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Comment on What You Feel by ellaquinnauthor

ellaquinnauthor — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 02:37:32 +0000

I understand what you’re saying. There are times when the writing is wonderful and witty and then you have to cut the scene.

Comment on What You Feel by SD Writer

SD Writer — Thu, 31 May 2012 15:21:13 +0000

There’s value in all writing — even if it’s just to show what you were like at that point in time.

Comment on What You Feel by Mark Louis Baumgart

Mark Louis Baumgart — Thu, 31 May 2012 11:01:09 +0000

And then there are the times when you write something that you think is so golden, and/or so witty, that it should be engraved on marble tablets and handed out to the populace to be mandatory reading, only to go back and read it later and go “OMG I wrote that?!? I am so embarassed! I need to change my name. NOW!”.

Comment on POV — What Readers Don’t Notice (Unless it’s Wrong) by A Naked Point Of View « The Write Transition

A Naked Point Of View « The Write Transition — Tue, 29 May 2012 12:34:33 +0000

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Comment on Regency Travel: Cary’s New Itinerary by Lynda R. Young

Lynda R. Young — Fri, 25 May 2012 03:04:50 +0000

Wow, Cary’s sounds like a fabulous resource!!

Comment on Joan Vincent Guest Blogger – Honour’s Debt by Shyam

Shyam — Thu, 24 May 2012 06:38:52 +0000

What a fantastic and inipriatsonal story. Your advice came at just the right time! I can soooo relate to rewriting a beginning countless times, and getting loads of requests for fulls and partials, but no offers. I’m going to follow your advice and start pitching my new book instead of focusing on my first. Thank you so much!!!(And I hope you’ll be ineligible for GH soon!)

Comment on POV — What Readers Don’t Notice (Unless it’s Wrong) by Melissa Maygrove

Melissa Maygrove — Mon, 21 May 2012 13:38:41 +0000

Very well said. Great post.

Comment on Clichés: Easy as Pie by SD Writer

SD Writer — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 13:37:41 +0000

The elaborate “kill the hero” plans are always a hoot–nothing like indirect action to get something done.

Comment on Clichés: Easy as Pie by Mark Louis Baumgart

Mark Louis Baumgart — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 22:57:54 +0000

“Bad guy has to explain all his reasons for his actions.” Yeah, this is called infodumping, and we see this a lot more with the heroes. Especially in science fiction and mysteries. In science fiction there is always somebody, and sometimes its just the writer/narrator, who seems to take too much space to explan every single scientific detail in EXTREME detail, and in mysteries there’s always the time when somebody seems to HAVE to recapitulate the novel’s plot just to explain the story’s dénouement.

“Kidnapped heroine.”: Oddly enough the best skewering of this cliche happened in an old Sherlock Holmes movie with Basil Rathbone, in which he was kidnapped by Prof. Moriarity. The Prof was going to kill Holmes, and Holmes, disappointed in the pedestrian treatment of his death, talks Moriarity INTO trying to kill Holmes in some ridiculously convoluted way.

Comment on Interactive Work by SD Writer

SD Writer — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 21:11:41 +0000

Glad you liked the book. And any help with the French is greatly appreciated.