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Light novels are the Japanese equivalent of a young adult aimed book. My question pertains to how many pages it normal is and whether it is in 1st or 3rd person.
Light novels are the Japanese equivalent of a young adult aimed book. My question pertains to how many pages is it normally and whether it is in 1st or 3rd person. — Also, what’s the shortest?
- dtsxavid

I have to find these things that is about nature. and also why is nature important in the thing.
1. 1 Short story
2. One novel
3. One play
4. One piece of non-fiction.

Thank you very much for the help. Hope this will help me with my assignment that is due in 2 more days.
- navy

It’s past mid month…who started and gave up? Anyone still in it? What’s your word count? Anyone want to share their novel link? Mine is “Dragon’s Lineage” located at my Myspace blog http://blog.myspace.com/cathie111

I post almost everyday! Word count currently: 22,594
- cathy_cmr

I am wanting to start writing, but want to start off slow. Is it good to start off writing a short story, or am I just being lazy. should I just jump into an attempt at a novel? Please help, I have great Ideas, and people tell me I’m a great story teller, but I want to take it to another level. I just don’t know much about the ‘next level’.
- jeremy h

i’m on 7,000 words…my name is youthinkicanwriteanovel….mail me if you wantto be buddies
- JB lover, John Barrowman that is

sometimes said that the creative mind is a free mind, and I find that to be absolutely true. Enjoying a mid-summer breeze with nothing but a notebook and a pencil can be an exhilarating, if not euphoric experience. Creativity is often shrugged off as something people are born with, but I believe we all have a “creative us” deep down inside. You don’t have to necessarily be a writer to take full advantage of the wonders that writing can produce. Doing this daily or even weekly can dramatically increase your mood, and help you to catalog your feelings and cope with stress better.

Starting a journal is a great way to begin the writing for self help process, as you’ll be taking events from your day and expressing how you reacted to them or how they made you feel. Even the smallest parts of your day can have a profound effect on you when you take the time to look back and reflect on them. I find that keeping organized dates and logs of my events allows me to plan better for the future, and make better decisions based on my past actions. Also, it’s highly entertaining to go back and read your journals as it’s almost like a novel of your life. When compared to other forms of writing for self help, starting a journal truly takes a top spot for the most rewarding.

Another type of writing that helps tremendously with coping or stress is poetry. Just a few lines of deep, heart-felt words can be very soothing on the mind and the soul. Contrary to popular belief, a poem doesn’t have to rhyme. By simply letting out a few lines about your day, you’ll have a very nice catalog of your feelings in no time. Even if your poem is just ‘I saw the sun today, it was gorgeous’, this is an awesome description of how you felt. Later, you’ll return to your journal in times of need, as the “true you” cannot help but be revealed through creative writing.

Find a quiet place to relax with a notebook, and write about how your day went today. What’s the most exciting thing that happened to you? Did you laugh? Did you cry? How did you feel when you woke up? Answering these kinds of questions in your journal is the first step to using creativity for self help, and believe me, you’ll be surprised at how much better you’ll feel for doing it. For mor self help tips visit http://www.booksonselfhelp.com


- Darrell Banks

’s block is when writers cannot think of what to write. Something is blocking them from writing. Writer’s block can be short-term or long-term. Writer’s block can be related to an actual writing project for reasons such as the writer needing inspiration, the writing project not having been a good idea, or the project just being too difficult. Writer’s block can also be completely unrelated to the actual writing project and due to problems in the writer’s personal life such as financial problems, illness, or relationships. Most writers face writer’s block at some point. When you do, we hope that you can quickly overcome your block.

We have six suggestions which may help you to recover from writer’s block.

1. Take a week off

Taking a week off may or may not work for you. You may have a deadline that cannot be delayed. Still taking a week off may be the treatment needed. Activities that may help during the week off could include walking on the beach, reading a novel, cleaning out your desk drawers, thinking about what you value in your life, and exercising.

2. Sketching

As a writer, you are probably word rather than image oriented. Doing some sketching may reduce your writer’s block. Using colored pencils, trying to think in pictures and capturing those pictures on paper with your colored pencils may help to reduce your writer’s block. One sketching approach is to draw the text you are trying to write. The other sketching approach is to ignore the text that you are blocked from writing and sketch whatever you decide you want to sketch. A third sketching approach is free sketching. You simply put your pencil on a piece of paper and keep the pencil moving in whatever direction it wants to travel.

3. Warmups

Writing warmups are an old method, which have helped many. For ten to fifteen minutes write whatever comes to mind. Don’t erase; don’t cross out anything. Just continue writing on whatever topic comes to mind. Writing warmups can be a stream of words that come into your mind. The rules of grammar and punctuation are unimportant. The goal is to just continue writing.

4. Write the conclusion

One situation you may be facing is a particular piece of writing that you have to do. You may not know how you’re going to get there, but you do have an image of the conclusion of the piece that has generated your writer’s block. A possible solution is to simply write the conclusion. In doing so, you may find the words that alleviate your writer’s block.

5. Too much work

You may just have been working too hard, and the natural response to too much work is writer’s block. If you cannot take a week off, suggestion 1, taking three hours off may reduce writer’s block symptoms. Take a long walk or take a short walk and go to see a movie. Get some exercise. Stretch your arms and legs. Make yourself something hot to drink. Tell yourself that no matter what happens you will not think about writing for three hours.

6. Thinking about writer’s block

One other treatment is thinking about writer’s block. Find yourself a comfortable place to be. Then start thinking about your writer’s block. Some questions that may help you to organize your thoughts could include (a) when did the symptoms begin, (b) what was happening prior to the onset of symptoms, (c) what have you done in the past to cure writer’s block, (d) who do you know with the same problem that you could talk with, and (e) are you simply overworked. Some people think better when they are alone; some think better with a pencil and paper; and others think better with someone else listening.

Writer’s block is a curable ailment. If you invest a little bit of time and some care, you may be able to treat your own writer’s block. We hope that our suggestions will lead you to a speedy cure.

Good luck!

Im in the middle of my book and i was wondering what do i do when im done writing it.
- Alice

So I’m writing this novel & was wondering, what are some intense, dramatic, & fierce first & last names I could use?
So I’m writing this novel & was wondering, what are some intense, dramatic, & fierce first & last names I could use?

ALSO - what are some good names for a prestigious high school?
- PK

Think it would be a book women would read more so than men?
- Sage