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- September 8th, 2010, 1:31 am
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Revising with an e-reader
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1441
Re: Revising with an e-reader
I do this too and I give copies of my ms to my beta readers formated for their e-readers. That way it feels like a normal book to them, so they won't get distracted by the manuscript looking like, well, a manuscript. I am using Calibre ( http://calibre-ebook.com/ ) for managing e-books, it's free an...
- March 11th, 2010, 3:10 am
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Does your MS go up or down in size?
- Replies: 36
- Views: 16903
Re: Does your MS go up or down in size?
My first draft ended up at 95k, then expanded to 110k in the first revision and shrunk back to 100k during the second. Which is caused by my habit to try getting the story arc right in the first draft, and not care much about show/tell issues. In the second draft, replacing telling by showing was wh...
- January 28th, 2010, 12:46 pm
- Forum: Self-Publishing
- Topic: Do you have a rejection contingency plan?
- Replies: 38
- Views: 20169
Re: Do you have a rejection contingency plan?
casnow - As one of the posters with an e-publishing "backup-plan" (in case you even want to call it a backup plan in my case), I can assure you that I absolutely plan on continue writing. I love it way too much to ever give up on it. I also totally can see your point when you say with e-pu...
- January 26th, 2010, 1:56 am
- Forum: Self-Publishing
- Topic: Do you have a rejection contingency plan?
- Replies: 38
- Views: 20169
Re: Do you have a rejection contingency plan?
I will keep revising and getting feedback on my novel until the point I am convinced that any further alterations will disimprove it. Then I will send out queries and collect a few nice form rejections, just for the heck of it. The end of the story will be trying with an e-publisher. Good thing with...
- January 16th, 2010, 9:31 am
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: how many projects do you work on at a time?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5970
Re: how many projects do you work on at a time?
One and one only. If I get "the best idea ever" while I am on a project (which happens), I write a note and put it in a drawer for later.
- January 14th, 2010, 10:09 am
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Advice From Amateurs?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 7926
Re: Advice From Amateurs?
While I would say that advice coming from published authors is almost always trustworthy, it doesn't mean that the reverse statement is automatically true. Unpublished authors aren't automatically bad and clueless (although of course many of them are). A few of them might be a lot better than many p...
- January 11th, 2010, 11:23 am
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Editing - Hardcopy or computer?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 9986
Re: Editing - Hardcopy or computer?
My handwriting is the best secret code known to mankind. Nobody is able to decipher it. Not even me. So, I am very happy with my keyboard. In addition to that, I type a lot faster than I could ever hope to achieve by hand. Which adds up to be a huge time saver if you have to edit 100,000+ words. And...
- January 9th, 2010, 8:15 am
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Is your self-confidence bipolar?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4148
Re: Is your self-confidence bipolar?
My worst moments I usually have when I am flipping pages in one of those books on how to write. Then I read some paragraphs about how good writing looks like, and get frustrated, since my own sucks so much in comparison. Then I try to remind myself that the bits of text quoted there are usually shin...
- January 9th, 2010, 7:57 am
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: How do you know your writing is good enough?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 16143
Re: How do you know your writing is good enough?
Isn't that sort of 20th century thinking? There's a lot of alternatives now and you don't have to go through corporate gatekeepers if you don't want. In my little internet subculture, quite a few people say they don't read paper books anymore and that they get their literature fix exclusively from ...
- January 7th, 2010, 1:24 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: How do you know your writing is good enough?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 16143
Re: How do you know your writing is good enough?
How do you know your writing is good enough? The moment a publisher offers you to buy your book. Sadly enough, I don't think there is any other answer to that question. You can give your work to people to read, even outsides your family, and they might give you favorable comments, but that doesn't m...
- December 14th, 2009, 10:14 am
- Forum: Ask Nathan
- Topic: Old Ask Nathan Thread
- Replies: 793
- Views: 404480
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Hi Nathan, Thank you for operating this wonderful forum and sacrificing your time for us! I am writing on a fantasy novel that's nearing completion and while I am writing it for the simple reason that I love writing, I'd like to at least try getting it published. Now, the thing is, I have written it...