Posts by FlyingPiMonster
I am working on a story in which the characters must solve a mystery. It's a "team-building exercise" at school, in which they must work together. They are graded on how well they work together and...
Spend less time describing the nervousness, and more time describing what is making your characters nervous. Neither of them moved a muscle. Elias could hear his own heartbeat; he could even he...
Put it down and read it later. It can hard to tell whether you are properly conveying an emotion while you are writing. You are the author; of course you know what emotion you want readers to expe...
It's okay to have a world without ever writing a story set in it. Nobody is telling you that you have to do anything with your world; sometimes it's fun to just imagine. That's perfectly fine. If ...
I write in a notebook with a pen. This way, I can't go back and edit anything until I've finished. This forces me to accept what I've written--it's only a first draft anyway. I'll fix it later, on...
I have discovered that I am most definitely not a pantser, especially when writing longer pieces. The last couple of times I've tried to write a novel, I didn't feel like I was writing enough. I di...
