This is advice from one of the greatest American Authors to a young inexperienced writer. For those of you overseas, Ernest Hemingway is considered one of Americas classics, and he stands along side greats like Edgar Allen Poe, Raymond Chandler, Mark Twain, and Herman Melville.

Good advice for beginners and a great Writing Exercise

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sjw08QKel8

I'm a big horror and mystery fan. If you like Sherlock Holmes or Agatha Christie, you will LOVE Nero Wolfe.

Here is the first episode of the best reproduction ever made of the Nero Wolfe Mysteries. Fantastic actors and faithful to the books. Wolfe is a recluse who NEVER leaves his house.

The Golden Spiders Piolet

To everyone following my stories. I'm primarily a horror writer because I suffer from serious depression and I can do horror seriously easily. Happy MLP type tales, I never thought I could wright. To wright MLP i have to be in a special mind-space. My life right now is a house fire. Both me and my husband are seeing other people... and Im seldom sober these days anymore. To those Authors I helped I'm proud to have helped you and Im sorry that I failed you.

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This story is very much one of its time. It comes from a time in FimFiction history where unwarranted abuse and violence against the main character was common, and the response to extreme abuse from that character was always undeserved forgiveness. The fact that we as a group, thought this was normal, deeply disturbs me as both a writer and a reader. But that is who we were as a fandom back then. We expected the hero to be violated by the world and we expected the hero to forgive the abuse,

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Screwing around the internet like we all tend to do, I came across an interesting chart. A chart on character flaws. I have thought of character flaws, I think we all have, but I never put very much thought into it. The chart cut Character flaws into four distinct categories.

Minor character flaws

Major character flaws

Fatal character flaws

And finally, Tragic character flaws

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The hero's journey concept in writing and how it can be used in villains.

This focuses mostly on the show Arcane, but the review covers the writing concept pretty well and the slant it takes on using it for villains is interesting.

If it doesn't start at the beginning, pleas do so.
The hero's Journey

Monk

Hello all,

If anyone around the world wants to watch a hurricane kick the crap out of my city, you can watch it live here on our local news station.

WFTV CHANNEL 9 NEWS.

I often get questions about my quotes and my quotes list. Mostly the questions are friendly, but there are those who see the quotes as me being arrogant or seeing them as a child like cry for attention. The truth is that I've been collecting these quotes for a decade now. Each one of these quote is one that made me stop reading a story here and think to my self, 'Dam, thats profound,' or one that made me genuinely laugh. I do this as a "Thank You" to the Authors on this site who donate

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Hello all,

Ive come across several stories recently that were really struggling and the Authors weren't really sure why. My comments to these have all been on the same topic, so I figured that I would point this out here for the newer writers to think about.

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How great people made a dumpster fire and the worst anime in history OR, what YOU should avoid.

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