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TThinkerX replied to the thread An echo of a silent hello.Hello! You write, and you learn. Your first draft will almost certainly seem horrible...as you are writing it. Don't stop. Push on...
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TThinkerX replied to the thread Advise on handling name changes.Glen Cook put it best: 'Gods have more names than a two-hundred-year-old con artist.' In real-world mythology, the names and functions...
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TThinkerX replied to the thread Using short stories to market a longer work.One of my pet projects at Mythic Scribes is reading and reviewing a book or three by our published authors. I might as well add yours to...
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TThinkerX replied to the thread Using short stories to market a longer work.Of the four books I published last year, one was a linked-together 'spicy' anthology ('Empire: Southern Heat'), and two others were...
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TThinkerX replied to the thread marketing for self published book.Both. I released 'Labyrinth Journal' a week ago, and am continuing to line up promo sites. One of these promo sites gets its first shot...
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TThinkerX replied to the thread marketing for self published book.That gets into the other part. 1 - Reviews matter. Getting reviews - especially for an indie author - is a pain. I tried all sorts of...
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TThinkerX replied to the thread marketing for self published book.I regard Amazon and FB ads as overpriced. Before the scammers took over, I had modest marketing success with ordinary posts to FB book...
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TThinkerX replied to the thread marketing for self published book.Here. This thread details my marketing misadventures. Read the last few pages...
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TThinkerX replied to the thread The Flood: Introducing my World.To recap: 1 - An ancient tyrant attempted a dangerous ritual to become immortal via the theft of life energy. 2 - Instead, this...
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TThinkerX replied to the thread Magic systems please!.The 'magic' in my worlds is 'enhanced PSI ability' genetically imbued into favored humans and select members of other races thousands of...
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TThinkerX replied to the thread 11 dimensional spacetime multiverse with Demiurge.This used to come up in an Astrophysics subforum I used to embarrass myself in. Put bluntly, there is no way to tell if other universes...
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TThinkerX replied to the thread How far do you go with worldbuilding?.The capsule version of my writing history.
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I worldbuild as a hobby, it's fun to me. I have quite large swathes of worldbuilding details that will probably never see the light of... -
TThinkerX replied to the thread How many books have you read?.I'll take a stab at the numbers this time. 5-6 books a week = 260-312 books a year x 50 years = 13,000-15,600 books up until 2024 (ages...