Reagan Ramm

Most YA novels are around 100k.

Playing the Numbers: Basic Word Counts

Definitely Scrivener, Evernote, and Spotify!

This is awesome! Great job, Josiah!

All great ideas! I may need to create a poll for this question. Haha!

Wow! Lot’s of good ideas! No consensus yet it sounds like though. Haha!

I’ll probably write-in Rand Paul.

Well, Florida is called the “Sunshine State” for a reason. It’s not actually very stormy, but usually warm and sunny all the time, especially during the winter. The weather is consistently nice. During the spring, though, it will rain every day at basically the same time, but not any huge storms that are bad. I experienced worse storms when I…[Read more]

I think I can put all of this debate to rest and say yes, you are allowed to post your writings here before submitting them for publication on the main site. In fact, this is encouraged! Write your story or poem or what have you, get some feedback, fix it up, and then email it to us!

Posting your works-in-progress on the forum is not considered…[Read more]

Hmm, that stinks. Let me know if it works now.

I’m originally from Ohio (yes the Wright Brothers were from Ohio therefore Ohio gets the title), but for the last 16 months I’ve been living in Florida.

No problem! 🙂

And I used PicMonkey for my profile pic. It’s really handy.

Hey! I just moved this to Novel Ideas because “Start Here” is for new members to introduce themselves. 🙂

I don’t think it’s unrealistic to write a story in which there is little diversity. In fact, including diversity can make a story unrealistic. It all depends on what kind of culture your story takes place in. The story should drive the elements, not a political agenda.

For example, if you were to write a story that took place in say, India, it…[Read more]