Seriously. Have heightened my standards. Most of the books I read have to have at least one female major character.Also, there are very few vamp books out there I like. (Most of them tend to have a Gary-Stu/Mary-Sue thing going on.) And it's the same thing with a lot of the faerie books. (Though I must say, I do enjoy all the books by Cassandra Clare.I guess another I can't stand is a weak...

As I'm sure you're aware of, Twilight has become quite a fad, while half the people absolutely despise Twilight, the other half love it. Honestly, I have mixed feelings on it.First of all, I do agree with people that Twilight has flaws. First of all, the scene were Edward admits that he "followed" Bella by reading peoples mind, I find creepy. Maybe I'm alone on this, but I think that Edward comes...

I've noticed that a lot of my characters are at least loosely based on me. Even the comical ones that are larger than life.For example, I have an extreme Twi-Hard whose obsessed with Edward Cullen/ Robert Pattenson. Though I am no longer a Twi-Hard, and was never obsessed with Rob, I did go through the Twilight phase.And another character is obsessed with anime and manga. Though I do enjoy, the...

One of the things that bothers me most is that a lot of people don't even bother to comment on the story they read.Imagine this. You go to your page and look at the information on of your newer stories. Readers: 30, Subscribers: 14, and Comments: 2.Now, this may be only me, but I will wonder right away why the majority of my subscribers didn't feel the need to comment on my story. If they loved it...

Hi, this is my first time doing a journal entry, and I'm going to start off with the things I hate, because something tragic happened to me with my writing today, which is number one.5.) When you get writers block. Nothing sucks more than knowing it's a story that needs to be told, yet when attempt to come up with the rest...nothing.4.)You and your character don't seem to agree what should happen....