The best advice I've ever recieved is to give every character more than one role in the story. Not just love interest, but love interest AND antagonist. That sort of thing. Also, when one minor character has become indespensible to the main character and seems to be taking over the story...kill him. Though that doesn't apply to my short story work so much. It's hard to have "minors" when I only have six characters!

~Bitter Irony

If you write something, look at it the next day. If you still like it, you've got something.

Life: just stick it through. JESUS! stop whining

- Before you can learn to bend the rules, hell even break them, you have to master them. This way you know which rules can be broken and which ones will get you shot for trespassing. (9th/11th grade English teacher)

worse writing advice I have ever been given:

- If you write about something you love the grammar mistakes will just disappear (expository writing teacher who taught me nothing)

1. Forums are not to be used to post stories.
2. All discussions, language and content, must be suitable for teens.
3. The owner/moderator(s) of this forum is solely responsible for content posted within this area.
4. All forum abuse must be reported to the moderator(s).

1. Forum admin/moderator
2. Fanatic (on site for more than 2 years)
3. Fan (on site for more than a year)
4. Regular (on site for more than 6 months)
5. Camper (on site for more than a month)
6. Apprentice (on site for more than a week)
7. Newbie (on site for less than a week)