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I had a day last week which for me is as good as it gets. I probably wrote about 8000 words which took my WIP from "needing a lot of... -
Mad Swede replied to the thread Inspiration struck....That's hard to explain given that I think it all through in my head before I start writing. It just happens, and in this case it started...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread How to set the scene..In my view this depends on what sort of scene you are writing, by which I mean where in the story does it occur? The way you set up the...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Most recent books you bought..Gurkhal's translation is more accurate, but what I wanted to add is that Villhelm Moberg wrote the The Emigrants series of four books...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Chapter length?.Er, no. As a rule you and your editor will work out how long each chapter should be, based on the needs of the story. This is what my...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Chapter length?.If you use chapters to divide your story they should be as long as required for your story to flow. There is no set length at all.
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Mad Swede reacted to Karlin's post in the thread Finished a first draft of my Michelangelo time travel novel with
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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... -
Well everyone's different and I'm sure your brain is very different from mine, but it does sound as though our generative experiences...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Inspiration struck....It's when inspiration strikes like it did this time that I really land in the zone. In that zone my inspiration and my writing are on...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Inspiration struck....It's all about concentration. This is, for me, one of the most important things about writing (or doing anything else) well. It takes...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Inspiration struck....And now the spelling and grammar corrections are done, and I'm about half way through adding the last bits of prose. I'm really quite...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Strange Problem ?.Don't use the back arrow on your browser, it takes you back to the old version of the previous page. Click on the relevant part of the...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread What is your worlds stance on lgbtq folks?.Well, in my setting there is nothing in the law covering LGBTQ+people or acts. So technically these things aren't illegal. That doesn't...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread How do you keep dread alive when nothing scary is happening yet?.For me building tension in writing is all about triggering emotions in the reader. By that I mean that I try to put the reader in the...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Fantasy/fiction in modern setting.I'm not sure where to begin, or how to put this. But... First, using an example like Don Quixote doesn't work. That book was...