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- February 12th, 2012, 9:41 pm
- Forum: Social Media and Book Promotion
- Topic: Do you have a new blog post?
- Replies: 2655
- Views: 817208
- February 12th, 2012, 9:39 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: What is your writing weakness? (Let's call this therapy)
- Replies: 53
- Views: 25705
Re: What is your writing weakness? (Let's call this therapy)
I have a lot of trouble writing male dialogue. My current protagonist is rather intelligent, so he's not the strong and silent type (mostly). I have trouble making sure his dialogue isn't too feminine so I'm trying to focus on concrete things rather than the emotions surrounding them. It doesn't alw...
- December 18th, 2011, 11:44 pm
- Forum: Nominate Your Query or First Page for a Critique on the Blog
- Topic: Nominate Your Query for a Critique on the Blog
- Replies: 213
- Views: 183293
Re: Nominate Your Query for a Critique on the Blog
Dear Nathan Bransford: There is one rule to surviving under the totalitarian regime of the Saviors: keep your damn head down. Darian is a sixteen-year-old street urchin struggling to survive in the impoverished city of Canberra. When an Incendaris magicker, Valora, offers to help him explore his wea...
- December 18th, 2011, 11:42 pm
- 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: 451466
Re: Nominate Your First Page for a Critique on the Blog
Title: Coldfire Genre: YA The platform stank of exhaust and urine. In the dark corners of the station, shifty, shaky people exchanged cash, packets of pills and suspicious metal cases. A teenage boy, the smallest of the lot, sat on the edge of a frozen bench, rubbing his numb hands together. He woul...
- August 28th, 2010, 6:51 am
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: what is your aim of writing??
- Replies: 21
- Views: 7476
Re: what is your aim of writing??
I write for fun. As a 'gifted' kid I was put into a lot of extracurricular programs in primary school. One of them was a creative writing class. Most of it was complete codswallop (I love that word) but after that I wrote more. Started writing fanfiction in high school because I could and then progr...
- August 28th, 2010, 2:10 am
- Forum: Books
- Topic: Multimedia or Straight Text?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 6937
Re: Multimedia or Straight Text?
I will always prefer straight text. If there must be something else, motionless illustrations are as far as I will go. Anything more than that detracts from the story and even the illustrations shouldn't be overdone. Count me as straight text, though.
- August 27th, 2010, 9:48 pm
- Forum: Finding An Agent
- Topic: Do any of you other unpublished authors have websites?
- Replies: 75
- Views: 37678
Re: Do any of you other unpublished authors have websites?
So I am officially torn. My own site is being worked on, but won't be up for a month or two. I really hate Blogger.com's template options, and how their blog text box is so narrow and forces the reader to scroll early and often. Yesterday I checked out wordpress, and while they have more options, t...
- August 27th, 2010, 9:38 pm
- Forum: Books
- Topic: Who first inspired you to read?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6353
Re: Who first inspired you to read?
Easy. J.K. Rowling. Before Harry Potter, I did read but only because I had nothing better to do. Now reading is the better thing. Kudos should also go to my mother, who is a voracious reader, even more than I am
- August 27th, 2010, 8:55 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Teenage Writers?
- Replies: 47
- Views: 23793
Re: Teenage Writers?
Teenage writer here. Hi! I'd say my current year level would equate to Junior year. I manage to find time to write because I take a notebook (as in a paper one, not a laptop thing) to school. Lunchtime is my big writing session, though the time I get varies depending on which friends are hanging aro...
- August 27th, 2010, 8:18 pm
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: The Introduction Thread
- Replies: 646
- Views: 403215
Re: The Introduction Thread
G'day to you too, Lillian. Nice to see a fellow Aussie around. Hello everyone else. I hope I don't make an idiot out of myself. I use my persona (alter ego?), Ann Elise Monte, when in the writing community. I'm seventeen, living in the Australian state, Victoria, about an hour or so out of Melbourne...