Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi → Acts/ Dictates/ Mandates/ Mantle - Amy's Thread
I love your spreadsheets, K. Just another reason to show you're the cool guy on this site. I'm thinking and will rewrite this weekend. Just another thing that could be accomplished over the next two days. Frought with potential, I say! So why am I sitting in a car dealership getting a quote on a new car?
The slather bread business isn't pimarily comedy. It's character.
Further thought on my Dictates review: Are you getting Alda lined up in the teaze-Taz alignment? What about Jaylene? Tazar is used to working with her as one of the Wolves. Their axis has to be effective.
K, regarding your recent review: don't sea snakes have partial dorsal fins?
Give me some time to think about it. I'm still thinking of the three stooges dynamic though
Give me some time to think about it. I'm still thinking of the three stooges dynamic though
Are you back yet or still mingling with the writing elite in Chicago?!
I protest! The writing elite live in NJ. I even have my own copy of Writing Fiction for Dummies. I can already feel the royalties rolling in.
I'm done with the conference. I actually stayed upright for the whole thing instead of trying to get myself admitted to the hospital like last year. They mostly cater to women's lit, and nonfiction, but the info was useful.
They recommended classes that didn't teach what you already knew, so I went to classes on live literature, how to break into the film industry, how to self-market your book, finding an agent, and how to write a query letter (cute way to remember-it's about the hook, the book, and the cook.)
I ate a monster steak, slept poorly on a rock hard bed, finished and posted the latest chapter of Dictates, forgot my 2nd season of GOT at home, and met with a friend for a couple hours afterwards the convention ended. Talked with strangers and am exchanging first chapters with one while I listened to pitches from another. Then I critiqued another woman's poetry.
It was worth my time. So was two days respite from my children:-)
Google Sarcosuchus and Spinosaurus pictures. That was what I was trying to convey with the second critter. The first one was one molt shy of a dragon. But if you really want creepy eyes under the water, I'll see what I can come up with. (Heh, heh)
I just bought Lord of the Rings for Kindle. It's probably been two decades since I last read it. A chance to read it from the perspective of a writer.
(Jealous!) What I wouldn't do to have the time to sit down with a book and let the world fall away...
Meanie. I trip up on one word. One word, people!
It's no fair. Your stones come with pictures. I'll just have to pay you back with volume. You have to stop giving me so many chances!
(Jealous!) What I wouldn't do to have the time to sit down with a book and let the world fall away...
I have recently been unable to continue about three different book series because all I can think about while reading is how to write it better. o.0 Is this normal?
I have a similar experience, but with movies & TV. My friend is an actor, so he's told me all about the process of making them. As a result, I now wonder about the making of something (e.g., counting extras, wondering if something is CGI), rather than becoming immersed in the story. One major exception is The West Wing. The characters and stories are so good, the only time I wonder about the making of that show is when I notice how long the camera stays on the actors as they walk/talk (usually quickly) inside the set without a cut. They walk through hallways, past cubicles, around corners, into rooms, out the other side, etc, passing any number of extras walking, talking on phones, making photocopies, chatting, delivering mail, etc., all of it perfectly timed.
And all of that very expensive. But the cost of the sets gets spread out some across the episodes.
I stopped reading for pleasure when I got serious about writing. It seems to be one or the other for me. I went back and reread Anne McCaffery's Crystal Singer, but that is the only exception in two years. I'll revert back to reading later but I have to finish my story first and don't want the distraction.
I stopped reading for pleasure when I got serious about writing. It seems to be one or the other for me. I went back and reread Anne McCaffery's Crystal Singer, but that is the only exception in two years. I'll revert back to reading later but I have to finish my story first and don't want the distraction.
I was reading the Gentlemen Bastards series by Scott Lynch when I started getting back into writing and didn't have any issues, but every time I start reading any novels that are at a lower reading level, my writer instincts go into overdrive. I used to enjoy a wide variety of novels, but now only my favorite high-reading-level novels will do. (all of which have sequels with pending release dates 
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-Elisheva
Written in a very different time. The dragon rider series has F'lar smacking around Lessa to calm her down. I didn't read these for life lessons. They were just good characters and good story.
I have recently been unable to continue about three different book series because all I can think about while reading is how to write it better. o.0 Is this normal?
Yes, yes it is normal - both of us can't be the problem?!
But seriously, I have an epic rant or three in the Romance Group going where I'm ripping books apart. It hasn't been that way before I joined this site and is only getting worse. It's gotten so bad I don't even finish them anymore - and that was something I have never been able to do no matter how bad the book. Lately, it happens more often than not. o.O^2
My biggest worry is that someone else will do the same to my books. But meh, you can't please everyone, just as long as you've done your best.
But seriously, I have an epic rant or three in the Romance Group going where I'm ripping books apart. It hasn't been that way before I joined this site and is only getting worse. It's gotten so bad I don't even finish them anymore ...
Oh dear! Have I made of you a participle partisan?
janet reid wrote:But seriously, I have an epic rant or three in the Romance Group going where I'm ripping books apart. It hasn't been that way before I joined this site and is only getting worse. It's gotten so bad I don't even finish them anymore ...
Oh dear! Have I made of you a participle partisan?
80% damage njc, 20% damage Amy (K doesn't feature because he goes easy on romance novels, he says) - and maybe more unleashing the participle partisan in me than anything else LOL I'm sure my siblings will be able to entertain you for hours with stories of how "pedantic" I can be if I put my mind to it! LOL
The mechanic knows you have to tighten the bolts in the right order. The engineer knows why the right order is the right order.
The mechanic knows you have to tighten the bolts in the right order. The engineer knows why the right order is the right order.
I go "easier" on romance than fantasy, but not easy, no. Easy is me reviewing a Western. As long as you got horses and cowboys, I give it a thumbs up
My next novel is going to be Western, set in the 16th century on the northern border of England. It'll be worth it, yes?! 
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