Navigating your way around storywrite can be a bit challenging if you're unsure of what you're looking for and help - depends on what kind of help you're looking for. If you looking for regular site navigation, the site's help link would be a great place to start. If you're looking for user support, such as help on writing - as that's truly what we're all doing here - there are a couple crucial places to look.

First are support tips, such as columns, such as this one. Columns take general aspects of writing and dissect them to make concepts more discernable to a wider audience. If you're having trouble understanding a specific concept of writing, browse through the columns to see if someone has written something along the lines of what you're looking for. Columns come in all shapes and sizes and cover a wide range of topics. There's bound to be something you're looking for and a new perspective on something you're not.

Finding specific help on writing takes a little more patience. The usual advisor would say to read and comment on others and expect the receiver to return the favor and read and comment on your own story. Most of the time this works, but most of the time the comment that you receive is along the lines of "great story" or "cool" - as if this is a sufficient response to a story. As we're all looking for remarks with more depth the easiest and most efficient way to receive an in depth response is to ask for it. It's really as simple as that. Asking for help gives you a step above those who don't. The worse thing that can happen is you don't get any help - and you're no worse off than you were before asking. The best thing obviously is that you will receive the help that you were asking for or at least reason a decent response that will point you in the right direction.

Asking for help is not as hard as it may seem. I would not suggest writing to another writer who does not share your genre interest to ask for advice. This doesn't give you a fair chance for a decent response - and perhaps you'll get something along the nauseating response of "neat - keep writing". I do advise you to ask the help or writers that you respect or admire. Even if you do not share the same genre interest, you can ask specific questions of the writer that you admire. If you wish to create realistic metaphors or work on creating imagery, limit your questions to this scope - so that the person you're asking does not feel overburdened with helping you rework your entire piece.

Don't be discouraged if you receive a response from an author who is either too busy - or not interested in offering their help. I've yet to run across this person (or perhaps these people) but I'm sure they're out there. Just move along and do your best. You've left a comment on their story perhaps someone else is out there that would be more interested in helping - and try again.

In this beginning of this article, I said that most would recommend you reading and commenting and that I was offering something different. However, as you can see, it's the same approach with a different angle. Leave thorough and helpful comments and some will reciprocate. Send kind messages asking for help, and you'll probably receive it.