I once caught a fish this big. Spreads arms wider than anyone can see. Great idea for a thread and my greatest respect to the OP, and most of...
I designate time zones. Now is forum time, which I loosely bundle in with 'research'. In an hour or so I'll be revising what I wrote yesterday for...
That's not luck, that's the writer not doing his or her research, ergo caring enough to write a good query letter. No luck there, just a lack of...
Agree totally, but, you know, here we are. Just trying to be as helpful as we can be.
Perhaps the problem is comparing the incomparable? Music and literature have different shelf-lives, as do authors. For one, authors tend to get...
Nicely put, Van Helmsing. Dracula is one of my favourite all-time reads. After it, I'm not certain why anyone else bothered, to tell you the truth.
Yes, you could be right about it being the wrong question. It's too general. With a question that broad, so too is the advice. If you're an IT...
I agree with most of what's been said only not entirely with the notion that being published or not is 'random' or 'luck'. I know a lot of...
It's not original, but pretty much no stories are. As described by crucifiction and mammamaia in greater detail above, ideas are nothing; write...
Summing up, some good advice in this thread from other members that, like that of the writers you're lambasting, you're dismissing out of hand....
I like smart, complex, highly lean and economical, intelligent plots that do take 150 pages of outline to truly nail. Simple plots are also...
Personality traits I plan before writing - AFTER plotting the whole story out. Anecdotal character stuff never makes it in; that's another story,...
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