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Reply The line breaks between sentences is nice, but stories are generally written with sentences brought together into paragraphs. I really do not want to make the above a complaint. I received the impression that you have an idea for a story and were attempting to lay down the blocks of...

Reply Okay. Thanks for sharing.

Reply Keep writing, Duvodas. As someone who writes to the internet, I understand not getting responses. Thus, I am responding. Your presentation looks and reads as a mush of words. I however can tell that you are grasping at a clear style of presentation. Stay focused. Let me give you...

Reply I wish that I could write short stories. It is the proper way to get published. So, perfect those tales and start sending them off. As you work on getting accepted, you are supposed to perfect your craft and graduate to larger stories (although, most novels today are just stretched...

Reply I admitted to being confused. Of course, getting used to an author takes time. I know that some people jumping into my stuff get confused (which confuses ME, because my math/science background often has me getting nit-picky about details, but then most people are USED to vagueness)...

Reply First, it is slightly better. 1) Please put line breaks between the paragraphs. 2) Stories are supposed to be kept in a single thread. I however agree that the 10,000 character limit is annoying. Still, why didn't you break at the end of the chapter? 3) I got confused: The...

Reply I agree with this being an improper forum. The advice is good, but I find that it applies to internet writing. These are errors usually done by the non-readers (those that type something up and immediately post without checking). Trust me, even with a 'book house' like PublishAmerica...

Reply I would not call this a story as much as a failed thesis. No plot, and really no character development. The pitiful whining that he does not deserve death, because the SPECIES that is killing him is less noble than he (no comment at all about the persons who are acting), really gets...

Reply I have a bunch of old Infocom games, and a few from another company. I have not played them in a long time. The early ones were good, but then they started getting really obscure with what you actually needed to type ('HOLD MAGNET OVER CRACK IN FLOOR' as 'USE MAGNET ON CRACK' or such...

Reply At least once a day. I carry a book in the car, because the stop lights in our town work (very well).

Hello Welcome to the discussions. I look forward to speaking to you further.

Reply I agree with what has been said. ALWAYS EDIT! I read too much drivel from people, and when I ask them about it they say, "I thought I would get another opinion first." In other words, THEY DID NOT READ WHAT THEY WROTE. My constant reply is, "If you did not want to read it after...

Reply This is only a premise. The generalities of the topic is presented, but not enough to allow for any conclusion. Some methods of expansion for your topic are: 1) The ant is more free than us. As an ant almost never encounters the barriers of its world on its own. We however are...

Reply I tell a true story about that first Eberron novel. My brother is a truck driver, and reads whatever is available while waiting for his truck to load/unload. He was at my house waiting for some certification papers to come in. He saw the Eberron novel sitting on a table and picked it...

Reply YES! And it was some of the worse manure ever to come from a mass-market publisher. I tried to get in on the early stages of developing Eberron, so bought, read, downloaded most of the early work to prepare myself. I then waited many months for notification. Before I got any word as...

Reply Thanks for the comments, Narika. To answer your questions: 1) What does self-publishing mean? It technically means that you published a book yourself. My first book was undeniably self-published. I paid to have it published. Almost all of the work was done by me. My second...

Reply First, for such a short piece it has has plenty of errors. This tells me that you did not check it at all before posting. You should respect your audience enough to make sure that most glaring errors are caught before they read. It allows us to focus on your story, and not your...

Reply First off, most documents today are written in word processors that will tell you word count. Thus, not a problem. As for books, count the number of characters, including spaces, across a line, divide by 5. Now count the number of lines on a page. Multiply the first number by the...

Reply Yes, the Bradbury stories were often written separately for magazines, then compiled later when Bradbury realized that he had a theme. The African Veldt story I believe is one of the most redone stories. It was published a few times, and then it has almost constantly been redone in...

Reply I am borrowing the books from a friend. I only started reading them in order to debate the topic with others. I have only seen the first two movies, and I have now finished the fifth book. In my opinion: Book One is a lot better movie than book. Book Two is a lot better book...