What go to songs or albums do you have?
What go to songs or albums do you have?
novel word count: 30,100
okay is this really happening
another day, another 1000 words
if i keep up this pace i can be finished in about a month and a half
come on
Did you ever give up a traditional career for one in art? Would love to know. Here is a stubborn young woman who told her mother she would study film, and not law.
Given you researched a singular event in great depth, and then wrote personal tales of suffering surrounding that event, did you find it difficult to let it go?
Similarly, does every hurricane that forms now affect you differently than they once did?
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Sometimes I get the opportunity to research and sometimes I don't, like today (I'm currently unwell). I hope I'm asking a fair question here; beyond that, that it's not something I should have seen in a bio if I'd looked.
Your book collection of short stories appears to be about characters living through hard times and dealing with hard decisions made or needful. It feels like something an author would write in part to work through their own demons or to make sense of a nonsensical world. Is this the case for you? If not, what drives you and your writing? What do you wish the reader to feel they have learned when they finish the reading the last page of your story?
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Today's the day. SHADOW OF THE ELDERS is available wide both in ebook and paperback! If you've been waiting until it left Amazon to check it out, now's the time!
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Today's the day. SHADOW OF THE ELDERS is available wide both in ebook and paperback! If you've been waiting until it left Amazon to check it out, now's the time!
https://books2read.com/shadowoftheelders
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I keep dreaming that the future is de-urbanized, and I'm working on a novella that is set in such a world, sort of a utopia. No mega cities, no mega urban centers. Life retreats to settlements that by today's standards are considered rural. But I want it to be 'hard scifi', meaning it is possible to achieve in the near future. Question then, is this a pipe dream? What would happen if this became the future? Would we be happier? Would it reverse climate change?
I keep dreaming that the future is de-urbanized, and I'm working on a novella that is set in such a world, sort of a utopia. No mega cities, no mega urban centers. Life retreats to settlements that by today's standards are considered rural. But I want it to be 'hard scifi', meaning it is possible to achieve in the near future. Question then, is this a pipe dream? What would happen if this became the future? Would we be happier? Would it reverse climate change?
Hey authors, I want to let you know, your books probably have a typo or two, and you know what?
That's okay!
The best editor in the world isn't going to catch them all. Sometimes they slip by for years before anyone notices. You wrote a LOT of words to make that book. So don't let one person who can't get through a single social media post without a grammar issue make you feel bad for mixing up your and you're once out of the 50 times you used them correctly. Yore amazing! 😊
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There have been way too many to say with a straight face that one of them was the greatest impact. That's how that works.
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There have been way too many to say with a straight face that one of them was the greatest impact. That's how that works.
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Depends on the story. The story tells me what kind of ending it needs.
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Hey authors, I want to let you know, your books probably have a typo or two, and you know what?
That's okay!
The best editor in the world isn't going to catch them all. Sometimes they slip by for years before anyone notices. You wrote a LOT of words to make that book. So don't let one person who can't get through a single social media post without a grammar issue make you feel bad for mixing up your and you're once out of the 50 times you used them correctly. Yore amazing! 😊
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You mean like balance or proprioception? :)
(There are like 30 senses, depending on which biologist you ask.)
Smart-assery aside, I use metaphors and similes. It's "like" this or that. I save the really trippy stuff for special occasions, like meeting a god (which happened in my novella).
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Of course. There's no way it couldn't, but I try to be conscious of it. I will say, writing a future utopia that's anarcho-syndicalist has forced me to realize my intuitive version of that is very middle-class/nuclear family, so my second draft is going to address that transform my protagonist's home life into much more of a collectivist space.
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I have this desire, over and over again, to describe *stuff* that defy sensory definition, that's beyond comprehensible. It often doesn't work, but I'm going to keep trying to crack it.
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No, and I would only do one if it was very obviously a farce.
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i broke 20,000 words on my novel today
about two weeks ago it was on 13,000
i feel excited. am i actually going to finish this?
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