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Mad Swede replied to the thread Descriptions of fight scenes.What is hard to capture is how those involved in the fight see things. Sure, the witnesses all think it happens so fast. And maybe it... -
Mad Swede replied to the thread Is being very descriptive a necessity in this sort of writing?.I got the same criticism from my editor when we were working to get my first book ready for publication. Her guidance was fairly simple...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Are story ideas truly 'cheap'?.Ah, the never ending debate about adverbs. As sales of both the Belgariad and the Harry Potter books show, the reading public don't give...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Are story ideas truly 'cheap'?.Musical notes are cheap in the sense that they are common. All of us who play an instrument know the scales, the chords and the keys...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Are story ideas truly 'cheap'?.You shouldn't recoil from it, in my opinion. As I so often do, I'm going to take David and Leigh Eddings The Belgariad as an example...
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So hey. STONELANDS has broken even. Including the film option, it’s now in the black. As I mentioned a few months ago, I’ve nuked my...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Are story ideas truly 'cheap'?.I think this depends on what you mean by idea. In writing it's often taken to mean the concept for a story. That concept could be...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread how do I turn an antagonist into a protagonist.I think you need to do more with your antagonist than you suggest. What you're asking your readers to accept is a sort of heel-face...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread How to NOT get discouraged from writing when faced with the genius of others?.I'm going to agree with A. E. Lowan and add something. It generally isn't your contemporaries who decide if you're a literary genius...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Scrivener and Revision.You do not need to start subscribing to Office 365 if you upgrade to Windows 11. You can still buy the standalone version of Office and...
