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Best of wordy luck to you! :)

Anyone here signed up for Camp in August?

Check out the Web Fiction Guide at Web Fiction Guide | free online novels, story collections, reviews. You can search by ranking and popularity (among other things). Epiguide is also pretty good for the same. EpiGuide - Web Series & Web Entertainment Community but a bit more forum based I...

This is astoundingly cool news (and well worth my return to the MS forums after a long, long absence!) I've been noodling with a new web series recently, with plans to crack it out officially for Camp Nanowrimo in August. Now this is happening in August too, well that just seems like too much...

I've been thinking a lot about music and writing recently. While I can't write with music on, I like to look for inspiration in songs or albums and I've enjoyed writing a few different things "based" on a particular album or playlist. Except my current WIP is absolutely music-less. I can't...

Kamu Buddy me up if you like.

Not really a true captive situation to need to think like that.... yes she was tied up, but it was a "for your own safety" kind of thing. Doesn't really matter now though, the scene has been rewritten so many times it hardly resembles anything of the original. No lock picking required...

Nano! Woo! I love Nanowrimo, having done it for the last 4 (even if that first year I didn't even get close to winning). I think that high velocity novel writing can be harmful to the work sometimes, but I excuse that during November and just let words spew as fast as they can. I've a small...

That's a great way to clarify the distinction. Will keep that in mind. :) Right. All your punctuation goes inside the quotation marks. In the case of your example, I'm fairly certain there's a full stop after 'mean', not a comma: "I can see what you mean." He waved the cigar..... It...

It's a business, and a weird one at that. I was reading this article the other day. By the sounds of it, publishers are grabbing up each and every manuscript from each and every new writer out there in the hope of not missing out on the next JK Rowling, but I wonder how close that is to the...

I'm reading through a draft I wrote a few years ago, and one of the (many) terrible things that jumps out at me is the dialogue. A lot of it is blow for blow one liners and useless verbal meandering. A quick look in a couple of "how to write" types of books suggested that the dialogue should...

The person who awakens these shapeshifting abilities does so without realising that she has the inherent supernature. So... the way I figured it out this afternoon was to give her an existing condition, which could very reasonably be put down to a medical condition, but it turns out it was her...

The western is still around though, so it hasn't died, merely quiet.

I'm going to steal that line! :) I have strong spiritual beliefs and practices, but nothing officially religious.

While I've never played the game, I was obsessed with painting and collecting LOTR Citadel miniatures for a long time. The joy! The frustration! The unbelievable expense! I packed them all away a little while ago - I wanted the shelf for books. But may go back to it again someday. Actually, I...