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A: How to make a villain fall in love? See your villain as a fully fleshed person who, while harsh and cruel for reasons of his own and having a dark past, is human. Dark doesn’t mean solitary. I was talking to a cousin of mine about my main character and secondary protagonist and she wanted to know if they would get together. Two assass... (more) |
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What weight should be given to writers groups critiques? I joined a writers group that meets every three weeks. I submitted the first eighteen pages of my work and also sent the same file to a publisher at AuthorHouse. The writers group had varied opinions including I need more identifiers because the characters sound the same. I don’t think that they do.... (more) |
— | over 5 years ago |
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A: How do I write gray vs grey stories? My current work is one where there are no heroes, no villains - just people doing things. I have characters remark that good versus evil is a naive concept. They go on to explain that so called villains are quite capable of doing good things and that the supposed good guys are often required to do so... (more) |
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A: How important are good looking people in a novel/story? There are more important things than physical perfection. It would depend on the genre. As has been stated, romances have handsome love interests. Also, we have been taught that beauty and virtue are somehow paired. The strong and noble hero must be handsome and the villain is ill-favoured. In Magic... (more) |
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Is it advisable to begin marketing a book before it is published? I watched a presentation called Your First 10k Readers. It explains a marketing course that will build an audience for your book prior to release - even prior to completion. It sounds sensible and the idea of offering a small teaser or a such for free to build a mailing list of likely buyers makes se... (more) |
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A: How can I make names more distinctive without making them longer? You wish to maintain the brevity of the names, so I would suggest inserting silent consonants at the end of some, changing Ara to Aragh or Arah to differentiate it visually from the other names. You could consider adding a z in the first syllable. Ara could become Azragh, Arzah or Arzagh. Minor cha... (more) |
— | over 5 years ago |
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How is simplicity better than precision and clarity in prose? Many recommend the Hemingway app, which pushes simplicity and the lowest possible reading level. Where I live, an illiterate person is defined as any person who reads below a grade nine level. The Hemingway app would have us writing for the semi-literate. It encourages such by designating a grade 6 r... (more) |
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A: The difference between dialogue marks As JonStonecash has said, the other choices would be jarring. I know that I expect quotation marks to indicate spoken dialogue. While all are sound, the traditional quotation marks have the weight and benefit of tradition, rendering them invisible. It is your book, but if you want readers to enjoy ... (more) |
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A: If you're not a professional, what motivates you to keep writing? We all have our own reasons, unique to each. The magic of the written word is that it remains. The desire to write something worthy of lasting, whether it is read or not seems to be mine. I need to tell a story. The passion for the well-crafted phrase, the pursuit of that beautiful passage, but most... (more) |
— | over 5 years ago |
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What benefits might there be to membership in a Writer's Guild? I live in the publishing hinterlands. I was reading some query letters that worked and one thing they had in common was mention of attendance at a conference. What benefits could a membership give one that would be worth the price of admission? Do they also have agents and editors checking their me... (more) |
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A: How to create a consistent feel for character names in a fantasy setting? Bear in mind that languages do not have all names sounding the same. If you take my paternal grandfather's name Hyhory and his sons, Isydore, Anton and Kassian you will note considerable variation and that is in one family. When I am working on names in fantasy, I choose a sound I like and use that ... (more) |
— | over 5 years ago |
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Is a tag line useful on a cover? I am playing around with cover art ideas and have some that are quite interesting. I have added a brief tag line, not quite a subtitle, to the cover to indicate the genre. Frankly, the artistic photo of the guns that I am thinking of using should clue people in to the fact this is not a kid’s book an... (more) |
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Does detail obscure or enhance action? I have two versions of a pivotal scene in my novel (both already written). My SP is a rather impulsive young woman who is learning to be a bit less of a hothead. She saves the MC by literally taking a bullet for him. In version A, she intuits the situation and, suppressing all fear, reacts almost i... (more) |
— | over 5 years ago |
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Are submission services worth pursuing? I have found a company called Writer’s Relief. Their service is to write compelling submission and query letters to genre appropriate agents and publishers. They ask for a synopsis, fifteen pages of manuscript and, assuming it is a work they can get behind, they find and query twenty five agents. Th... (more) |
— | over 5 years ago |
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How to keep a dark protagonist who wants to keep his humanity dark? My MC is in a dark line of work. He is an assassin. He is also someone with lines he does not cross. He has been duped or coerced to do things he would not, but still holds to some standards. I want my gentleman assassin to be dark, conflicted and dangerous without being mad dog killer, psycho or (w... (more) |
— | over 5 years ago |
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A: Sending manuscript to multiple publishers From what I have read elsewhere, unless they specifically mention that they accept multiple submissions, it is very bad form indeed. The publisher has a process that takes time. If he is impressed by the mss and is working to get it published, having rivals doing the same unbeknownst to him will sou... (more) |
— | over 5 years ago |
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