Recent content by Micheale

Hi everyone :) I came to these forums because I was looking for a group of other writers, to share ideas, learn some tips, develop some skills, and have some company during a very heartfelt and lonely project. Instead I have found a community of bullies, who appear to offer zero support...

I'm the total opposite. It takes me forever because I enjoy the rhythm and the syntax and creating the perfect illusion, metaphor, and description. I will sometimes sit for 2-3 hours and only create one beautiful sentance or paragraph. It has to be beautiful for me. If I sat down and just tried...

I don't mind it, like PP mentioned, if it is for symbolic reasons… However, sort of changing the names could be interesting… Like how GRRM possibly based his series off the war of the roses, with the Lancasters (Lannisters) and the Yorks (Starks).

I did a little encouraging research for you :) Margaret Mitchell took 10 years to write Gone with the Wind - her first novel. The Time Travellers Wife took 7 years - also a first novel Micheal Crichton took 8 years researching and writing Jurrasic Park, and 20 years on Sphere...

When an interviewer asked Hemmingway how long it takes him to write a book he answered "as long as it takes to finish the book". In the book "writing 21 st century fiction" the author notes that if someone says writing is easy for them, they have likely never been published. It takes George...

I just wanted to come back to say that I'm sorry if I offended anyone with my post. I do tend to be rather socially awkward, say what I'm thinking (without thinking) and have been told before (often ;) that I can be less than tactful. This is something that I will try to reign in while I...

Ok. I understand. But I don't understand how, as authors and writers we can't have difficult discussions about finding meaning in literature? I mean, the best literature throughout history has been that that was messy. That asked difficult questions and made the readers question the validity of...

Of course I'm being somewhat facetious. But in many ways, I believe, so long as you can prove your novel means something (and controversial is always better) than it will have popularity. I don't think she meant to create that theme, but anyone (like the film maker who created the documentary)...

Geez. I just find it an interesting connection is all. I wan't meaning anything by it. I have a Masters Degree in English Lit. I'm pretty much indoctrinated (lol) to find bizarre connections (usually biblical) in everything I read. I could probably go on to write an Essay on how 50 Shades is...

Ok, the only thing I could think of watching this (about how cults lure their unassuming, low self esteem victims) is that the MC who does the luring is named 'Christian'. As an agnostic I find this really funny. (Not meaning to be offensive, but maybe the author was getting at something deeper...

I've just thought of this some more, so what if: There were tall light towers (like light houses) around the city, and when the dragons came they lit the towers and spun the light around and around so it confused and blinded the dragons? If the land is inhabited by fire breathing dragons...

I agree totally with what you are saying, I just mean that how can we criticize writers like Meyers and 50 shades (don't know her name) or the woman who writes the City of Glass books (I haven't seen her name written here yet, she was also a fan fic author) for their writing when there is...

I find it fun to think of traditional enemies in non-traditional ways. This is what made The Walking Dead so appealing to me. Instead of the zombies being super strong and fast and agile and deadly they come across as sort of stupid and slow, making them deadly if they get too close, but...

I'm just wondering, and I'm new here, so I may have NO CLUE what I'm talking about… But isn't it sort of important to know your reader? I get the debate that "I just write for me and my own happiness"… but if you want to be published, you need to know your market. Shakespeare wrote "As you...

You’re back again, Kade? The creature is beginning to take shape now, in the darkness of the cell. In the light of the single, suffocating candle he can see her transforming, the jagged edges of black and cream and grey are melting away into something definite. Roundness now to her arching...