Recent content by Karlin

Being a child sometimes is GOOD.

Strange is Good

INteresting idea. I've never tried this

I'm not sure if this is aimed at me. In any case, i go over the manuscript several times before paying an editor to help me out. I don't think in terms of " this is my first draft, this is #1 revision, this is #2, and so on." Maybe because i never took a writing course. So I don't know the...

I work with a developmental editor. I can't see some of the issues on my own. I have not counted before and after, but I think I've added more than deleted. Issues are pacing, things out of order ( the character doesn't know something yet), confusion as to who is talking, lack of closure for...

Purim is approaching soon. Get a set of family and friends to dress up as teh different characters, and have them act out your story. All will become clear.

Here's a MAnas recital video

Is rhyming essential for an epic? I think not

Thank you. Besides writing, he made me think about music. Even without AI: Why do people learn and play musical instruments? They can hear professional recorded versions whenever they want, and have been able to for a few genrations now. Yet people take piano or guitar lessons. Because of what...

I also don't plan. They basically cook in teh background. I'll sometimes think o fthem conciously, or something will come up and I say "oh , that will fit in with story X"

I always have multiple story ideas while I am writing another one. They cook in the back of my mind whileI finish my Work in Progress. That mght mean a couple of years

Hello Melanie. And great on finishing your first book. Many don't get that far. Keep at it!

I can't help but think of Joseph Conrad, one of the really great English language writers. His native language was Polish. I've read a bit of Classic Chinese literature, and I am sure that some stylistic elements creep into my writing. Not in sentence structure, though, partly because I read...

English is fine, but I must ask- why not an Arabic language fantasy?

Here's a curious fact: A team translated Gilgamesh into Biblical Hebrew, thinking that it was close to the Akkadian ( I think that was the version they used), or at least closer than any modern language. And far more people read Biblical Hebrew than Akkadian. It reads Biblical. Some of teh...