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What I mean is, is it ... acceptable(I can't think of a better word) to make up creatures completely from your own imagination, or new species, or to use existing species, but to change their fundamentals to your own tastes/storyline? Or is it more popular if existing rules and species are used...

This is pretty much the stage I am at, in terms of developing my skill academically :D

I don't plan on doing a degree in Literature (in fact, Medicine is my plan), but I still want to be a good writer, even if I don't get published, just for the sake of being able to put the worlds in my head onto paper in a good way. So, the question is; is having a degree in literature...

I've written childish short stories before... Moreover, I am currently working on a collab novel with 2 close friends, and it's 30,000+ words in, so I don't feel as if length, and filling it in is a daunting thing. I am just self concious about whether my actual idea, the plot line, is mature...

With the collab story I am doing with my friends, I expect it will get longer - we've written the first draft very basically, not paying attention to the language style and the atmospheric details and focusing more on the plot line. Then again, there is a lot we plan to cut and change, so who...

Thank you for all your advice - I am new at this so I am finding it hard to choose a right way of writing, but your responses have been very helpful :)

It hasn't been easy; a lot of nagging and whining and borderline arguments about small details. Each of us is writing from the point of view of 3 different characters so it's difficult to keep our minds on the same path, but it's working so far and we hope in the future to be able to maybe get...

The thing with me, I have recently realised, is that I am too careful with my ideas, and feel like I am not "allowed" to write and create in a certain way. In other words, half my mind when working on a creation is saying "Is this appropriate? Is this the right way to do it? Am I doing it...

My name is Mona, but to be honest I prefer to go on line by Insa. I am currently 16 years old. I am more of an artist than a writer if I am honest, and most of my day dreamt ideas end up in a sketchbook rather than in the form of a written story. However, recently, I have been building up a...