The triumphant return of someone that time has forgotten for a long while. Let's etch our names in the stars, eh?

Here's some pointers for those of you who want some good writing tips and such:

1. Think about your characters. How do you want to portray them? How do they react to the situations? Literally put yourself into the character's mind and operate from there.

2. Your setting. Sure, people like certain settings, but then you have those who blow people out of the water with a setting that may have been disliked, but their story worked perfectly in it. Make sure you create a world that can be familiar, but also new, in a sense.

3. Your antagonist! THIS is a major point. If you do not have a definite BIG BAD, then you do have a problem. Some stories don't reveal the BIG BAD until much further into the story, while some reveal it near the beginning. Think of what he/she/it does, why it does it, and how that affects those it does those things to.

4. Your situations. A rolling boulder comes hurtling towards your character. MOST stories like that would have a rope vine. Every situation, if you really want to make them interesting, must have an out-of-the-box way of solving the problem. Instead of a rope vine, how about a ledge just underneath so the boulder goes flying over? Or an alcove to the side? "What should the solution be" is the question for situations.

5. Chapter set up: How many situations, how much exposition. This is bare-bones essential to the start of a story. How much will you reveal at the start? How much will be kept hidden until the appropriate time? It's paramount for suspense.

That's my advice. Use it well.

Additionally, I do not do writing commissions. Nor do I just write willy-nilly for people. If it's a good idea, maybe I'll knock out a really short thing for it, but the only story that I write that has user-submitted input allowed is Deadwood's Detective Agency.