I think that before you worry about cutting poems from your collection you need to find a publisher. They may have some ideas about how many poems...
Well, it varies. I'm dyslexic so I try to read the poetry rather than counting the words, but I remember someone saying that The Hunting of the...
Well, I'm going to be contrary here and say just what you didn't want to hear: as long as the book needs to be. It depends what sort of poetry...
Well yes, by almost all defintions what you're writing is fantasy. The requirement you've met is that you've set the story in a secondary world....
Doing your accounts. If you're hiring out your services then you need to keep a set of accounts so that you know who's paid you - and how much you...
I think you need to read up a bit on basic economics. In an agricultural society with no mechanical aids (like the UK in the 1700s) most human...
I think you should perhaps read a couple of Dashiell Hammett's Continental Op short stories, specifically "The Big Knockover" and "$106,000 Blood...
No, never. But a believable character has to make mistakes, and that can be down to misjudging others, it can be due to not understanding...
You can do this when writing in their point of view, but the trick is not to give away too much of their thought processes. Think of characters...
Clothing has two different purposes: it can be about appearances,as at a formal ball, or it can be about function, like keeping you dry. Sometimes...
Torture is normally used to extract information from someone. It can be used to punish someone, or because the person conducting the torture...
Strangely, you don't need to do very much at all. The liturgy of the Anglican Church was and is very similar to that of the Roman Catholic Church,...
This was the back story to Arthur C Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama. If people on Earth had or could quickly build a network of telescopes with...
Depends how deep it is. If the cut is so shallow that it doesn't need stitching then the only real risk is from infection. It may hurt and bleed a...
I write the story first, fleshing out the world around the characters as I go. As I write I can see what needs to be described in the world the...
Well, I ran into a problem with this in an AD&D campaign I took part in some 35 years ago. My character (a ranger) had acquired a shield with...
I think a lot depends on what you mean by a sequel. Some writers, like JRR Tolkien and David Eddings, effectively write one long story divided...
Implicit in what you've written is that there is no possibility of redemption for those convicted of a crime. That doesn't give the convicted...
Do you need a detailed map for anyone but yourself? I'm not sure maps always add value to a story. Joe Abercrombie's books are an interesting...
I tend to listen to music whilst I write, and my choice of music depends a bit on what I'm writing. I usually start out writing with some idfea or...
