We like to encourage new writers, and are fortunate in that there is a steady trickle of new authors coming through the ranks. It can be quite a big thing, plucking up courage to submit that first story - especially given that we are a library as opposed to an exclusively forum-based site. With the latter, people can post pretty much anything with little or no editorial control, whereas here, we do expect a basic level of spelling, grammar, dialogue and pre formatting.
Writing dialogue can be tricky at first, and many people struggle with wondering where to put the speech marks and whether the punctuation goes inside or outside of the speech marks. They might forget to use a separate line for each person that is speaking, or they may forget to use question marks and full stops at the end of sentences.
We will shortly be making available a page of information for authors, but in the meantime I wondered if there are any established authors who would be willing to devote some of their spare time in mentoring someone new to writing?
This would presumably work by an exchange of emails between the two parties concerned, and could perhaps facilitate a discussion of plot, sub plot, use of the appropriate tense and grammar, paragraph breaks, dialogue and so forth.
Any willing volunteers, please make yourselves known via popup
Many thanks, flopsy
(hides under the desk to avoid being trampled in the rush)
