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- October 8th, 2019, 6:37 pm
- Forum: Nominate Your Query or First Page for a Critique on the Blog
- Topic: NEW - Nominate Your Query for a Critique on the Blog
- Replies: 152
- Views: 127016
Re: NEW - Nominate Your Query for a Critique on the Blog
Dear [Agent], Reggie Kaplan is a Conjurer--one of a rare cohort who possess a telekinetic ability to manipulate atoms and molecules, and who are conscripted into public service converting waste into resources for communities across the nation. After violating Guild law by accidentally injuring anoth...
- September 7th, 2019, 5:11 pm
- Forum: Nominate Your Query or First Page for a Critique on the Blog
- Topic: NEW - Nominate Your First Page for a Critique on the Blog
- Replies: 208
- Views: 181040
Re: NEW - Nominate Your First Page for a Critique on the Blog
Title: The Conjurers Genre: Sci-Fi Reggie Kaplan had finally gotten her son down for a nap not ten minutes earlier and was eight clues deep into the daily crossword when the inspectors knocked. Same as always--three booms with the fist followed by a cheery knuckle rap--a command glossed with entreat...
- March 2nd, 2011, 12:01 am
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: This is going to bother me...
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4100
Re: This is going to bother me...
Thank you, Polymath. You make me feel so validated :)
Play-by-play first person narration drives me batty, and is a major reason I have trouble getting drawn into a lot of YA.
Play-by-play first person narration drives me batty, and is a major reason I have trouble getting drawn into a lot of YA.
- January 22nd, 2011, 1:44 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: is there a novel in there or did i just do a short story?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2674
Re: is there a novel in there or did i just do a short story?
What I think it comes down to is: at what length can the heart of what you're trying to tell be done in a dramatically satisfying way? The heart is that spark that compelled you to write in the first place. Was it a character? A theme? I don't know what genre you're writing in, but take, for example...
- January 22nd, 2011, 1:07 pm
- Forum: Books
- Topic: Steampunk Recommendations
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4219
Re: Steampunk Recommendations
"The Diamond Age" by Neal Stephenson. Not his best, but his closest to Steampunk.
- January 22nd, 2011, 12:46 pm
- Forum: Books
- Topic: China Mieville THE CITY AND THE CITY
- Replies: 13
- Views: 14167
Re: China Mieville THE CITY AND THE CITY
Like others, I've only read the sample chapters of "The City and the City", but when I was on vacation a few months ago "Perdido Street Station" was the first novel I read on my Kindle, as well as my first time reading Urban Fantasy, and it blew me away. I plowed through it. I wa...
- August 11th, 2010, 11:14 pm
- Forum: Books
- Topic: Your favorite first-person novels
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4219
Re: Your favorite first-person novels
I second the previous mentions of 'A Handmaid's Tale' and 'Lolita'. Although I haven't read it since high school, I remember really enjoying the Quention section of 'The Sound and the Fury' as well. I tend to have a lower tolerance for first-person narrative. I'm not a big fan of YA, and I think the...
- August 4th, 2010, 11:04 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Do we have any screenplay writers in our midst?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3088
Re: Do we have any screenplay writers in our midst?
My current WIP is my first novel. I studied screenwriting in school, and at first found it really hard to un-train myself of the constraints of screenwriting. My biggest challenge was learning that it's ok to go into the character's head, since in screenplays it's a no-no to describe anything that c...
- June 14th, 2010, 10:16 pm
- Forum: Finding An Agent
- Topic: Is this a partial request?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4596
Re: Is this a partial request?
I am nowhere near this far in the process, but I was always under the impression that a partial was a couple of chapters, not just a few pages.
- June 13th, 2010, 12:11 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: When the first draft is done - what next?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4988
Re: When the first draft is done - what next?
I haven't finished my first draft yet - and I will likely launch straight into revisions - but once I have a polished enough version to kick out to beta readers I will likely work on a short story. It depends on your genre (mine's Science Fiction), but I have a short story idea on the backburner and...
- June 13th, 2010, 12:05 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Plotters/Outliners - do you plan your exposition?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 6060
Re: Plotters/Outliners - do you plan your exposition?
Thanks for the responses everyone! I guess I'm a perfectionist. I keep stopping myself as I write the first draft and reworking the plot - including when certain 'pieces of the puzzle' need to be dribbled out. :)
- June 10th, 2010, 12:30 am
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Plotters/Outliners - do you plan your exposition?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 6060
Plotters/Outliners - do you plan your exposition?
I'm curious - for those of you who outline before you write, do you only outline the plot or do you also plan in advance when and how you're going to reveal your exposition? My WIP is science fiction and I'm struggling with slowly peeling off the layers of worldbuilding in "show" vs. neces...
- June 9th, 2010, 11:24 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: 453960
Re: Nominate Your First Page for a Critique on the Blog
Title: Apotheosis Genre: Science Fiction Word Count: 257 (is there some margin? Didn't want to cut off mid-sentence) There had always been people who mistrusted the doctors, avoided them, feared them. Men who had convinced themselves that taking care of oneself was a greater sign of weakness than a ...
- May 30th, 2010, 2:27 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: The rules of "stronger" writing... lol?
- Replies: 52
- Views: 18438
Re: The rules of "stronger" writing... lol?
I also think there is a distinction in using adverbs in description vs. using adverbs as part of dialogue tags. I think it's the latter that feels like lazier, or weaker, writing. There's a 'no dialogue tags other than said' rule, and the use of adverbs therein seems to add insult to injury for a lo...
- May 29th, 2010, 12:54 pm
- Forum: Finding An Agent
- Topic: REVISION SUGGESTIONS FROM AGENT
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3170
Re: REVISION SUGGESTIONS FROM AGENT
Some friends are suggesting that I ought to be asking for a contract at this point and saying they would refuse to do any more gratis work, that the agent should provide me with an editor to help. I just wonder what you, as an agent, think about that. I'm not an agent, nor have even begun querying ...