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- February 17th, 2011, 11:38 am
- Forum: Nominate Your Query or First Page for a Critique on the Blog
- Topic: Nominate Your First Page for a Critique on the Blog
- Replies: 720
- Views: 458192
Re: Nominate Your First Page for a Critique on the Blog
Title:A Drum Is Empty Genre:Fantasy (Urban-prehistoric) (251 words) I swear on my life to be true to the one who has chosen me. May the avenging spirits rise up from the Underworld to devour me if I betray his trust. May the blood freeze in my heart if I disobey him. Beyond the low rise lay a place ...
- February 15th, 2010, 10:49 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Share your opening sentence!
- Replies: 236
- Views: 87983
Re: Share your opening sentence!
I know what a leitmotif is. Death isn't mine, though this first sentence shares a few notes. I just rewrote it after challenging myself to do so. Who knows how it will read tomorrow.
Beyond the low rise lay a place of the dead where the Bull band's winter camp should have been.
- January 25th, 2010, 11:43 pm
- Forum: Ask Nathan
- Topic: Old Ask Nathan Thread
- Replies: 793
- Views: 415032
Re: Ask Nathan
I have a question that should be simple to answer, and expect the "it varies" response, yet I feel I need to ask. As a visually impaired writer, I write in Verdana14 point font. Having only 3/4 of one eye, I cannot see Courier font on the screen hardly at all. I do expect to have to chang...
- January 25th, 2010, 11:32 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: All right vs. Alright
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6054
Re: All right vs. Alright
I made a conscious decision to keep it two words. I shall not budge. And I don't give an aerial sex act what S. King does.
- January 25th, 2010, 11:29 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: 1st post on here: 2010 ABNAs
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2300
Re: 1st post on here: 2010 ABNAs
I entered. Never entered any contests before, but I have a novel at the right stage so -- pow. I figure the worst that can happen is that I lose a few months of agent-hunting.
Anxiety is normal. I even felt a twinge.
Anxiety is normal. I even felt a twinge.
- January 18th, 2010, 10:05 pm
- Forum: Procrastination
- Topic: I need a contraption for my computer
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2265
Re: I need a contraption for my computer
Get an offline thesaurus and disconnect the modem.
- January 18th, 2010, 10:02 pm
- Forum: Queries
- Topic: Query--Sendek--3rd revision page 2
- Replies: 25
- Views: 15709
Re: Query--Sendek
Hmm, I thought I was looking at the revised version. But things get messed up because I have to zoom the font up big and then things scroll too far...you have no idea, you who can read 8-pixel high letters. Oh well.
- January 18th, 2010, 9:55 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: chapter question.
- Replies: 18
- Views: 6696
Re: chapter question.
Yeek. I do separate scenes for POV changes that come that fast, because the reason they come fast is that the action all belongs in the same chapter. My chapters are variable, from probably 14-15 pages down to less than half that. Whatever they have to be.
- January 17th, 2010, 10:34 pm
- Forum: Queries
- Topic: Fiction Query-2nd Try (Less fluff more stuff)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5014
Re: Fiction Query-2nd Try (Less fluff more stuff)
Fluff is resilient stuff. Seems like there is always some left. Speaking as one who has trimmed thousands of words of it from my own novel, LOL. Me whacks a few words: Near an old farming town there is a small but deep body of water called Blackwater Pond. No one has ever been able to reach its bot...
- January 17th, 2010, 10:12 pm
- Forum: Queries
- Topic: Query--Sendek--3rd revision page 2
- Replies: 25
- Views: 15709
Re: Query--Sendek
This is no way complete, I merely hope to touch on some points that strike me as a bit off or too wordy. A couple of things that bug me: Mage is a singular noun, and you seem to be using it as a colloective plural. *wince* "Dragnot" sounds way too much like "Dragnet", or some kin...
- January 16th, 2010, 9:37 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Moving from third omniscent to third limited?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4933
Re: Moving from third omniscent to third limited?
Whatever you do, don't fool around with different fonts. When you submit a manuscript, you will be expected to use one consistent font (which one depends on the agent's or publisher's criteria). Of course you can change the font at any time; but while it might look great to you to use different font...
- December 28th, 2009, 7:06 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Something I have discovered, how about you...
- Replies: 14
- Views: 7082
Re: Something I have discovered, how about you...
I have a sort of three-part process. Write tersely. Add fluff. Trim fluff severely.
- December 15th, 2009, 9:44 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: When Google steals your word...
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4709
Re: When Google steals your word...
Any cool-sounding (and relatively common) word either has already been used or will be in the next five minutes. That's life.
- December 14th, 2009, 10:09 pm
- Forum: Procrastination
- Topic: Surprised Kitty
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7816
Re: Surprised Kitty
This is better :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLDbGqJ2KYk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLDbGqJ2KYk
- December 14th, 2009, 10:03 pm
- Forum: Procrastination
- Topic: Favorite quote
- Replies: 55
- Views: 32888
Re: Favorite quote
"Lazy mental habits have great inertia"
- Eric S. Raymond
- Eric S. Raymond