Steven Drennon
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See all 36 »Are there specific characteristics that one should strive for when trying to develop a strong female character? Is it truly dependent on the genre of the book, or are there certain elements that ca...
2 answers · posted 15y ago by Steven Drennon · last activity 7y ago by System
I don't believe there is any way that anyone outside of Amazon could truly answer this. The best anyone could hope for would be to guess or speculate, and that's not what this site is about. As fo...
posted 12y ago by Steven Drennon
This is one of those questions where everyone is going to have a different opinion, so ultimately the final answer is up to you. We can help you consider options, but you have to make the final cho...
posted 15y ago by Steven Drennon · last activity 7y ago by System
Lauren has some very good advice there, but the one thing I would add would be a timeline. If the stories you already have are tied together in any way, then try to lay them out on a timeline to sh...
posted 15y ago by Steven Drennon · last activity 7y ago by System
I have a setting in one of my stories where a character has to describe a very long series of events, giving the history of an object so that others know more about it. This not only provides the r...
3 answers · posted 15y ago by Steven Drennon · last activity 7y ago by System
Someone on another forum asked for advice on a sentence she was writing, so I thought I'd share it here and see what kind of responses we could get. The sentence in question is marked by italics. (...
0 answers · posted 15y ago by Steven Drennon · last activity 7y ago by System
The fastest way to take advantage of the current publicity that is focused on Steve Jobs would be to self-publish your book. You can go to Amazon Kindle to get it out as an e-book and have it avail...
posted 15y ago by Steven Drennon · last activity 7y ago by System
Does anyone have or know of a list of magazines (print or online) accepting submissions for short stories? It would be nice if it could be broken out by genre and payment rates (if applicable).
1 answer · posted 15y ago by Steven Drennon · last activity 7y ago by System
I have the same problem. What I did to handle it was to start writing down an outline or synopsis of the new story ideas as they came to me. This allowed me to get them out of my head and store the...
posted 15y ago by Steven Drennon · last activity 7y ago by System
As I mentioned in my edited version of the original question, this is a question that was presented to one of the other writer's groups that I am a part of, and I wanted to see what folks here thou...
posted 15y ago by Steven Drennon · last activity 7y ago by System
DRM (digital rights management) is being used in just about every electronic format, including files used in electronic readers. My question is whether this is a good thing or a bad thing for write...
3 answers · posted 15y ago by Steven Drennon · last activity 7y ago by System
I believe it depends on whether you are trying to be personable or professional. If you want to have the reader feel that they are reading comments directly from you, in a personal manner, then the...
posted 15y ago by Steven Drennon · last activity 7y ago by System
For my epic fantasy novel I used index cards to identify some of the key characteristics of most of the characters. This helped me whenever I had to reference a character that I hadn't used in a co...
posted 15y ago by Steven Drennon · last activity 7y ago by System
In my experience with self-publishing e-books, I have found that a lot of authors will use flash fiction or short stories as freebies to encourage people to buy their longer works. I also know seve...
posted 15y ago by Steven Drennon · last activity 7y ago by System
My first fantasy novel was told from the perspective of the good guys AND the bad guys. Each had their own respective goals and when the story was centered around one or the other, the reader was s...
posted 15y ago by Steven Drennon · last activity 7y ago by System
