Advice: You don't know EVERYTHING about your characters

I've seen a lot of people writing stuff, excruciatingly painfully explaining every single twitch that character had in the first few pages of that story. People, we do not need to know the entire biography of someone right when you open the story. Why? Well, first of all, because we do not care. We are not yet attached to that character emotionally, so it's definitely not interesting. There are few authors that can pull this off, and they have their methods.
Best was to describe characters is, first of all, gradually, over the entire length of the story, so the reader gets to know it and gets attached to it, and then, use a lot of dialogue and interaction. You can very well describe your character through dialogue, he can answer inspired questions put by other characters, so you don't need to foolishly explain everything to your readers.
That should be a ground rule. Your readers are not stupid. If you hint them something, they will probably understand what you meant without trying to give them every single bit of information you have stacked up. Also, don't have every single character of your fully developed in your mind in the beginning. Of course, if that happens, it doesn't mean it's wrong, but you will be amazed at how much your character can evolve while you're writing your story. Every twist and turn in the plot, will obviously affect your characters, and through that you will find out how they're shaped and how they react to different impediments. Test yourself, put a character through a few different actions that would obviously endanger it. Write down how he or she would react to that. After doing that, you'll have a much clearer picture on how brave your character is. You can do this for a bunch of other qualities you can think of.
I hope my advice will help you, and hoping to see some feedback here.
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Advice: Don't put too much of yourself into your writing

If there is one thing I learned while writing short stories and starting to write a novel is that putting too much of yourself into something you write doesn't always work and doesn't always appeal to your readers.
Yes, it's fine to distinguish one of your characters with your qualities, flaws and maybe something really exciting that has happened to you and you want to share with the world, but writing too much about yourself into a fiction piece will not work.
Why? Because, let's face it, you as an individual, unless you've been to war or experienced a truly traumatic event, will not have a story as interesting as a "fictional" character you can mold and turn into anything you like.
If you want to tell your life story, wait till you are famous and then publish it as non-fiction. Till then, let your characters be free, don't assimilate them with you.

I think I have a title

One of the best things you can do as an author, especially, an inexperienced one, when writing your first major piece is to find a title before. Of course, it doesn't have to be the one you'll use when you finish it, but something to get you started, to give you the definitive proof that you are headed somewhere.
I am, apparently headed somewhere with my novel, but didn't think of a title yet. This until yesterday. Another sneak preview I'm gonna give you regards two main themes in this book, probably one of the first two locations that I have imagined from the beginning. One that I am completely familiarized with by now, about which I sketched already entire scenes and charts of significance and another one that is just revealing itself to me. You will understand in a second why one of them can be the title of the novel and the other cannot.
"The Dump" will be one of the major "spacial" characters of the book, obviously when you will read it you will understand why. There's still some time till that happens. The second, that I think will be the title of the book is "The Glass Gazebo".
I already have in mind so many ideas about this fabulous place I have discovered that I cannot wait to share them with you.

Writers and technology

Oh well, we've all been there, I suppose, the moment when you realize that your life and writing career would be nothing without your desktop or laptop. The moment when you wonder how the hell could people write 200 thousand word novels on paper.
Truth is that technology has made us lazy. First of all, us as a society, and second of all, us, writers. What do I mean? Well, right now it's so easy to research any subject you want to write about without ever leaving your desk, going out on the field, talking to people. Now it is so easy to edit your novel without using that big tome we call "thesaurus". There are hundreds of options, software for writers, software for editors, software for publishers etc. etc.
On the other hand, this is a good thing. Young, unknown writers can finally see their books published and test the market without having to go through the tedious process of submitting their works to major publishers.
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In more personal reactions, I have been slacking off for the past few days, as my upcoming novel is regarded. I will resume work on that, as soon as I fix my notebook. Oh well, technology...

My problems with Google

I finally resolved all the issues with the website domain. For the past few weeks I wasn't the most content person in the world, especially regarding Google. How? Well, let me explain.
I bought www.alexnick.com from Google, for a reasonable $10 per year. That includes Google Apps, a very nice set of applications that really enhance what you can do with a domain. Next step was to redirect alexnick.blogspot.com to that domain, right? Well, Google doesn't make it specifically clear HOW to do this. So, I called Godaddy.com twice, first a guy talked to me and tried to tell me that there is nothing wrong, that I just have to wait for a while so my domain gets activated and the DNS settings get settled (whatever that means).
After waiting for a couple of days a call again, this time I talked to a chick named Stephanie that seemed a little more knowledgeable that that guy, but ultimately wasn't.
In the end, I figured it out myself using Google Groups.
This leads to the conclusion of this post: "If you want something done well, do not rely on phone tech support.
Anyway, from now on just type www.alexnick.com and there I am.