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My team runs on average 7 - 9 POV characters per book. It takes a lot of organization and planning. Sure, there are a couple of people... -
skip.knox replied to the thread WRITING a magic system..The comments above are useful and you should heed them. I'll add another comment that I hope will prove useful. You could write a scene...
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skip.knox replied to the thread When I request feedback, would it be helpful to note when a character goes 'off script' ?.I have characters that are a puzzle to me even after two novels with them. I never regard what my characters do as off-script. I try...
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skip.knox replied to the thread 3 MC discussion.It does make sense, and I think your instincts are right. If you have characters A, B, and C, and C is never driving the plot, then C is...
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skip.knox replied to the thread WRITING a magic system..Have you tried using magic in a scene? Not in the whole story; don't worry about that yet, and don't worry about the whole magic system...
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skip.knox reacted to A. E. Lowan's post in the thread Hey so our production team talked about this... with
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Yes, any time a publisher wants money from you, it's a scam. Full stop. In Publishing, money flows from the publisher to the writer and... -
skip.knox reacted to Mad Swede's post in the thread Hey so our production team talked about this... with Like.
I'll write it again. No serious publisher is ever going to make a statement like that to you. So don't spend any time thinking about how...
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It should be noted that astronomers have discovered over 6.000 planets. No men have been observed on any of them. At this point, it's...
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skip.knox replied to the thread Writing tip of the day.That is one way of going about writing. There are others. A great many very famous and successful and admirable authors wrote for mass...
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skip.knox replied to the thread Hey so our production team talked about this....You are speaking of a theoretical. The original post led me, and others here I think, to read it as something that actually happened to...
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skip.knox replied to the thread What inspired you to write?.Like others here, I write because there is no option not to write. I've been doing it all my life, though for most of it I was pretty...
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skip.knox replied to the thread Careful with your research.Related to Karlin's point about secondary sources, I would draw a wide and bright line between scholarly secondary sources and YouTube...
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skip.knox replied to the thread Careful with your research.Using only the AI summary for your research is not the fault of AI, it's the fault of the researcher. Historians are taught to consult...
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skip.knox reacted to Miles Lacey's post in the thread marginalized characters that were added just to help get a book published with Like.
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...