Recent content by Karlin

I'm a pantser, and this work was supposed to be a planned one. I have a vague idea who The Heroes are going to be (mostly existing legendary figures), but I didn't make a list. Yet. When faced with the blank page, though, my immediate thought was 'who to start with?'. After an hour, I knew...

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I was taking a break from writing, to take care of some other commitments, specifically a family history album. Well, I couldn't not write for very long, so I started a new work today. It is a little weird putting down the few first words, even knowing that I'll probably revise them soon enough...

It would have made the book short and boring. So of course it couldn't work.

every chapter, every paragraph counts. Don't belittle yourself.

In the meantime we visited Florence (Firenze). I've made a few more changes to my text, and am printing up a hard copy as I write this.I'll do one more round of editing, get some beta reader feedback, and then send to my usual editor. I gave her a heads-up already.

I woRRy aboUt such thNgs aftEr finisjunG a drafT

A tie between Boris Badanov and Snidely Whiplash.

I don't see the advantage in analyzing poor writing, rather than learning from good writing.

I know you always say that, but I disagree. I say: Read a lot, and write as much as you can."

In my novel, The Second Journey, on of the main characters originally went by multiple names. The monkey King, Sun Wukong, Pilgrim, Great Sage....i was following the Chinese Journey to the West. Very quickly i discovered that this was confusing to readers ( beta readers complained).

You are naming the chapters to help the reader know who's viewpoint it is. 1. Do you really need to? Won't the reader understand whose viewpoint it is after a few sentences? 2. My attitude is: write first, worry about such details later.

An experience. We were in Rome a few years ago, and in teh entrance area to the Vatican museums I saw a tourist who was heavily tattooed. He was busy zipping legs onto his pants ( youi need to be properly dressed there). Then we went into the museum, and in the sistine chapel, I had a vision ...

I finished a first draft of my current project. It took about 10 months to write, a good part of it research. I've got a list of things to look for when editing, ranging from the weather to characters who might require more development ( I need to be careful with this, as I don't want to lose...

I've run into this issue with my current work, a time travel story involving Michelangelo. "Everybody knows" that he was gay, but in reaity many of us want him to be gay. It's not that clear that he was. Not to mention that it is very problematic projecting modern ideas of sexuality on 16th...