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Using the onomatopoeia of a sound is a common practice but by no means you're obliged to use it. If you don't feel comfortable including such expressions in your dialogue of prose, don't do it. Nonetheless, in my opinion, using them well doesn't rest from the seriousness of any situation may be...

As a suggestion you could play a lot with duality, giving each of the Patriarchs an equally powerful but opposite force, probably represented by one of their immortal progeny. So that at the end those who prevailed (meaning how you want things to end) represent an unbalance that needs...

Hello, I have mentioned before that I have a friend who, to keep herself busy after an accident, started a website about mythical creatures, fantastic beings, and in general any magical being, but now she's asking people to send her requests about the creatures you would like her to research...

I just finished The Martian, I loved it, it took me something like 8 hrs to finish it because I couldn't -quite literally- put the book down. Now I'm starting The Loneliest Girl in the Universe, I choose to read these two back to back because they have very similar premises but one is adult the...

She was not only a brilliant storytelling whose prose is beautiful and powerful, but she was also way ahead of her time. If you read The Left Hand of Darkness today is hard to imagine that fantastic sci fiction novel centered on issues that are so important in this moment was written fifty...

There are several pitch events a year in twitter for authors looking for agents and/or publishers, some even dedicated only to Fantasy and Science Fiction, and I wonder if anyone here has any experience with them or has heard anything (good or bad) about them?

Welcome back then!

Erikson is not the only fantasy writer who uses Anthropological principles and knowledge to build his worlds. Many great authors have done it, from Tolkien to LeGuin, and I think is what gives their work such a real feeling. Societies may change, but human interactions are preserved. I do try to...

I will simply like to say, that cliches lurk everywhere and pairing words in a particular order (e.g., head to toes; twists and turns, up and down) is nothing but giving up to the resounding pull of familiarity. In the same way that we can -and should- find new ways to say "my heart skip a bit,"...

Hello Sheilawisz, I'm glad you're ok, it's really good to know that you and your family are safe. Now, as person who grow up in Mexico City and knows how devastating these events are, I would like to ask everyone that if you can help in any way (making a donation is most often the best option...

I do think Atwood is at times snobbish, even more noticeably in recent interviews, those related with the serialization of her book, and even so, I have to agree with her in that is hard to find reasons to call The Handmaid's Tale science fiction. And yes, Atwood is now fighting to get out of...

Curiously, the ending, that epilogue you mentioned, is one of my favorite parts of this book. It works quite well by recreating the anonymity that most often enshrouds victims of totalitarian regimes, hence letting us to think in the thousands (or hundreds of thousands) of stories represented by...

I read it recently and found it fascinating. I think Margaret Atwood mastering of psychic distance is obvious in this book, and I love the claustrophobic sense it imparts to the story.

The move is done, new city, new house, same 9 cubic meters of books to put back in the selves... and all the dust they carry

Sometimes is soul crushing to realize that all your hard work means little when the judgment is given by a lazy twit. Just feeling despondent I suppose. Some of the occupational hazards of my day job.