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A friend of mine found these pages and wanted us to give it a try, but I rather check first. The Next Big Writer http://www.thenextbigwriter.com/index.html Youwriteon.com http://www.youwriteon.com/ They offer free reviewing (providing one reviews as well), but they also hint at the...

Large novels tend to introduce new characters throughout the story, some even close to the end (e.g. Archie and Bonnie in GWTW; Platon Karataev in War and Peace). Is that appropriate? My novel is the first of a trilogy. Although it stands as a novel on its own, I have introduced, in the last six...

I have combed the Internet (and read several books on the subject) for information, but what I got were muddled and contradicting facts, so I am recurring to you , my next to the last hope.:D All these questions regard World War II a) Is it true that the average age of a RAF pilot at the...

I know that copying situations from a work of fiction amounts to plagiarism. What about taking a situation from a non-fiction book? Let’s say I am writing a novel about an American general in WWII, and I include (with suitable modifications) an anecdote taken from a biography of Patton, is that...

Are there still topics one shouldn’t attempt in fiction? Perhaps in certain genres? In a book I am reading, Writing Romance, the author asks a question: Can a successful romance deal with controversial issues? In theory, the answer is “Yes”, but she points out that some category publishers...

What is the number of lines from a song that you can actually quote on text without incurring in copyright infringement? Or am I doing it just by quoting a line? Should lyrics in a foreign language be translated?

My characters are cosmopolitan, polyglot and my story takes place in different countries, therefore I tend to include terms and full sentences in foreign languages. The protagonist and her family use a sort of personal lingo that mixes word from several languages. To me, raised in a bilingual...

My novel is getting to be so long, that someone advised me to divided it and turn it into a trilogy, but I don’t know how to submit it, if and when. I see that the market is crowded with sequels and series, but how do they work? Does the author know he is writing a novel in several volumes, or...

First of all, G-d Bless whomever invented this site because it´s the answer to all my prayers. I am almost finishing my novel or at least the first volume (is a trilogy) and it´s been an agony. I am still crammed with doubts, but now that I found a place where some of those doubts might be...