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Thanks for the shout-out Jonathan! It's always a blast working with you. If memory serves, you did get an offer of representation by an agent or two but decided to pass when D&OB was interested without an agent. have I got that wrong?
Strong stories often have a good balance of both! www.authorlearningcenter.com/writing/fiction/w/character-development/4202/character-driven-vs.-plot-driven-_2d00_-video
In addition to self-editing, we recommend selecting a group of beta readers to review your work and provide feedback prior to publishing. If you'd like to learn more about finding beta readers, you can check the Peer Reviews section of the ALC website: www.authorlearningcenter.com/writing/getting-feedback/w/peer-reviews
Representative of the steampunk genre of writing, a subgenre of science fiction that incorporates retro-futuristic technology and is inspired by 19th-century industrial steam-powered machinery.
A liver transplant surgeon and a pediatric nephrologist have asked me to write my 35 years as mom/advocate of 3 kids now grown. 6 kidney transplants between them, one now needs a kidney & liver. I know history, pioneers in many respects. I'm going to try to write.
I like what was said but feel a better way of saying it is: talent is equally distributed around the world, but opportunity is not. I am sure there is a boy in Kenya who can write better than I can, but will be undiscovered because of challenges in his life. But the opposite may be true as well. A woman of fiscal wealth may be published because her husband knows a man in the publishing world and gets her book published who outright sucks.
You told us what a "good story" IS, and you told us what a "great story" SHOULD be, but you never actually explained what a "great story" IS other than some vague hits on literary writers that reads like heady hyperbole. Specificity and examples would have worked best.
Interesting comments. Thank you. Tip four (?) is called 'show, don't tell'. It is always better to do this if you can, though it often uses more words to achieve it. These tips are valid for the great majority of novels, though if you're producing some thing like W. G. Sebald's The Rings of Saturn you may be guided by other principles.
The majority of publishers are Left-collective fascists rejecting anything that does not tick politically correct boxes,resulting in banal pap, usually by women.
Thanks for the info.Question. How do you suggest querying a library to order my self-published book? Should I send an email with a sales sheet attachment?
Hmm, I have a question. I'm a tarot reader and have a professional name in that space that I use for my clients, youtube and blog for my business. Right now, I'm getting into copywriting as a day job, but I also want to write blogs in the spiritual/occult space professionally. So, I wonder if it's best to use my tarot name or my real name?
I recently read this book. It was the only adventure book on the particular library shelf. I was impressed. I must say this self-rescue was beyond words. But...what also stuck in my mind was the rescue of Shaheen Baig by Nadir Ali, the cook and gofer/occasional high altitude porter. That was also solo, unsupported [except by the medical instructions (and injectibles) by Eric Meyer from Camp 2]. I would really like an epilogue. Thank you.
She’s certainly written on some fascinating topics, but compared to Sam Kean, Carl Zimmer, Phillip Ball, Mary Roach, and many others, her writing is DRY and DULL, NOT PULITZER QUALITY, occasionally incorrect, and inappropriately dispassionate in an effort to appear in a naively hopeful middle state. Here, it seems she overlooks the unimaginable suffering of sentient animals and colossal arrogance of human exceptionalism and ideas of superiority, the frequent lack of necessity or benefit of cruel research. The only scenario that could possibly enlightens these folks is for them to become subjects of similar research, finding themselves strapped to a table, instruments out, no possibility of escape, held for torture re-branded as “research” by creatures intellectually superior, but morally bereft, extremely fcked-up.
