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The harry potter series, almost a dozen times. Inheritance cycle was also a favourite, but harder to read as many times because of the length. I read deltora quest quite a few times, but somehow managed to lose the 'valley of the lost' twice. As in, I lost it, borrowed it from someone, then lost...

You can also follow the authors. If they're nice, they'll make a profile post when they post a chapter, and you get a notification. ...I think.

How long is a piece of string?

One time I was just in the car on the way home. All of a sudden, a fragment of storyline came into my head, along with a name. I checked it later, and the name's meaning fit the character's personality and story so much it was almost scary. Pretty much the only time i've jotted something down as...

I did some recommendations as well. What I would recommend you do is read over the chapter again to refresh yourself of what happened in that chapter, then write the chapter again, as if you were writing a new chapter, but you're just more planned out then usual. Check back with the old version...

My feedback: work on your description of your novel. From the above, it sounds like every VRMMO novel that has ever existed, but with less originality and exciting things.

Make sure to note down ideas so you don't forget them. Before starting to write, decide whether you'll write in third or first person, from which character's perspective and in what tense. Make sure you pay attention to your tenses, as you're probably liable to slip up quite a bit when you're...

Really? I checked one of the chapters of your story here on scribblehub, and it almost looked like the opposite. There was barely two paragraphs in the entire chapter, everything was just individual lines with barely more than a single 'and' to be seen.

It would depend on the context. (note I haven't read it) If the word is used by a person of a high station (noble, from a rich family, etc) this is a perfectly good use of the word, as it would cause the speaker to sound more educated. I wouldn't commonly use it outside that context, but I...

nil... I'm already in the middle of writing/posting, so stocking up chapters would mean stopping posts for quite a while... And with how rarely I post them already, people would not be happy.

fantasy, a bit of action, a bit of adventure, a bit of comedy... My 3rd novel (currently planning to start it after I finish my current two novels) will be quite outside my comfort zone in genre, main character and pretty much everything. I'll have to do a lot of research before I start it...

Happened to me at the start, as well. I think it happens to a lot of us, at the start. Don't worry about it. Every time I go back and edit old chapters I curse my past self's ineptitude, even after I've edited the same chapter multiple times. Writing's a learning process.

Now, when you say middle, do you mean middle as in the chunk of the story in between the beginning or the end or middle as in the part of the story directly after whatever you already have? If after what you already have, just keep in mind recent events and characters and think how they would...

A lot of heroes in stories aren't really heroes. They have power, they do good deeds, but if s**t really starts to hit the fan they turn and run or prioritise their own safety or the safety of their friends, sometimes at the expense of many, many others. A real hero doesn't just protect others...

These resources look pretty interesting. Thanks.

how it seems to be for me so far: 1. Plan beginning 2. Plan end 3. Plan various miscellaneous events, characters and other things throughout the story 4. Spend a while thinking hard about how to get from where I am to the next event or character 5. Write chapter 6. Repeat steps 4-5

I haven't really noticed this myself, but I sometimes find myself looking up the meanings of words, Mostly to check they mean what I think they mean. Sometimes I have to search around to find the word that's most accurate to what I want to describe, but I don't think I'd ever describe my stories...

No Problem. That's part of the reason I mentioned it might be a non-issue, though - If you weren't aware of it, it would be an issue, but if you were already aware and you have plans that need to be introduced later in the story, then it's all well and good.

Bit of a shame nobody else has posted. I read your story, and it's pretty good so far. Grammar is fine, story is interesting... I would probably advise against using exclamation marks as an expression of alarm or astonishment, though. It can work in games, but if you think about it, exclamation...

The flashbacks I have in my stories are from the perspective of the character remembering events, and is narrated by them. That, coupled with the fact that I write flashbacks in past tense whereas I normally write in present tense, I think makes it fairly obvious.