing Tips Re: Backstory

    Okay, I'm writing a story set far, far in the future. There has been a lot of backstory that's important to the plot of the novel, but I'm not sure ...

    Jan 23, 2009
  • Writing Tips Re: How do YOU get last names for a story charater?

    Heh he he... In my world, it's the future. People do not use last names. There is a given name, a code name on a database, and that's it. Though, ...

    Jan 23, 2009
  • Writing Tips Re: Freeware for writers

    Hm, KailaMarie, there are a lot of ones for organizing there. Quite a few of them are demo runs, which means that they're limited. The generators (like names or powers) ...

    Jan 20, 2009
  • Writers Corner Re: Writing Requirements

    I have a specially constructed playlist which is blasting at blinding volumes, since I don't write in my room. I put it on iTunes, and the sound just comes through ...

    Jan 18, 2009
  • Writing Tips Re: Names??

    Hm, there's a website called Seventh Sanctum. It has very many generators for names, and I'd suggest going there. Here's the link.

    Jan 17, 2009
  • Writing Tips Re: Editing - An Easy List

    Thanks Seraphina! This will be my holy text for editing. The inner editor is just having too much fun. I'm such a pushover, even if it's to my inner editor. ...

    Jan 16, 2009
  • Writing Tips Re: Don't tell. Show.

    Thank you so very much. It's hard to get out of the habit of telling, since I've been doing it since I learned how to write in first grade. It's ...

    Jan 13, 2009
  • Writing Tips Re: Freeware for writers

    This one entry is basically a collection of freeware. It has everything, from name generators to organizers. I have found it extremely helpful. There are a few art programs, as ...

    Jan 12, 2009


Everything has to be taken on trust; truth is only that which is taken to be true. It's the currency of living. There may be nothing behind it, but it doesn't make any difference so long as it is honoured. One acts on assumptions. What do you assume?
— Player (Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard)