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Don’t Stereotype Your Characters

When you are writing a story, you want to create unique characters for it, not cookie cutter stereotyped characters.

Don’t create a dark shadowy figure that lurks in the shadows of an alley. Create a real character that watches your hero from the gloomy depths of the alleyway.

Rather than a busty blond or nondescript [...]

Romantic Cancun Vacation

Every once in a while I get one of those days where I know that things are going to be lousy even before the day starts. Those days that are preceded by this sensation that by the end of the day you are going to end up wanting nothing more than to scream and throw [...]

How to Submit a Story

Submitting a story to Phantascene is easy.

Once you have joined the site, go to your member account page and select Add New Story.

Enter the title for your story.

If you have collaborated with someone else, and you are both members of Phantascene, then you can credit them as a co-author of the story.

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Creating Endearing Characters

There are, in the most basic of terms, only two kinds of fictional characters

1) memorable characters that the reader will think about long after they have put the book down and want to read more stories about

and

2) Easily forgotten characters that the reader simply can not bring themselves to care about.

None [...]

Gold

Commodity broker United States Gold Bureau wants to let investors that are looking to invest in precious metals know that new gold exchange-traded funds that will soon be hitting the Thailand stock market.

The recently launched Securities Physical Platinum Shares (PPLT) and Physical Palladium Shares (PALL) are exchange-traded funds that allow investors to invest in [...]