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A while back I said I was going to write some fairy tales in the old school style, and I'm still working on that. A little sidetracked though. However, I have written a folk tale in the same manner of which I said I would write a fairy tale. If anyone is interested, give it a read and let me...

Yes, I wrote one, and it reads like a folk tale, not like your average piece of fiction here. More specifically, it reads like a story from oral tradition, like something out of the One Thousand and One Arabian Nights. The length of this story is about thirty pages, but because of the writing...

Typically for trad publishing they will want to retain all the copyrights for a long period of time. If that's a porblem, I'd try to negotiate for a quick release of copyright to revert back to you so you can own the book again.

That's cool. On the publishing thing, are they asking for any money from you?

The feel of "thrill"!

What in the world?

I like your thoughts. I've never thought this though. In fact, I don't want my characters to die at the end. It's never happened before. But... with Oni Rokura, it might just happen. I haven't finished the series, and in fact, I've just left it hanging on a cliffhanger, no real ending, I just...

If we're talking covers, you get can microstock pretty cheap for like $0.50 a pop if you're willing to fuss with your own fonts and such. I do all my own covers this way. Some of them turn out pretty cool.

The more importance you place over writing the book, the worse its going to get. You just have to understand that your book is not important, that you can write another one later, that the reactions of other people reading it are also not important. I treat writing like a joke, or something I'm...

I get you, and I think one of the best things is to read quality books on writing, watch some of the good Master Classes on the topic. Brandon Sanderson's creative writing lectures on youtube are pretty darn good. Jim Butcher's Live Journal is excellent. It's the internet, people give all kinds...

Oh, it's much harder than that, because when you do get criticism, how do you parse good critique from bad advice? I mean, storytelling is art after all, right? Isn't it subjective? Why take anyone's advice at all? Is the criticism on the mode by which you tell the story, or on your storytelling...

Leave those incomprehensible black marks alone!

Hey! Do it! Which one of those classic writers wrote a book as a single sentence? I forget his name.

Nothing wrong with that at all, actually. Holy crap, are you ripping off my story? lol

Mine was not bad, but there are a lot of reasons for that. I was twenty-three when I wrote it, but I was also too scared to write at the beginning, so I spent a year reading fantasy novels and books on writing. I would interchange them; read one book on writing, if it was short, then two, and...

Noice. I hit a million about four or five months ago. How many stories do you have?

Third person, but I'm not against first person, either. I like how Jonathan Maberry does it. The main character is in first person while the rest are in third. I'm writing a space opera like that right now. Though lately, I'm really into third person omniscient. I love hopping heads.

Are you truly writing a "short story"? That's between 1,000 words and 7,500 words. I don't really like short stories, but there is something cool about them. Pick a moment to show, and imply the beginning and the ending. You could potentially imply a novel's worth of content in the beginning...

Lol. Don't get mad. Is it Word or your PC? Scrivener is pretty good, and cheap. Or you can use google docs. With Google docs you don't have to worry about a hard drive failure since it's backed up to the cloud. Personally I've always loved the idea of the old pen and paper method, but I don't...

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