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Miles Lacey reacted to xena's post in the thread What's the best writing advice you ever received? with
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“Write the scene like only you can.” It remind me to stop chasing perfection and just tell the story my way. This is the best writing... -
Miles Lacey replied to the thread What's the best writing advice you ever received?.Keep it simple. Only add detail if something deviates from what would be expected, it's vital to the story that we have those details...
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Miles Lacey replied to the thread marginalized characters that were added just to help get a book published.Zen Cho is based in Birmingham in the United Kingdom but the book was published in the United States. It was written in English except...
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Miles Lacey reacted to Mad Swede's post in the thread marginalized characters that were added just to help get a book published with Like.
And it doesn't occur to you that there may be a reason for a Malaysian to live in the UK and write a book with a lesbian character like...
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Miles Lacey replied to the thread marginalized characters that were added just to help get a book published.It may seem as if the author of Black Water Sister has made the main character lesbian so she can sell a few extra books but that isn't...
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Miles Lacey replied to the thread Does anyone know where I can get stats for city populations in years past?.Just one thing to keep in mind when looking up population figures for a city in 1900. The boundaries of the city in 1900 may not be the...
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Miles Lacey replied to the thread marginalized characters that were added just to help get a book published.I have non-white characters because my WIP is set on a tropical island and I happen to find creating cultures based on those of...
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Miles Lacey replied to the thread Three and a half years of writing ... and I still have no clue what I'm doing!.Here are some of the road blocks I've faced over the years: 1. Past experience of publishing stuff that was trashed by others. 2...
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Miles Lacey reacted to Gurkhal's post in the thread How much should we explain existing mythology in our stories? with Like.
I shall offer another suggestion. If you feel that the reader needs to know some extensive mythology but you don't want to do an info...
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Miles Lacey replied to the thread How much should we explain existing mythology in our stories?.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...