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Answer A: How do I avoid tech/social errors in near-future fiction?
Consider general problems/trends/concepts instead of specific realizations/models, then think up techs that resolve/accentuate the general ideas you started with. Techs here don't have to be electronic. Anything that has a clear method/blueprint is a tech to me. So, a government, a math theorem, a t...
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about 11 years ago
Question How well would this beginning sell the book to readers? Not necessarily for money
Disclaimer: English isn't my native language. A while back, I posted this and this. I got... well, reviews. While not outright helpful (ie. indirect, which is the whole point of critiques, I guess) they helped me shape the following extremely revised beginning. > Cuba: 1972 A.D. > > I'm dead. > >...
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over 12 years ago
Answer A: The ethics of multiple contest submissions
You can try it in a different way... All I've read about big-company publishing says that you shouldn't send your manuscript to different publishing-houses at the same time but rather send it to the biggest (in your opinion) and see what they say about it. You'll have to wait a lot but you won't hav...
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over 12 years ago
Answer A: How does the 10,000 hour rule apply to writing?
I'll say it for what it's worth... The best way 10,000 hours of work translate into 'writing-work' is by getting at least 10,000 strangers that only know your work (ie. not you personally) to like one of your original works... With the rest not trailing far behind! Alternatively: You can try to get...
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over 12 years ago
Question How can I search for words by meaning/definition?
Where can I search for words using descriptive sentences? For example, now I'm looking for a word meaning "to purify (by hand) a quantity of grain and take away anything that isn't good grain." How could I get words like that? I know it in my first-language, but I don't have a classic version of it ...
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over 12 years ago
Question Quality examples of 'in medias res' starting sequences in SF literature
You can find my initial trials here, and, based on feedback, version two here. I was trying to create a sort of 'flashforward' opening (please don't cite Sawyer) for a novel. That is: of the 45 chapters being edited for the novel, the paragraphs linked to are the zero chapter. They'll be available a...
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almost 13 years ago
Question Do these starting paragraphs make you want to keep reading?
OK, first, I'm not a native. So, what you do by instinct and a bit of research, I do by extensive research, including accents and dialog style. > I’m dead. ‘But you have a chance,’ I was told, ‘Then why not take a leap of fate?’ > > Fate? Hhh… One wonders how I am dead. But… I’m stuck in a future t...
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about 13 years ago
Question Does this beginning hook the reader?
Guide lines Q no. 4: This is supposed to be the opening part, but certainly not the whole of the first chapter or page for that matter... I'm not exactly sure anyone would take 30 seconds to read that, and I'm told that's what it takes for a reader to decide on a writer they've never seen or heard of...
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about 13 years ago