I’m not too sure how many other writers do this, but we collect pictures out of magazines and off the internet as inspiration for our characters. …

I’ve been thinking about my sequel series a lot recently. I just have a few problems so far.  I’m actually writing a book on how Kaiyumian alchemy…

I recently started writing on my first bigger project. I’m writing it scene by scene and I find that for each and every scene I spend an…

I like the idea of nature spirits and kami, but I don’t like the idea of 8 Million magic monsters possibly interfering with the story. So, I came up…

I have a character who is Irish…. hundreds of years old from Ireland Irish.  My question is do I write the character with an accent? It’s seem a…

Can someone, meaning anyone and everyone, give me a quick-post punch to the head?  While revising my WiP and feeling an un-nameable drag the cure…

Apologies if this topic has been covered before.  In my current WIP there is a main character (also a Pov) who starts off almost as the cliche…

In my work in progress the antagonist, and later the protagonist, are able to teleport/warp from one place to another via powerful magic. The thing is that…

The scene is, you have one group of people, the group of the MC, talking in a tavern, in the background, that is another groups talking, none aware…

I’m making another attempt at writing a story I’d earlier set aside as difficult to write. One of the problems that keeps tripping me up is that much…

I enjoy reading. If it’s a choice between a good book and almost anything else, I’ll take the good book. When I’m in the middle of such a read,…

I am currently exploring the world my story takes place in, and hit something of a roadblock.  There is an underlying aspect of the story that to…

One of the characters in my WIP is a human guy named Ailín who possesses the Sight, which allows him to see through Fae Glamour and, in a very…

OK, so in my WIP the chapters tend to be fairly long, around 7K words. But at the moment the chapter i am working on is approaching 10K. Is this…

I’ve had an idea for a while now in my WIP, to kill off my main character half way through the story. His death wouldn’t be pointless, it would have…

I’m writing a story where two people who are close are having an argument. It’s is heated and both are quite the characters, not likely to…

It’s one of the most commonly fudged parts of a world: how much does a monster have to eat?  In a real-world ecology there’s only so much…

I was looking at the fantasy writer’s quiz and saw the comment about on-road stews and how they are unrealistic and a…

I had to create a economic system for this city and from the looks of it now, it seems to work. My…

In one of my worlds there are five moons for the planet. Along with important theological/philosophical changes to the evolution of the cultures on…

When most writers begin writing a story they worry about whether it’s best in first or third person. They spend little time wondering about which…

I think I’ve lost my mind. I’m working on the third book of my series, and like many fantasy writers, my characters and settings are heavily…

I don’t want every character to have the same dialogue or same reaction to events, I want every character to stand out from each other. I also would…

I’ve been getting feedback on my work. Story is solid, but the grammar and use of adjectives needs work. My trouble with commas is getting me…

So, I know that there are a lot of threads posted about magic, and here I am adding to yet another one, but there are so many interesting and…

I’m developing further an old idea/plot and I’ve became stuck in a important point. So, let me explain.
That is three people, cursed with…

I have a minor hiccup in my story at the moment. After spending a lot of time walking, hiking, sneaking… to the climax of the story, I am needed to…

This is more of a rant than anything else, but I could never figure out how Robert Jordan decided what should go in a prologue and what should go in…

I’m in the planning stage, I have a notebook that I take everywhere with me to jot down ideas. Recently I’ve landed on one that I really like the…

I won’t get to this story for a while, but I’ve been thinking about it recently, and there’s no harm in laying the groundwork. The story involves a…

I need help with this. I’m having a hard time trying to tell the reader background information without dragging them out of the story. Here’s the…

Because I suck with punctuation.  Is there a difference between types of ellipses and dashes?  I see a lot of books using “. . .” and I’m using…

I’m interested to see to what extent copyright can be used in books, in terms with naming places and people etc. I drew up my fantasy map a year ago…

I wanted to get an idea of what others thought about my concept and preliminary story plan for the first book in the series—I had originally intended…

Dialogue is something I struggle with more than anything in writing, and it’s not that I can’t write good dialogue, it’s just I don’t plan what the…

We are supposed to be describing are story through our character’s pov but it is not in first person. Since it is in third would it be acceptable to…

My story is set in a sort of post apocalyptic setting and the world is full of cannibalistic savages who travel/hunt together to stay alive. When I…

I have this character, let’s call her Hannah, who is a transgender woman. She has a conflict that relates to her gender, indirectly, but it doesn’t…

As of right now I have the first 26 chapters of my novel outlined and ready to go (adding in foreshadowing, symbolism, etc. each day). I’m stuck at…

It is no secret that I hold Steven Erikson in high regard. In his latest novel, The Forge of Darkness, Steven Erikson lays thick various…

On my world there is a magically created desert about 450 miles across where the average daytime temperature is about 20 degrees (F) higher than the…

I my second book, “The Night and Day”, my main character, Arylos, has to teach my secondary character, Iris, how to perform Alchemy in order to…

It’s something that has plagued me for the last few weeks, I only began writing my story a month or so ago, and now a couple of chapters in, I am…

I was wondering, how unrealistic is it to sell a screenplay to a studio or production team? I’m pretty interested that I could perhaps…

I’ve been thinking about this the last few days, especially after my kid sister just came home with a bag full of Nancy Drew books…

AAP reports e-books now account for over 22 percent of US publishers’ revenue…

I’m having a crisis of faith at the moment and need someone to talk me off my mental ledge.  Without miring everyone in endless details, my WIP…

Found it interesting that a big name author is going self pub.  Bestselling fantasy author Terry Goodkind is self-publishing his next novel,…

I’ve come to a bit of impasse. The more I analyze it the more I doubt the beginning I’ve created. It’s only the first chapter or two I’m concerned…

I’ve started writing out a few chapters of my story, to find that perhaps my writing has taken it’s toll from too many movies. It’s fine normally but…

I realised recently that wild roses appear in my writing a lot. Initially they were something associated with an immortal character I wrote a novel…

This is kind of an opinion thing and I’d like a few responses to help me in plotting.  In my first book, “Gods of War”, Arylos, the…