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skip.knox replied to the thread Most recent books you bought..Two more books by Patrick Leigh Fermor, both about Greece. One, Roumeli is about northern Greece while Mani is down in the Peloponnese... -
skip.knox replied to the thread Is "Head Hopping" Good or Bad?.I find it more useful for myself not to call it head hopping. The phrase is pejorative from the start. It's switching the point of view...
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skip.knox replied to the thread How to 'kill' the he said/she said habit?.>use it less like others here have suggested. You can look elsewhere and find not merely suggestions but outright recommendations to use...
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skip.knox replied to the thread How to 'kill' the he said/she said habit?.Why are you trying to do this? Just write stuff and use the saids wherever it feels right. Make changes in the edit, sure, but not in...
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skip.knox replied to the thread How do you create your World?.First thank you for that about Tolkien. I've not read much beyond his main novels, plus Farmer Giles of Ham. WRT the MA, there is a...
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skip.knox replied to the thread How do you create your World?.It would be interesting to know how completely built was Middle Earth before Tolkien began writing stories set within it. I don't know...
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skip.knox replied to the thread Dense Prose or Rich Prose?.>literary racketeering I have adopted this phrase into my lexicon!
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That's handy to know regarding csv files. I created a spreadsheet for this purpose as well last year, but I find it more engaging to add...
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skip.knox replied to the thread Reading Tracker Recommendation.My Goodreads data is out of date now. I got frustrated with that platform and downloaded all into a spreadsheet, then started adding...
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skip.knox replied to the thread Reading Tracker Recommendation.Can I upload the several hundred books I've been keeping in a spreadsheet?
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Unless 'plan' is here defined differently than I would image, aren't fantasy stories involving a quest essentially using 'plans'? The...
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skip.knox replied to the thread Coming up with the plan.Exactly this. Most of those planning scenes are to be found in movies. They're there for a particular purpose: to mislead the audience...
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skip.knox replied to the thread Calendars in Worldbuilding..I write alternate historical fantasy, firmly set in an alternate Europe. You'd think that'd make things simpler, but it really doesn't...
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skip.knox reacted to pmmg's post in the thread My "Warm" Welcome to Reddit Where Decency is a Crime and AI-Phobia is a Religion with
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skip.knox replied to the thread My "Warm" Welcome to Reddit Where Decency is a Crime and AI-Phobia is a Religion.Just to drop something into the other side of the scale, I don't recall ever having a bad experience on reddit. Like others here, it is...