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You are so lucky to have found such a good one! You poor lamb! -- Post in the Author's Notes of your story that you're looking for Beta-Readers. Someone, probably several someones, will respond. Then send them the questionnaire! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Your intelligence is showing. ☕ I never fight my...

Why would you even associate with someone that doesn't read?! >0.o< ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ You are trying to get me to start a riot on my own threads. You're not even pretending now! ? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ROFLMAO...! -- I kind of want to know myself. You're welcome. I'm glad you liked it enough to...

Most spouses/lovers are. Even worse, spouses/lovers rarely read their spouse's genre of work. I can't tell you how many authors I know whose spouse/lover straight-up refused to read any of that author's work! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Most people looking for beta-readers already have work either...

Testing your Story's Popularity Potential! Beta-Readers So, you wanna know if your story has what it takes to thrill and interest your readers? Believe it or not, this is easier to do than you might think. What you need is a Beta-Test. BEFORE you post that fantastic fic on a story site, before...

You know... I think I do have a tutorial on writing synopsis buried in there somewhere. I'm going to have to hunt for it because it's not something I've ever posted publicly. Made it for a fiction workshop I ran. The problem with writing a Synopsis is that what's needed in them changes...

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Journalistic style? Perfectly understandable. It's what you know. OokamiKasumi said: Stories in English should not written like essays or news reports; written in a passive voice or from an objective viewpoint. Stories should make the reader experience what is happening...

Very well then... Believe it or not, and for some reason many people don't, ALL publishers regard/evaluate a novel by what's posted on their Submission Guidelines. All publishers have a website and Google.com is your friend. DAW (Penguin Books) Tor Books Tor is closed for submissions at...

Are you...encouraging me to start a riot? On my own threads?!

That's perfectly fine. -- Um... I tried to message you but couldn't. I was...still writing the post when you replied...? So there's more?

On: I originally planned to put 'began' in, but it took too much room on the stamp, and the stamp was already oversized. I should hope so! After all, a story is not limited to the size of a stamp. Cringe... Well, if that's the way you want to write your stories...? However, I would strongly...

That --writing fight scenes/action scenes-- I can help with! It's even controversial! -- Before one can write any action scene, one must arrange the words in one's sentences so that they read: Action THEN Reaction. This begins by removing the word "as".

Me too! ? Yes it can, most definitely. The trick is to have enough description to allow the reader to imagine what's happening clearly, and not dump it all in one massive chunk. Description needs to be broken up between events happening, character actions, dialogue, and internal commentary by...

You get Beta-Readers from your Fans. -- In the author's note of your stories, tell your fans that you're looking for Beta-readers and have them message you privately. The ones that really like your work will respond -- eagerly. You want at least two of them; one male, one female, but more is...

Japanese 'lite novel' fiction doesn't do description the way English does. Japanese lite novels describe by way of using direct nouns: "the school uniform," and comparison; "the color of a peony at twilight." It's not that the vocabulary isn't there, Japanese Literary novels do indeed have...

There are several factors: -- Male readers are generally perfectly fine with using their imaginations to 'fill in the blanks' of a sex scene. -- Certain individuals of the reading audience haven't read enough well-written smut to know good writing from bad yet. -- Certain fantasies...

I'm glad you liked the examples. The original essay was written for someone particularly stubborn about several writing issues. The obvious issue addressed was that she wrote reams, and reams, and reams of dialogue...and not much else. Yet, she near constantly complained that her scenes were...

Me too. Pass the popcorn. This probably won't be as dramatic as the previous one, but I wouldn't put it past them to ramp up the drama on a random comment -- just because. Well, I have no idea what people actually want to know, so I decided to address one of the...issues I've been seeing on...

----- Original Message ----- If you have Action and Dialogue, do you really NEED Description too? What is the difference? -- Likes to write Action -- YES...! Yes, you do need description in your fiction! Let me show you... The Layers of Fiction DISCLAIMER: As with all advice, take what you...

If a character is interacting with the background they are in, then that background should be part of that character's paragraph. Example: from Death & the Maiden Still dressed in her school uniform; a burgundy turtleneck dress with a mauve sailor-styled short jacket, Michiru Kita strode...

Probably less than that. I'd say one out of every other class. Colleges generally teach Creative writing, not Fiction writing. -- There are a few colleges that do teach proper fiction writing with actual published fiction authors teaching it. However, the bulk of most writing classes offered in...