Whether you're a Writer looking to check your work or a Beta Reader who wants to point out a few things to your favorite writer, feel free to borrow, spindle, and mutilate this list of questions to your heart's desire.

(D. Gray-Man)Handsome, smart, and powerful, General Cross of the Black Order is one of the few men capable of standing against the terror of humanity known as the Millennium Earl. He�s also a playboy extraordinaire with a nasty habit of not paying his debts. Cross is about discover, that karma can be a really cunning bastard. (OC x CM x KL) COMPLETE

COMPLETE - During his two and a half year training mission with Master Jiraiya the toad sage, Naruto learns a bittersweet lesson in love. (N x OC)

"...doing a big long multi-chaptered story intimidates the heck out of me. I'd love to do a PWP one-shot, but I'm afraid of messing it up. Is there an easy way to do it?"

All successful (read: popular) stories have patterns. Sometimes it’s simple, sometimes it’s complex but all of the stories read or told often enough to remain in the popular mind of any culture have a pattern, a PLOT.

Edgar Allen Poe, celebrated as one of the finest short fiction writers of all time, was also a literary critic. These are bits of his wisdom on writing short stories gleaned from one of his critiques -- and what that means in Today's fiction.

If you can imagine it - you can write it. The easiest way is by doing it in LAYERS.

Once you know what your characters and doing and saying, how do you get all that down on Paper? (NOT a punctuation article.)

Okay, so you got this GREAT Idea for a story! This Great Idea...that births chapter after chapter... This Great Idea... that you can't seem to finish. So what do you do now?