So, first let me explain something:

I have a summer job.
This summer job is in the same city as the school I go to.
This city is 50 miles from where I live.
50 miles on a train costs, one-way, with 25% off, 10 Euros.
This train ride takes two hours to complete.
Last Friday I had to take a train to work, and then back home. The morning train exhausted the book I brought with me, leaving me bored beyond comprehension on the afternoon journey.
As a...

Might be a random topic but this was just kind of going through my head:
Chicken soup is good and all for when you are sick, it warms the body and eases pain and stuffiness in the throat and nose, and it tends to give a very nice flavor. It is a mixture between light saltyness and that indescribably taste that everyone had fallen into the habit of calling chicken; though the name is justified in this case.
My question is, though, how is chicken soup all that great for the soul? When...

Have you ever noticed that when you tell someone about a story or book you're writing that they almost always automatically ask, "So, what's it about?" This is a natural question, of course, but it's the answer to that question that piques my interest.
If what I'm talking about is not of my own creation, I can easily decribe it, but whenever I try to tell what my own book is about, I always have to go back in order to explain something. For example:
My friend today asked me...

As an aspiring novelist and a bit of a perfectionist, I have been working on my novel, Tal'mokor Chronicles, for over three years. I have literally forced my friends to read it over and over again, begged my literature teachers to do the same, and they all give me good feedback. But I want something more, a stronger assurance that I am on the right track.
Here, on this forum, I hope to hear criticism that is unbiased by any relationship to me. Here, I hope to meet others like myself and perfect...