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skip.knox replied to the thread Prose Style Concern.Thanks for the thoughtful reply. To clarify my own comments, it wasn't that I thought you were portraying eyes becoming mouths in any... -
skip.knox replied to the thread What do we think of POV writing?.Not about hiring at editor, Finchbearer -- I was interested your own thoughts on this: >Reading an article on why limiting POV to one...
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Interested in what I have to say on hiring an editor? I’m not at the stage skip.knox that would be if my work was good enough to be...
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skip.knox replied to the thread Prose Style Concern.I'll give it my best try. Understand I'm reading as a Westerner. The man’s almost-corpse dropped with the heaviness of a boulder onto...
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skip.knox replied to the thread What do we think of POV writing?.Do what's right for your story. Great advice except for when you aren't at all sure of what is right for the story. But it's advice...
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While the written material is post-Christianization, the content isn't necessarily. A lot of it points to pagan beliefs, and I will even...
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skip.knox reacted to Mad Swede's post in the thread Has anyone tried writing a modern epic? with
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I think you're possibly a little confused by epics like Beowulf and the Iliad. They were meant to be told, and their style reflects the... -
Yes, although I really wasn't aiming for fame when I sent the first story off to the publisher. Such fame as I have is very limited...
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skip.knox replied to the thread Received my first response from a publisher!.>You have to keep turning up if you're serious about being a professional novelist. Or even if you are serious about being an amateur...
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Would-be writers ask me all the time for advice and pretty much all of them are disappointed when I give it. This is more or less my...
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skip.knox replied to the thread Magic systems please!.There is a magic system for Altearth, but until modern times no one knew what it was. Instead, different people in different times and...
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skip.knox replied to the thread Collaboration.That information is over in the Promotion section. Have you looked there?
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skip.knox replied to the thread My favorite free resources.I don't think one finds good beta readers, in the sense of a sort of pool where one can cast one's line and draw out a fine fish...
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skip.knox replied to the thread Received my first response from a publisher!.In what sense do you mean? As in, you've given up on traditional publishing, given up on any sort of publishing, or given up on writing...
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skip.knox replied to the thread Collaboration.Let there be an end of direct personal attacks and direct responses to those attacks. It's all ad hominem. Ironic, isn't it, that these...