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The Dark One replied to the thread Fiction vs realistic.I should add, I never referred to her as a druid (quite deliberately). He made his own connection. -
The Dark One replied to the thread Fiction vs realistic.As I've said before, I don't write fantasy but I do write historical and speculative fiction. Even one of my crime novels has a decent...
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The Dark One replied to the thread Scam e-mails.I doubt whether a legit film rights buyer would give up easily. And the reality is, most (not all, I grant you) writers whose books are...
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The Dark One replied to the thread Scam e-mails.If you get an email you weren't expecting regarding your work... No matter how exciting, 999 times out of a thousand, it's a scam.
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The Dark One replied to the thread Despite a few delays....Well done MS. It's always exciting having a new book on the shelves and that's a very decent print run. My biggest was 5k (and there...
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The Dark One replied to the thread Scam e-mails.I get heaps of scam emails - mainly about wanting to help me market my work. I always delete immediately. A writer friend stupidly got...
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The Dark One replied to the thread When does 'sarcasm' become 'just being an ass' ?.When does sarcasm become just being an arse? When it's not funny.
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The Dark One replied to the thread "If you have to stop and google it, don't include it." ?.Never forget that it is part of a writer's duty (I believe) to be educative. Where else do we learn new words but in books. Unless...
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The Dark One reacted to Mad Swede's post in the thread "If you have to stop and google it, don't include it." ? with
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This is all about context. Context in terms of the setting, the characters and the story arc. If it is appropriate for your characters... -
The Dark One replied to the thread So about language-isms not in your native language?.I don't think there was anything in MS's post regarding your intelligence. It was simply a caution against relying on youtube for fast...
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The Dark One replied to the thread So about language-isms not in your native language?.I tend to agree with MS quite a lot, I've noticed, though I probably would have found a way to say the above a little less...
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The Dark One reacted to Mad Swede's post in the thread So about language-isms not in your native language? with Like.
I've been trying to think how to write this diplomatically. And I've given up. You do not read anything like enough. Watching a bunch...
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The Dark One replied to the thread Where did the moon come from?.And you're missing my point that getting a name from any machine or any sort of prepared list is not invention. At the very least it's...
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The Dark One replied to the thread So about language-isms not in your native language?.I do it a lot but I have read very extensively in the relevant cultures and have visited the relevant countries with my ears very much...
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The Dark One replied to the thread Where did the moon come from?.Pretty sure if I'd published a story with a character called Arklblargh that I'd be pissed off if someone scraped with AI and used it...