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- October 28th, 2010, 11:39 pm
- Forum: Ask Nathan
- Topic: Graphic novel query without (many) illustrations
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1470
Re: Graphic novel query without (many) illustrations
My concern was the impropriety of querying for something that would still require a boatload more work. But as you raised no concern about it, I'll assume it's not improper.
- October 26th, 2010, 5:15 pm
- Forum: Ask Nathan
- Topic: Graphic novel query without (many) illustrations
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1470
Graphic novel query without (many) illustrations
Hi. I have a graphic novel for the middle grade market which is a collaboration: I write, and my partner illustrates. Well, my partner has moved on to other interests (getting married, having kids, buying life insurance, drinking to excess, dreaming of yesteryear when he might have been a rich and f...
- October 7th, 2010, 6:49 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: What Do Boys Want? thread ode to Mira,master question asker
- Replies: 20
- Views: 6745
Re: What Do Boys Want? thread ode to Mira,master question asker
I'm a boy. I think Mira's great, and smarter than me, so I'll honor her and give this a shot, and I'll speak for all boys everywhere, because they're not here to stop me. We want everything in life to come in a bullet list. We want to be in Griffindor. We want to save you. We don't know why. Somethi...
- October 1st, 2010, 4:42 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Stuck at the 1/3rd way mark
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5576
Re: Stuck at the 1/3rd way mark
I agree with the techniques outlined above as potentially very helpful. At the same time I think practical techniques are treating the symptom, but they may not help you get relief at the source. Maybe you spend a lot of time thinking through, mapping, and refining the motivations of each of your ch...
- October 1st, 2010, 1:37 pm
- Forum: Nominate Your Query or First Page for a Critique on the Blog
- Topic: Page Critique Friday 10/1/10
- Replies: 32
- Views: 38873
Re: Page Critique Friday 10/1/10
This is an appealing notion, to be able to watch events after your death and see how things worked out. Your writing has a soft touch that will bring a nice immediacy to the work. On the critical side, my one point is that there is an excess... of punctuation, interjections, words in general, explan...
- October 1st, 2010, 1:13 pm
- Forum: Procrastination
- Topic: Forum game: the question game
- Replies: 21
- Views: 8713
Re: Forum game: the question game
Maybe it isn't too early in the morning. Maybe it is very late at night.