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This is one of my favorites but I can't for the life of me remember who said it. I do remember it was a woman. "Writing is easy. You just sit in front of the keyboard and open a vein." Anyone know who said it? That was said by Walter Wellesley "Red" Smith , a well-known American...

This is one of my favorites but I can't for the life of me remember who said it. I do remember it was a woman.

"Writing is easy. You just sit in front of the keyboard and open a vein."

Anyone know who said it?

Thanks, Krista G. I completely forgot the part about the magic in his blood...oops! And I'm a little torn about the last sentence as well. I like the first one, but this second one better represents the conflict of the book. It's a bit more accurate, though less enticing. I'll have to think about it...

Those are great! Now I'm scouring my brain for jokes like that.

*smoke begins pouring from ears*

I think I'll have to get back to you...

According the mental_floss magazine, the highest temperature ever recorded was in Iran. It was 159 degrees.

Just FYI, the lowest was in Antarctica. It was -128.

EMC, I do the exact same thing. I'm writing along on the beginning of my new WIP and I think "ooh, I know how I want this scene in the middle of the book to go!" So I put in about five hard returns in my document and start writing that. Right now I'm 12,000 words into my newest WIP - about...

I think I would fall just barely on the side of "planner" rather than "pantser." I have giant white boards in my office that I keep my WIP's outline on, though usually it's very vague and not terribly far ahead of where I'm writing. I tend to use it more to help me remember the e...

Here's my new version. Feedback would be greatly appreciated!! --- When Tsenian “Windrunner” stumbles through a strange portal, a horde of hideous creatures – the mazahnen – are released from their imprisonment. The portal spits him into a desert with the beasts on his heels. A beautiful priestess n...

Thanks LBender and Emily J for your input! Krista G. - I was hoping that people would wonder why it's Windrunner's fault, and that it would be enough intrigue to pull them into the story. I tried putting in a little more explanation, but then it gets really muddy and the opening doesn't have any imp...

You know, we Arizonans joke that "at least it's a dry heat." I lived in Kansas for one year and holy cow, we really are lucky on that!! I'll take 110 w/ 10% humidity WAY before 90 w/ 80% humidity. I hiked through Petra, Jordan when it was 130 once and that was more tolerable than a super-h...

Quill wrote:And at least it's not Phoenix, which is always fifteen or more degrees warmer.

Thank God it's not Phoenix!! I can handle the 105 much better just knowing that I'm not in Phoenix.

(GO CATS!!)

Thanks sbs_mjc1! I absolutely love your first paragraph, would you mind if I keep it?

I appreciate the rest of your comments, I'm working through them and clarifying a lot of points that I'd inadvertently skipped over. I appreciate your review!

At the age of ten, Cedrin Alsan accidentally pushes his cousin into a well. The injury leaves Cedrin’s cousin mentally disabled. His cousin never recovers, and Cedrin's uncle, Garan, never forgets. Good start! Cedrin grows up as the son of a shipping merchant, happy and prosperous. But while his fa...

This is a narrated story told by Janie Lloyd. Janie is a disturbed girl who fails to understand cause and effect on others and thinks only of herself. Eventually her behaviour leads to the death of two people. I chose to use Janie as narrator as I wanted to write my ‘thriller’ not from the usual de...

Hello all, I know this synopsis needs quite a bit of work, but I'm not sure what I need to do. I've never been good at writing synopses (brevity has never been my strong suit, as you can see by its length). Where are you getting hung up in my story? What doesn't make sense, or is unnecessary? Any ad...