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Or the twin is just in the MC's head (didn't used to be, though). And the bowl of soup is really just an allegory for the sister she drowned.

So, the medieval Middle-East was the center of science and culture at that time. That's why so many visible stars have Arabic names. It's not an accident that the European Renaissance started with contact with the Middle-East. In all honesty, I know so little about the region's history in any...

1. Wherein the Author Sups on Honeydew Numbers work great. When I do want a name, I either make a pun related to the plot or reference some not entirely irrelevant poem.

Inner voices come and go. I have one persistant one. When, I'm in practice at meditating, I can for several more. For dnd and authoring, I find it useful to fragment my consciousness into the minds of my characters. Sadly, I'm not so good at it anymore. The sleep paralisys as annoying...

I'm at the other end of the spectrum. My chapters are often less that 1000 words. IMHO, chapter length is totally dependant on the content. Did you spend your entire vocabulary waxing eloquent about the sewers of Paris circa 1810 or maudlin about the slang of street urchins? If so, shorten...

So... Stats and RPGs. Guessing from the responses, there aren't any many table-top, d20 gamers in this crowd. In DnD and similar games systems, stats are used to estimate a person's innate, untrained ability to perform a task relevant to the stat in question. The original intent of these stats...

I'm going to give this a bump. Most of us know what different expressions look like, so this is powerful. When you want to describe an expression directly, adjectives are your friend. - Ed looked a me with a wan smile. - Kara pick up the salamander with a goofy grin. - Norman gave a pensive...

Hmm... That's all really good guidance. One note, you are usually better off just starting a new setence instead of using, "said, as." Reserve "as" for those cases where simultaneity is important. Most of the time in English, the sequencing of events is implicit and indicated by word order...

As I said, the active voice should be the default. Certainly, you'll find times when the passive voice is prefered or even necessary. A clever author could, indeed, capitalize on the counterpoint between active and passive speaking, but make sure your use of the passive voice is judicious and...

It's always very hard to proofread your own work. If you can find some poor sod to give your work a once over and catch the most egregious errors, that's alway best, but if you must proofread your own writing, write your chapter several days ahead of when you plan to post it, then read it after...

Be specific, but don't wallow in detail. Avoid inner monologueing unless you're William Faulkner. Write in the active voice, Do Not use -ing for anything. Feel free to use onomopea. Then, just write the scene like it happens. ======== Josh stood, his stool clattered to the ground behind...