This book is a collection of resources and random tips that will help you become a better writer and create stories worth reading. Since I've started the writing journey, and particularly started editing freelancers' works, I've discovered there are some basics, resources, and tips from professionals that will help all those striving to improve themselves, some of which I want to share with you in this book. Some of the content will be extracts from other professionals with advice and tips, and some of it will be from my own experience. Here's to us, the writers

A 30 day writing challenge surrounding femininity in all its glory.

note - this took me five months Other #410 || 4-12-13 Short Story #240 || 4-12-13

Update: This story has been discontinued. - I am terribly sorry. Your mother lied to you. She told you that you were unique, and that as a teenager you have a whole bunch of options you can choose from to determine who you want to be. She must have been high. Look, I'm going to tell you this honestly. Somewhere out there in this floating sphere of green and blue, there's a person who acts just like you. It's the combinations of different personalities - which eventually lead up to an actual human being - that makes us all unique. But it can't hurt to find out where your personality stems from, right? Wanna know who you are? I'll help you out. There are 36 students in my classroom. Which one are you?

"Anna dislikes being stuck three-quarters of the way down a chimney. She really does. Not to mention, she's still going round North America, and there's, like, three continents still to get through in about as many hours."

A fallen princess, alchemists, immortals, mafiosi, bootleggers, and thieves; they should have absolutely nothing in common. But this is 1921, and in the roaring 20s anything can happen. The story starts with 17 year old Cadence Beauregard, the former princess and alchemist, next in line to Kygore's throne, and her plan to regain power. Or does it start with Ferrari Provenzano, the young mafioso next in line to become the Provenzano family's boss. Holly Everstone and her band of bootleggers seem like a good place to start. Or perhaps over one hundred years earlier, when one young freed slave seizes immortality, and destroys a nation. We could even go back to the beginning; where one man, and one woman changed the world. A jumbled up tale of love, hate, betrayal, humor, and strength-all tangled and connected under a faraway sky. Also, don’t forget to vote on your favorite characters! http://poll.pollcode.com/fb6fl

[This book has officially been published and only a sample remains. See inside for details.] Nora Montgomery's primary goal was to remain seemingly unnoticed until graduation, and that meant staying away from Ryder Collins. But when both she and Ryder are selected to participate in the local police department's handcuff demonstration, they find themselves inescapably chained together. The tension between them is thick; filled with unresolved issues from their past friendship. But things get a whole lot worse when the officer loses the key and the pair are forced to accommodate each other until a replacement is available. Being handcuffed to the opposite gender was sure to introduce some extremely uncomfortable situations. Things are about to get awkward, right? 2013 Watty Awards Winner Most Popular, Mystery//Thriller

Michael was created by the team of the skilled Dr. Lawrence to be the first robot to simulate human emotions with perfection. Dr. Charlotte DeLanne is part of this team. She considers her life to be finally perfect: a great job, a loving fiancee and the biggest launch of her career with the Michael Project. However, she quickly finds herself bonded to Michael as her life starts to fall apart.

"Remind me again why I thought spending six weeks with a bunch of hyperactive, sweaty and supposedly 'musically gifted' kids was a good idea?" Bailey Cunningham has gone and taken the plunge - she's not only signed up for the job of a camp counselor at Triple Lakes Camp for Musically Gifted Children, but she's roped her best friend, Savannah, into it too. However, the pair really get more than they bargained for when they discover they'll be sharing their summer with not only the kids, but the guy who looks as if he's stepped out of an Abercrombie and Fitch catalog, the quirky brother, and the sugar-coated flautist who's way too sweet for her own good. In the midst of the madness, only one thing's for sure: Bailey knows absolutely nothing about music.

When Emily Johnstone comes to help her cousin John in Scotland she expects to be typing his letters and making his phone calls. She doesn't expect a body on the kitchen floor and a house flooded with policeman. She doesn't expect suspicion and accusation of the people she grew up with but that's what she gets. When the police want her help with the investigation Emily thinks things can't get any stranger- she couldn't be more wrong.