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  • ...t, what is an NA romantic mystery?  Did you mean YA?  Also, is it a mystery or a thriller?  Other than that, I just think it needs to be a little shorter.  We don't need details that...
  • ...and everyone else around her in trouble, wasn’t so… irresistible. ~ Comment: Significant grammar issues with that sentence. Easily fixed by using shorter sentences. I always read out...
  • Sara, I'm guessing gone for the summer.  I could make it shorter if I cut out the part about my human rights work, and that would shift the focus to Iz's redemption and Iz's redemptio...
  • Started by Chris Beal
    ...uch as myself, more feedback would have been useful. The events wasn't set up to allow questions, but in retrospect I wish I had made the reading shorter in order to take some, becaus...
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  • ...ate and person (no distance or feeling of a narrator like you might get with and adult-focused or literary novel). Since YA wordcount tends to be shorter, too many character POVs can...
  • ...he second book of the series is proving problematic for me. I wanted it to be better and longer than the original book, but I am finding it to be shorter and less interesting than the...
  • ...ike it, and fantasy is, in the immortal words of Austin Powers, "not my bag, baby." This query is in decent shape. The third meaty 'graf could be shorter (the one beginning "but if Rh...
  • ...300 manuscript pages (double space, 12 point) would be about average (at least that's what mine came to). However, if the story HAS to be either shorter or longer, I would go with th...
  • Candy, could you take a look at the latest posted draft? Is that any clearer? Should the first graph be shorter still?  Thanks. 
  • Hi, I'm a MC author I have 3 full length novels published and several shorter works. I hope to network with this group. I'd really like to see some blog hops focusing on IR and MC romance.