WHAT ARE YOUR OPINIONS ON THIS STORY? WHAT DID YOU LIKE ABOUT IT WHAT DON'T YOU LIKE ABOUT IT. IF YOU WANT TO READ THE WHOLE THING PLEASE POST YOUR EMAIL.

PLEASE TELL ME HOW I CAN IMPROVE ON MY STORY.

You have a very interesting beginning for the story and the potential for it to go quite well. I like the description of what the main character sees, etc.

Areas to work on:
Try to avoid using repeated pronouns as the subject so often. This is difficult when you write a story in first person like you have, but still, it gets annoying to the reader to repeat words. Try rewording the sentence to avoid beginning it with "I" or "she" always.

Your sentences get choppy at times. By that I mean short followed by another 2 or 3 shorts. Use more sentence variety. Maybe one would be a longer sentence where you would use connecting words like "therefore", "however", "as well as" etc. and then the following sentence would be shorter for making a quick point and emphasis.

Make sure your first sentence hooks the reader to want to read the 2nd and so forth throughout the first few paragraphs. Once they're hooked, it's a lot easier usually. When I write [which I do constantly] I usually spend more than half the time of the first chapter solely on the first paragraph.

Last item, your speech is not quite natural. Spell out the conversations as you would say them, and then write them down with a little less perfect grammar if necessary or whatever reflection you wish to use of the speaker's accent or dialect.

Overall, I applaud you for beginning an overall excellent job. I enjoyed reading the story and look forward to continuing to watch its progress. With only a little editting here and there, I see wonderful potential for it. GREAT JOB!

PS Don't look at it as a bad thing for editing. I've written many works now and always I have to go back and edit/change/alter/re-word and sometimes even completely re-do an entire section before it becomes perfect. It's all part of the process. You really are doing a great job!

okay. people's I'm trying to publish a book it is all ready to 330 already and I think it will end at 500 pages but I'm hoping to squeeze it to 400 pages instead.

I been doing this since mid 5th grade and still am doing this right at this moment. I been not doing it so long until some people was urging me to get it publish *though I was thinking that before them but somehow I was like kind of put down sometimes because how long the story line is* and right know I'm trying to see if there is anybody out there that can tell me this question.

another one:

Does Publishing cost anything? *cause I seen some go to 399 or something like that*

Do you know some other place beside New York City to publish it? *Like anywhere from Texas up to Colorado to Wyoming to Michigan? Anywhere near there?*

What do you should NOT do when your trying to publishing a book in a hurry? *though i'm not in a hurry . . . I don't think I am…*

How long does a book get publish in how many days? does it takes months, days, or years? *If it takes years then I'm mad at my self* non of yall people *

thanks! help me! it will help me out great!

If your book reads like your question, a traditional publisher will not be interested, but a lot of scams will be. You NEED to edit your work for spelling, grammar, and punctuation. Being young or English not being you first language is no excuse if you want to publish in the English reading market. If you can't do it yourself, hire someone to help you (and it will cost a lot for editing and may not improve the chances of selling a manuscript if the story itself is not good).

Location of agents and publishers is not what you should be concerned about.. What is important is their business reputation, sales record, and book quality. Do your research. There are a lot of scams aimed at new writers, and you have to know enough about the business of publishing to know what a scam looks like before it bites you.

Traditional publishing does not cost you anything. Real publishers pay the author and make their money selling the books. Vanity (self publishers) and scams make their money off the author and could care less if the books sell. Real publishers place books on shelves in real stores (not just online). Real publishers care about the quality of the writing (vanity and scams do not).

No one in the publishing industry cares about the number of pages in a manuscript. They care about word count. Quite likely, you also need to learn about proper manuscript formatting. There are many good websites and books that cover it. Find one.

Traditional publishing can take 9 to 24 months from the sale of the manuscript to the day the books are available at a store. There is a lot of preparation that goes into the book - editing, marketing, cover design, proofing gallies, advertising, printing, nationwide distribution - all of it takes time. Vanity and scams do not take as long because they have nothing to loose (since they do not care about sales, they do not bother with marketing plans, editing and proofing, or distribution).

