I am currently suffering from Backspace Syndrome, the condition in which the pinky finger of my right hand involuntarily presses the backspace button, so often that any new words I have written for my story are erased. It doesn't just affect my creative writing. I have trouble writing short emails and LiveJournal posts. Seriously, I could only get ( Read more... )

A handy article I came across ( Read more... )

Did you know that as of this september, I will be a member of FP for nine years? NINE years? It is amazing how time flies. I am currently uploading parts of my second finished novel in those nine years. Some part of me feels like - this is all I've accomplished in nine years? But another part of me knows that I finished other projects, like my ( Read more... )

Hi, I'm new here. In fact, I just joined and saw that this community had not been updated since April! I felt that there was a need (in me, anyway) to change that. So here I am!

A little intro about me:
( About mee! )

oh god. i want to stab my eyes with a pitchfork ( Read more... )

NERD reference, yeahhh ( Read more... )

Anyone doing it this year? I did it last year and won (but wrote a really crappy story in the process...hmmm) and I'm going to try again this year. Fingers crossed I can still graduate this year!
Any ideas of genre / title / theme or anything?
I'm just being nosy :)

Sorry if this post comes out not very well defined- multi tasking just isn't possiblel to me anymore, haha.  But anyway:

How does one plan out their stories?

I've come across a lot which are like- 'this is gonna be 20 chapters long' or whatever, but does that actually work?  I know people work in different ways when it comes down to planning, with ( Read more... )

Not really a debate, but a topic of discussion ( Read more... )

Coming from someone who is heavily influenced by the anime/manga craze, what do you guys think of the manga section on FictionPress?

I have heard people complain about it, saying that manga = visual art form, and therefore the stories in that particular category on FP are not "manga" but simply manga-inspired fiction. I somewhat agree with them, ( Read more... )