Recent content by skip.knox

Do you mean get noticed on Wattpad or get your work noticed more generally? It's somewhere between devilishly difficult and even more difficult. But you coudl enter a search string like "how do I get my book noticed on wattpad" and the range of answers will give you a notion of the difficulty.

Redditors are human beings. Some will be snarky and some will be helpful. As with other gatherings of humans, the ratio will vary with time and circumstance. Because we have to deal with human beings regularly, it's best to develop both filters and a thick skin.

Your website has more than the tropes page. I don't get the preference, but to return to the original post: Linking to an author website is the common and recommended practice.

I thought you meant it was *your* TV Tropes page. If it isn't your page, then it doesn't belong in your sig.

I would not call either example purple. The second example is hackneyed. The twist could surely be better described. To be purple it would need to pile on a few more adjectives, preferably as superlatives. The first example is just awkward. Finality and precariousness don't really go together...

I'm not sure it's a rule, but it's certainly a guideline. I agree with pmmg. But something seems odd here. You want to link to tvtropes.org because you are quite proud of that page, but in your sig you say that page is not very good. Why not just switch the one link for the other?

There is a vast fantasy literature sent in the Victorian era. Nearly as much set in Tudor times, with another large helping set in early modern Scotland. There is, for this reader, entirely too much set in the British Isles and far too little set elsewhere on the Continent. Other continents have...

Well, faulty memory. I pulled the map and it's 1360. Not a whole lot going on, except a pause in the 100 Years War. Europe was just starting to claw its way back from the Black Death of 1347-1352, but there's another round coming in 1362. The map is a Denoyer-Geppert. That company made tons of...

I've read Stonelands. The research was definitely worth the time and money! ... I'm trying to make a joke that would involve wings but I'm too dang tired.

All problems are absurd right up until you solve them. Some people do start with the map. I wish them well; they go by paths I cannot follow.

First, keep in mind that what is familiar to one reader may not be to another. There is no way for you to know what are the expectations of your readers, nor what is their current understanding of ... well, of just about anything. Which leads to Second. Second, sell it to yourself. You can't...

You did say website. I don't think there's anything for e-books, but for html I entered this as a search string: a widget or embed that supports zoom and click and drag and got at least a number of hits. It would be up to you to see if any are usable by you.

>Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one. Too facile for my taste. Seems to me all stories require imagination, both to create them and to read them. Moreover, and worse, is the second clause, because it's dismissive of others without being very explicit about who those others...

One reason (of many) I don't develop as much as I might as a writer is exactly because each new story is a new working experience. I do learn lessons from the past, it's just that many of them aren't applicable to the next book. My very first story, a short story, began with an image and not...

First, thanks for the replies, I do appreciate folks taking the time to share. I have loads of maps--historical maps. Thirty years of teaching medieval history. I still have a wall map, the kind we used to hang at the front of class, of Europe in 1384. Just kept around for sentiment not for...