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Hah! I love some of these lines! I remember, back in high school (UK high school, not US) when we were always told that the key to a good story was a good first line. It's stuck with me ever since, and I spend half my time thinking up new first lines. Some are okay, some not. They were ready...

Agents are always after new ideas. They always say they don't want something, but as everyone else said, they'll still take old ideas with new twists if the writing's good. Think about it, though. Hasn't most writing already been done? A writer can think they have a really great idea, but...

I have trouble with this. My plots always tend to be WAY bigger than I first plan them to be. For instance, (I can't yet comment on my fantasy trilogy, as it's HUGELY complicated with several different big plots swirling around each other), my horror trilogy, The Hybrid Theory, is quite complex...

Don't worry, no offence taken at all! Yes, I do have a tendency to over-indulge myself in describing beautiful characters - I don't like to make anybody ugly, which is not a good thing. I'm taking some time to reconsider the whole angle of the story, the MASSIVE scale of it, (there's so much...

Thanks for all your comments guys (and I use that in the loosest of terms instead of 'people' :D ). I'll bear in mind everything you've said, and take everything into consideration for the re-drafts. I appreciate you reading it. Oh yeah, there is action later on in the chapter, this is...

Yes, I had someone else mention the 'redhead' bit. I'll bear that in mind when I re-draft. I have no dwarves, goblins or orcs, I do have elves, but they're hardly mentioned and very much NOT the flouncy LOTR style. Thanks for the comments, much appreciated!

In the darkness of the evergreen forests riding the slopes of the glacial mountains of Kakami, four Rangers watched the village sleep. The two men, Morrice and Riko, hugged their swords close to their chests, narrowing their eyes to squint through the gloom. They perched on a rocky outcrop...

I love babynames.com! It's my all time favourite sight for getting character names. Glad someone else uses beside me. So much easier than thinking up my own. They never sound half as good. ^_^

HAH! That made me laugh, even though I am an antelope. Granted, not a wheedling, whining short-story-to-a-magazine antelope, but a novel antelope to an agent/publisher lion. Yowch, evolution hurts. True, though. Every bit. Thanks for the basic layout of the cover letter, that is one thing...

Eck. Naming fantasy characters is definitely my demon. I like the strange, exotic names, but I hear many readers don't, so it's keeping them simple, without being dull. I've actually been frequenting a babynames website, which has thousands of names in all nationalities, and they all mean...

That sounds like a good idea. I'll have to peek through such links when I have the chance. I'm self-published, released my first book last year. Now comes the serious marketing stuff, but I'd still rather have an agent. I just couldn't get hold of one last year and I am, sadly, a very impatient...

I've been musing a similar idea. Whilst I love writing my own stuff, I am also (*eventually*) going to write a two-part novel with a friend. She came up with one character, I write the rest. I also have another friend who has all the ideas, but can't write the work. I wouldn't mind writing it...

I guess I joined to dabble, too. I wish I could draw, I really do, as it would make filing my characters soo much easier, but alas, I cannot. I'm a major writer, I started writing small trilogies and such when I was seven. I published my first *proper* book last year, and am now working on the...