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Mad Swede reacted to A. E. Lowan's post in the thread Authors Guild Zoom on Estate Planning for Writers with
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Who qualifies as 'indie?' And for that matter, do you have the foggiest idea how we get paid in this industry? Let's go down the row...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Why Events are Valuable.What's being missed in some of the comments here, and what John Hartness didn't say, is that for most authors all these events are...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Why Events are Valuable.My publishers rarely do events, mostly because we don't have that many in the Nordic countries. What my publishers do more often is book...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread When and When not to capitalize phrases?.Trust me, it is in this case. To take Swedish and the other Nordic languages as an example, proper nouns and proper names are sometimes...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread How To Improve My Creativity.I think I'd first ask you what you mean by creativity? Generally, creativity is (in western countries) taken to mean the ability to...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread When and When not to capitalize phrases?.OK. First, what you are asking is when to capitalise nouns and names, not phrases. And the answer - in the English language - is...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Inspiration struck....Maybe I'm being unclear. I write only one draft, which then goes to my editor. My editor then reviews the manuscript and suggests edits...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Inspiration struck....I have a publishing contract, and that (of course) includes editing before publication. I have always had the same editor. This is the...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread How do you keep your world notes useful while drafting?.Well, given that I'm a one pass writer who thinks the whole story through first and then writes it down I don't keep any notes at all...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread The true story of a 15th-Century sexual assault survivor's quest for justice.No, it's on the internet. Just click on the link.
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Mad Swede posted the thread The true story of a 15th-Century sexual assault survivor's quest for justice in Writing Discussions.The following article on the BBC News website is very interesting and should be read by any author writing a story set in a western...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Inspiration struck....And now the novel is done. My editor was quietly impressed after completing her first read through yesterday. Now all that remains is to...
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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...
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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...