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    Titling a Book

    Definitely not the tiger's song, unless your tiger can sing... I'm still iffy about using the word song in a title, though it seems I am in the minority. Something about claiming a novel as a song -even when Martin did it- doesn't sit right with me, but each to their own. I'll still read it if...
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    Titling a Book

    Just a heads up. If you haven't finished writing it, then there'll still be a s**t-ton of editing needs doing before you send it off. If I misunderstood then please ignore. I personally wouldn't use any title with the word shadow in it as it's been done to death, though I've heard you're...
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    Breast feeding off a corpse...

    Sorry for the morbid subject matter, but I was just wondering if a babe can still suckle if the mother died during childbirth, thus allowing time to find a new midwife/agreeable goat. The scene takes place out in the woods so it will be a while before a suitable donor can be found for the little...
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    The old exploding head

    Guess the savages will have to rethink their barbaric ways... Just to be clear, such a bomb would not explode without being 100% sealed? Camradio, that was my way of thinking. I was planning for these savages to get all Egyptian via the spinal column hole after wrenching the skull free, then...
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    The old exploding head

    Enough with the bloody pottery!!! Capable as my savages might be at throwing vases at each other, it's just not their thing. They're in the middle of a desperate war against their oppressors and there are plenty of heads lying around to stick in their catapults or fling from their ballista. I...
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    The old exploding head

    I'm trying for a 'savage' race, in a very stereotypical sense of the word. Pottery or wood just don't send the same message, and would take quite a bit of preparation. I'm thinking more: Brief respite in battle, time to cut off a few heads and shove inside some powder sacks, then fling them back...
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    The old exploding head

    A race of savages in my WIP have come by some black powder (have yet to think up an uncliched name for it), though are yet to learn the art metal work, where as the rest of the world has discovered metal smelting but not 'exploding dust'. Thus, it only made sense that they would decapitate...
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    Opinion on 'said'

    Zero Angel makes a good point, there are times showing just clutters things up. Far as adverbs go. Most 'pros' through the centuries use them, so why not us wannabes. We are nothing if not conformists, putting our own colorful spins on an older fellow's ideas, so to pretend we suddenly saw the...
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    Fonts for Ebook Cover

    Thanks, though that happens to be a good example of the copy-write issues. The font is only free for 'personal use', I imagine if you were to use it on a novel cover (thus make money from it) you'd be ripe for a potential suing.
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    Fonts for Ebook Cover

    There's thousands out there, though a lot have frustrating copy-write clauses. Try googling free fonts, there are many sites that will let you type in your title to see the exact possibilities. As an aside, if anyone knows a good font for a bloody scrawl across a stone wall let me know. I'm...
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    Harper Voyager / HarperCollins Taking Unagented Manuscripts

    Submitted yesterday, despite all the naysayers. And yes, if they're desperate enough to offer me a contract then I'll read the thing before signing. Submitting doesn't lock you in to anything, so hopefully you other scribes weren't scared off by all the legal mumbo jumbo. (Not that I'm not...
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    Need help with phrasing a beat

    He took a deep, dramatic breath and invited her to do the same with a pair of raised eyebrows and a disarming smile.
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    Is it okay to turn the camera on the POV character in 3rd Person limited?

    Seems like cheating to me. If POV is limited, keep it limited. Turning camera on POV jerks the reader out of his head, to do this simply to convey emotion might be seen as lazy writing. Why risk it on something easy to change? He raised his eyebrows... Realized he must be staring... etc.
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    Harper Voyager / HarperCollins Taking Unagented Manuscripts

    Kevin, thanks for the warnings. It's all stuff I considered (except the 'controlling your writing for life' bit, that does seem a little alarmist) though none of it's a deal breaker in my opinion. -Don't want an advance. I'd rather make money (or not) on sales and hopefully get a better...
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    Harper Voyager / HarperCollins Taking Unagented Manuscripts

    Anyone planning on submitting? Seems fortuitous that I happen to be finishing the final spit and polish as the 'window of opportunity' approaches. Coincidence or fate, I might just have to try my luck alongside the million others. Downsides I foresee. -Mainly ebooks, though they hint at a...
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