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Mad Swede replied to the thread Three and a half years of writing ... and I still have no clue what I'm doing!.The benefits of a military career. We're trained to deal with uncertainty. ;) -
Mad Swede replied to the thread Three and a half years of writing ... and I still have no clue what I'm doing!.Sorry? You think anyone in publishing has a clue? Let me put it this way. I have a publishing contract and four books out there, and I...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Anthropic AI Class Action Lawsuit.For the current state of play and what you as an author need to think about see the Writer Beware blog: Writer Beware
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Your first writings?.The earliest drafts of scenes in what became my first novel were written whilst I was serving with the Swedish Army on the UN mission...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread What about archaic-style language?.Writing in an ornate style in any language is fine, and some modern literary works are written like that. But to pull it off you need a...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread marginalized characters that were added just to help get a book published.This is where it gets interesting. Fantasy books appeal to a wide range of potential readers and can sell very well, especially if...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread marginalized characters that were added just to help get a book published.I asked my publishers managing director about this, as I happened to meet him today and we had a chat over coffee and cake. His reply...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread marginalized characters that were added just to help get a book published.Yes, you could leave some of many of the details to the readers, let them do some of the work, as skip.knox suggests. For me, that leads...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread marginalized characters that were added just to help get a book published.I was intending to stay out of this discussion, but given that I'm so severely dyslexic that I qualify as disabled I'm going to shove my...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread How much should we explain existing mythology in our stories?.I've been following this thread for a few days, and it strikes me that we may be missing something. The challenge is how we convey the...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Descriptions of fight scenes.Maybe an example would help illustrate what I mean. This extract, translated from the latest novella: Aiming out through the doorway...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Descriptions of fight scenes.It isn't tunnel vision, at least not in the sense most people use that expression. This is very hard to describe, and I'm not sure...
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Mythology is how groups explain things from why the length of daytime varies during the course of a year to why a woman having her... -
Mad Swede replied to the thread How do I convince my parents that good signal strength is important for internet speed..Signal strength is not the issue. Your wireless network capacity and hence network speed is determined by the number of channels being...