Despite writing being an art with a multitude of approaches, most of the writers I’ve talked to or heard speak have a certain number of qualities in common. One of those qualities is that, at some point, most writers reach a point where they feel they’ve reached a plateau, and look for help in getting [...]

Disclaimer: Each writer in a highly unique individual. No two are similar. Therefore the following list has nothing to do with reality. The author has never met any of the kinds of writers described below—not that being one of them would be a bad thing.

Glitter McPink: Loves unicorns and rainbows. Wants to save Christmas and [...]

My friend and I, we wrote a story once. It was a CSI clone that we creatively called CSI:Washington after staying up late discussing it. We created five main characters and a huge additional cast. During the following months, we created the characters’ backgrounds, histories and very complicated (yet highly amusing and entertaining) love lives. [...]

Not too long ago, I was perusing the Q&A section on my LinkedIn profile, and saw a question posted in one of the groups I belong to about selling a book to publishers. The person who posted the question was basically asking if he/she needed to include foul language and sex in the story being [...]

We’ve been working hard over the past few weeks on a big update that we just released today. Read on for details!
Karma Changes
We’ve changed the amount of karma you receive from critiques on non-review queue works. Previously, if you wrote a critique over 125 words on a work that wasn’t on the review [...]

Ever get tired of your characters? Maybe you’re writing a novel, or an interconnected series of short stories, or maybe it’s a narrative poem, but whatever the form, you get to a certain place and you look at the page and you think, “Man, that character has got to go. I’m going to kill him/her/them [...]