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CCharlesEBrown reacted to Zagaroth's post in the thread What's your editing process? What do you focus on? with
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Yes; I got a response back from Podium and from 1 other publisher (amongst the several I contact), I approached an agent I knew from... -
CCharlesEBrown reacted to L1aei's post in the thread Favorite Crash-out moment(s) in novels you read with Like.
Recently? Kyoshi. Specifically teenage Kyoshi in the novels. I don't know if you've watched the animated Avatar series, but there are...
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CCharlesEBrown reacted to Xeoz's post in the thread Can someone review my story (don't hold back) with Like.
Just read a lot. Start small, read light novels, Korean novels. Those novels are easy to read imo, then slowly transition to western...
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CCharlesEBrown reacted to Nekyo's post in the thread What kind of music do you usually listen to when you’re writing something? with Like.
Deep focus dark music. Or piano, orchestral, symphonic, orchestral versions of OSTs that I love from anime and games, Dark Souls...
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CCharlesEBrown replied to the thread Do You Outline the Characters or do you do the characters and the story?.Never gone that far with the planning. Have a tab of "characters" where I record anyone I expect to use again later whenever I think to...
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CCharlesEBrown reacted to MakBow's post in the thread Do You Outline the Characters or do you do the characters and the story? with Like.
This is something I want to know since I'm curious how other authors do it. How do you keep track of all of your characters and story...
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CCharlesEBrown reacted to writerwolf359's post in the thread Do You Outline the Characters or do you do the characters and the story? with Like.
How I do outlines: 1) Write a rough outline for the story. 2) Start writing the story. 3) Throw out the outline. I do maintain a set of...
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CCharlesEBrown reacted to PancakesWitch's post in the thread What's your editing process? What do you focus on? with Like.
Podium doesnt advertise their stories, so I wouldn't recommend it, 99% of what they publish gets no sales at all. Try to go for...
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CCharlesEBrown replied to the thread Annoyances with physical books.Don't look at Wheel of Time (either 12 or 14 volumes - I stopped at either 9 or 10 myself) or Sword of Truth (read four, believe there...
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CCharlesEBrown replied to the thread Managing Multiple WIPs.When I had time to write regularly, once I had at least 10 chapters in a story, I posted the first two here (or elsewhere, depending on...
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CCharlesEBrown reacted to Juia_Darkcrest's post in the thread Writing What system of units do you use in your fiction? with Like.
Heh, So my MC uses imperial units, while the gods use metric, which confuses my MC.
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CCharlesEBrown reacted to Representing_Tromba's post in the thread Writing What system of units do you use in your fiction? with Like.
My MC is British so he uses mostly Metric but since it the 1880s everyone else uses Imperial with the exception of a few.
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CCharlesEBrown reacted to Zagaroth's post in the thread How long do you take to write your novel? with Like.
I'm averaging about 275k words a year (I am a little past the three year mark and have 900K words written). That's a bit over 2 large...
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CCharlesEBrown reacted to Zagaroth's post in the thread What's your editing process? What do you focus on? with Like.
I write on Libre Office. Nice simple word processor and spell checker. My first edit pass is when pasting it on to Royal Road, which I...
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CCharlesEBrown reacted to JayMark's post in the thread What's your editing process? What do you focus on? with Like.
I do all my own editing. I read the entire Harbrace handbook to get a better understanding of English Grammar and use what I learnedto...