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I am currently writing a research paper and I need at LEAST 3 more pages, and I am starting to run out of ideas and subtopics.
I know I can't magically squeeze out three more pages without more work and a bit more research, but do you have any good tips or tricks to help lengthen a paper a bit?
I'm not saying I won't do more research, I am just under a time crunch, like I said I'm not expecting to gain 3 more pages, just a few lines here or there. And I am not going to reformat the font sizes becuase it has pretty strict formatting requirements.

Lengthen contractions into two words. You will only get two, three characters out of this, but if you have a lot of contractions it will add up. This will also help if your paper has a minimum word requirement.

Help with laser printer.?

28.April, 2009

When I print something from online, the whole page is squeezed into about a third of the sheet of paper. This only occurs when it's printed online, not when I print from MS-Word. The printing properties are the same, it's set to "Actual size".
The printer is a HP Color LaserJet CP1518ni.

When you are printing stuff from the internet (web pages, email, etc.) the reason for the small print is that it is related to the size of the monitor and it's viewing setup (the higher the screen resolution, the smaller the print will be when printing it out even though it looks good on the monitor).

One way you can make the print larger when printing internet stuff & emails is by changing the print view size on the screen to a larger size in your web browser (this is separate from your other setting you've already setup). Go to the menu bar at the top (i.e. Internet Explorer), click on "View," then "Text Size" then select a size like "Larger" or "Largest" (something higher than what you're currently set to.)

I think the best method for internet printing is to go to your menu bar at the top of your web browser, click on "File" then "Print Preview". At the top of the window there should be a small window with "Shrink To Fit" in it. Click the arrow for a drop down list and choose something probably above 80% or more (maybe 100 or 125%) and see how it changes the print size of what is to be printed out and choose the one that looks and works best for you.

The only other method is to copy & paste the text into a text editing software like Word and adjust the text size there. If you're using a text program, then you simply adjust the size of the text to a 12 or 14 point, or larger, font size (adjust depending on the font and size you need) and that should do the trick.

Best of Luck.

I am 5 months pregnant and after reading this book I am very disheartened and depressed. She has made out having two children to be such a negative experience, the only good comments are squeezed into the last 2 pages!
Now I know having my second child will be hard and a big adjustment but I was actually looking forward to it and thought it would be fun and rewarding too.
Surely this book is being a little over the top? It can't possibly be that depressing to have 2 kids or noone would do it, let alone go on to have 3!

don't take it to heart too much. kids are a joy! you will see!

Need to put a border around the text on my Sitebuilder page. Tried using "insert table" w/ just one cell but doesn't work well. All sorts of problems w/ SB trying to squeeze text into a cell, which ain't what I want. How to put a border around an article w/ text and images?

Use CSS my man.

Example:

<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<style type="text/css">
<!–
.BoxedText {
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
float: none;
height: auto;
width: 1px;
margin: auto;
padding: 1px;
border: thin solid #000000;
}
–>
</style>
</head>

<body>
sdsds
<table width="167" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<!–DWLayoutTable–>
<tr>
<td width="167" height="98" valign="top" class="unnamed1">sadsd</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

I have a windows vista home basic. I am not sure why, but my text on my pages seem to be squeezed together and sometimes will not fit into size of format on screen, therefore, some text I cannot see because it appears cut off. And some text seems to overlap other text. What could this problem be? Pages on screen also appear squeezed smaller than usual. My screen resolution is normal so what else could it be? Please help it is driving me crazy!

I may not be exactly sure but I think it's got something to do with your actual screen itself if there's buttons on it you can adjust the size of the window.

Just an hour ago i was in answers page, squeezing my brain to type out really long answers and when in hit submit, it says "OOPS!"
i mean WTF?!!!
it happens once in a while, its alright, but this is annoying!
imagine, 10 pages, an hour of typing (which i hate) and it says OOPS!
i almost smashed my monitor!
and believe it or not, it happened again while i posted this question,
i think we all should threaten Yahoo that all of us will not log in for a day or two until they promise us good service, may it be free service, but good service, coz someone pays for it!

I know I get annoyed at this as well.
As you take a while to type a long answer and then it says oops or Yahoo is taking a Coffee Break.
lol I have wanted to do that a couple of times to the computer.

Yeah I might do that.