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- August 16th, 2010, 7:11 pm
- Forum: Excerpts
- Topic: I'm A Nobody, YA Fantasy, First Page
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3318
Re: I'm A Nobody, YA Fantasy, First Page
Newest version, after Nathan's Page critique monday. And tried to clear up the "Someone else can do it too" line. And the reason for the MC being in the school is explained on page two. Wandering around at night is how he experiments with his powers. Hide. I obeyed the voice in my head wi...
- August 14th, 2010, 3:43 pm
- Forum: Social Media and Book Promotion
- Topic: Do you have a new blog post?
- Replies: 2655
- Views: 822851
Re: Do you have a new blog post?
An update on my work and my life: http://williammjones.blogspot.com/2010/ ... 81410.html
- August 10th, 2010, 9:42 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Can we start calling it something other than a query?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 6337
Re: Can we start calling it something other than a query?
Business offer?
Help wanted letter?
Help wanted letter?
- August 10th, 2010, 8:20 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: My dad is dyslexic
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1871
Re: My dad is dyslexic
Oh, I think I know something that might help. I wrote a blog post on it a few weeks ago: http://williammjones.blogspot.com/2010/07/editing-tools.html In the post I mentioned a text to speech program called Natural Reader. You put your text into it, and it reads it back to you. It can even turn the t...
- August 7th, 2010, 5:14 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Wackiest "advice"/comments you've gotten from non-writers
- Replies: 36
- Views: 17524
Re: Wackiest "advice"/comments you've gotten from non-writers
From my brother: You finished that book months ago, why are you still working on it? (Uh, it's called editing.)
- August 6th, 2010, 7:57 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Share your opening sentence!
- Replies: 236
- Views: 86729
Re: Share your opening sentence!
I'm cheating and posting my first two sentances, because my first is only one word.
Hide. I obeyed the voice in my head without question.
Hide. I obeyed the voice in my head without question.
- August 6th, 2010, 11:44 am
- Forum: Procrastination
- Topic: Rate your WiP Titles!
- Replies: 30
- Views: 9507
Re: Rate your WiP Titles!
Oh, sounds fun. Gunmetal Grey: I would probabally pick it up and look at a page or two. It's short, simple, and sounds like a fun read. When the stormbirds fly: I like the sound of the title, but probabally wouldn't look past the back cover, mainly because I don't read Historical Romance. Here's min...
- August 6th, 2010, 10:27 am
- Forum: Social Media and Book Promotion
- Topic: Do you have a new blog post?
- Replies: 2655
- Views: 822851
Re: Do you have a new blog post?
An escerpt from my WIP: http://williammjones.blogspot.com/2010/ ... so-im.html
I forgot to title the blog post at first, and I'm kind of amused at the address it was assigned.
I forgot to title the blog post at first, and I'm kind of amused at the address it was assigned.
- August 2nd, 2010, 10:12 am
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Text to speech software
- Replies: 24
- Views: 7619
Re: Text to speech software
I don't know which versions of windows has it, but I know my laptop comes with a program called "windows speech recognition". It trains itself to listen to a specific users voice, and allows speech to text, as well as controlling everything else on your computer. Plus it's free. It's prett...
- August 1st, 2010, 9:35 pm
- Forum: Queries
- Topic: The Super Incredible Pre-Agent Tester!
- Replies: 29
- Views: 10623
Re: The Super Incredible Pre-Agent Tester!
Form rejection, and I probably wouldn't read the pages. No offense, the query was just a little vague.
(Sorry, My mistake.)
(Sorry, My mistake.)
- July 31st, 2010, 7:48 pm
- Forum: Social Media and Book Promotion
- Topic: Do you have a new blog post?
- Replies: 2655
- Views: 822851
Re: Do you have a new blog post?
How Villains should be three dimensional characters with backgrounds and motives. And a link to a list all evil overlords should keep tapped to the fridge.
http://williammjones.blogspot.com/2010/07/villians.html
http://williammjones.blogspot.com/2010/07/villians.html
- July 30th, 2010, 1:42 am
- Forum: Procrastination
- Topic: My writer’s block is soooooo bad…
- Replies: 21
- Views: 6742
- July 24th, 2010, 8:06 pm
- Forum: Social Media and Book Promotion
- Topic: Do you have a new blog post?
- Replies: 2655
- Views: 822851
Re: Do you have a new blog post?
My unproffesional views on developing realistic character: http://williammjones.blogspot.com/2010/ ... cters.html
- July 23rd, 2010, 9:32 pm
- Forum: Queries
- Topic: I'm A Nobody, newest on page four
- Replies: 34
- Views: 12060
Re: I'm A Nobody, YA Fantasy (New draft and a question)
I can't really judge the title from an unbiased viewpoint because I really like it. In the book one of the half Fey characters quotes Emily Dickinson's poem: I'm Nobody. She likes the poem because her name is also Emily, and because she considers Half Fey to be Nobodies. The humans (She calls them S...
- July 23rd, 2010, 3:55 pm
- Forum: Queries
- Topic: I'm A Nobody, newest on page four
- Replies: 34
- Views: 12060
Re: I'm A Nobody, YA Fantasy (2nd draft on page 2)
Newest Draft My main question now is: does this query give some clue to the unique elements of the story? Is there still anything that seems cliche or overdone? Dear (Agent name): Dominic Taylor is able to do strange things, such as opening locked doors and passing by security cameras undetected. H...