In simplest terms, pre-writing is what you do before writing. Go ahead and groan; I know you want to. Specifically, it is the brainstorming and planning you do to create your story. And the best way to illustrate this is to take you through the creation of a story step by step. Write along with these tutorials; just choose your own ideas. It's called practice and you are under no obligation to show it to anyone or submit it anywhere. But the more seriously you treat your writing, the better it will get.

The inspiration for this tutorial:

Name: Andreas W.
Homepage URL: http://andreas.n3.net
Comments: You are a little bit of a language-fascists.

Naturally has a good language part of a good story, but if one for example is from some non-English country, it gets a little tougher to be a very correct writer.

Your criticism is a little brutal, considering that you've had plenty of high-level education in English.

You shouldn't really expect others to keep the same quality, and this is something you appear to have troubles with.

This guide is starting with definitions (just to make sure we're talking about the same things) and punctuation because while most of us use the same symbols, we don't always use them the same way.

DEFINITIONS

1. noun - the name of a person, place, thing, or idea. A common noun refers to any person, place, thing, idea, etc. while a proper noun refers to a specific person, place, thing, idea, etc.


2. pronoun - a word that takes the place of a noun.