If you base a character on an actual person and make it obvious you could be in trouble. If not, you're fine. It's as simple as that.
You're missing the point, which is all about division of responsibility, something inherent to any professional structure. I'm sure the boss would...
It sounds complex when I write it but literally, once you spend 10 minutes setting it up you never need go back to it. Schedule a backup task and...
Being an author is not 'like any other job', however. It's like some, but very few, and certainly not most. I can't believe you would be happy to...
If you're doing important work then you need to back up properly. And that means no USBs and no copying random files by hand (unless you have only...
Start with something interesting, whatever that may be. I normally read the first two pages of a novel before I buy it. If nothing interesting has...
I just despise the concept that a groundbreaking writer could submit work and be rejected not on the basis that they're not good at their craft,...
Next they'll be asking if the author minds popping round and making them tea, or doing a bit of filing around the office. If I am ever published I...
^ Yes, that
Not good: The creature threw back its head and cried, "Owowowwweeyowoyuwoywoerblah!" Better: The creature threw back its head and as if...
Remember too that professional authors need that speed or they go hungry. I bet that most if not all of the authors who stick to a schedule first...
He tends to write from third person. Actually, that's not true. I wrote it to be clever and funny but it was neither. I write from first person...
2,000 a day is monstrously fast. If you can achieve this and be pleased with the result then that's great. I think I average 500 - 1000 a day....
No, you should absolutely not ignore quality. The point about a first draft, IMO, is that you should spend your time writing new stuff and not...
China Mieville, IMO peerless when it comes to SF (or weird fiction as I believe he calls it). Even 'Kraken', which is rubbish plot-wise, should be...
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