Recent content by kyrrimar

A gazebo? I waste it with my crossbow!! <smirk>

Many good points here. Lots. I love writing dialogue. Too much, really. It is something I had to get control of as a writer. haha My gut feeling is that writing "realistic" dialogue simply doesn't work. At least not entirely. It isn't the hems and haws and idiom and tics. Those can be...

This thread touched a nerve for me because I went through a very dark time where I set all my creative endeavors aside in favor of what I felt needed to be done because of extraordinary personal circumstances. Since all my other dreams and aspirations were crashing and burning, it didn't seem...

I had frequent, vivid flying/soaring dreams as a child--freedom and broadened perspective and feeling safe as I seem to recall. Greatest fear was falling, which I would invariably do. I would try everything I could think of to stay in flight and remember the sheer terror of knowing that I was...

I agree. But dang, these things sell in the millions.

"...fantasy is indulgent..." Yes, yes it is. Some writers (and readers) long to bathe in the worldbuilding river, lingering there for pages, not bothered that the plot is going downstream with them. Others just want to make it across alive. :LOL:

I can't speak to most of this, only to your last statement. You are absolutely right. Take the time to prepare for a successful launch and your book is going to potentially do much better. I keep getting prodded about platforms (ack, social media, ack, ack, ack) and how and why you "need"...

A thin line indeed, and one that I think earlier generations didn't worry themselves about as much as some readers/writers do today. Is Pern SF or fantasy? Does it matter? Just write the story that needs to be written with the elements necessary to tell the story. Got faeries? Cool. Got...