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> hate flashbacks Not all readers. Banks's Use of Weapons has an ABABAB format, and is more readable for it. Takeaway is to have decent test readers.

> "The Death of the Author" (French: La mort de l'auteur) is a 1967 essay by the French literary critic and theorist Roland Barthes (1915–1980). Barthes' essay argues against traditional literary criticism's practice of relying on the intentions and biography of an author to definitively explain...

> so when an Aussie talks about drop bears, know he's not taking the piss out of you. If an aussie mentions seeing one personally, kill them before they go back in time and fuck up the timeline further. We had enough trouble before the planet started randomly heating up, and some wag was...

> TANJ (From Larry Niven's books - means "There Ain't No Justice") or TANSTAFAL ("There Ain't No Such Thing As a Free Lunch" from Heinlein IIRC) These never worked for me. Even before we get into Heinlein's persistent pontification problem and Niven's misogyny issues.

Ucking-fay, el-hay.

Crosspost to Ao3

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I bounced off his Mistborn book, I think I felt at the time he overexplained things and relied too hard on having a system and a mechanism. But these days I read litRPGs and Stray Cat fanfic. Hambly's fun because some of her wizards are natural philosophers. Without being tedious about it...

> Maybe I should try soft magic systems instead… Quickly read Barbara Hambly's Silent Tower series!

> any tips on beginning to write and start it? Look up the index card approach?

Agreed. There were still many German nationalist with grievances piled up, and who wanted power and the chance to fuck over members of the out-group like jews, queers, roma. Plus there was apparently a fear that the communists would take over?

I think you are trying to maximize the wrong metric.

That's just a girth issue, not the key mechanism. --- > wrists, backs Best to go quickly to a real world physiotherapist when these things come up. If you cannot, or will not: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8l32k1r15l78A_w6mg8Scw5umPHccOIn...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Norse_orthography https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runes#Runic_alphabets

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Isn't that just fiction?

There was a quizshow competition club manga.

Pet peeve: any apologies for the writer's skill level or discussion of personal circumstances or publishing schedule. If that's appended to the summary I impulsively discount the work. Beyond that, new author apologies and circumstances should go at the bottom of new chapters, not at the top...