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To get an agent or not? This decision is a crucial one in your writing career so in this article we'll examine some of the 'fors' and 'againsts' of agents for fiction writers.

Life is a book. No saying can hold more truth than that one short quote. Life is indeed a book waiting to be written. Ideas for the best novels and stories often come from the authors past experiences, what they observe, or what they hear from people around them.

Should authors approach more than one publisher at once?

The main or lead character in any story is a lynchpin and has very definite qualities. Miss one of these and your story may well grind to a halt! This article takes a look at three crucial aspects of the main character.

The short story market often demands tight word counts from the writer. Here are some tips on how to keep that word count under control!

Get your characters talking well and you create a new dimension in your book. Here are the strategies you can use to make it happen.

Need inspiration to write that next big novel? Object identification can help stir the creative juice.

Fan fiction is fun to write, but does it help a writer craft narrative and plot or does it hinder an aspiring author's personal progress?

Suffering writer's block? Don't just sit and do nothing, kvetch about it and watch the words come easily!

Quantum Mechanics are baffled by time because on the level below the atom, particles do strange things, even disappearing and reappearing. Does time really exist or is it just the way we have chosen how to structure the world? The following article can be considered a thought experiment.