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skip.knox replied to the thread Months and Calendar.It's fine to invent names of months or whatever else. What's not fine is to invent reasons to use them. To put it another way, I use... -
skip.knox replied to the thread Hello, a day later!.Welcome to the Scribes, and congrats on completing the first draft of your novel. That's major in itself.
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skip.knox replied to the thread My writing style, right for me, or too 'distracted' ?.>As of now, no finished stories, OK, so what I said above applies; that is, don't sweat the methodology too much at this point...
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skip.knox replied to the thread My writing style, right for me, or too 'distracted' ?.Have you finished any story? That is, all the way to either self-publishing or submitting the story to an agent or magazine? If the...
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skip.knox reacted to Mad Swede's post in the thread My writing style, right for me, or too 'distracted' ? with
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This is not really about how many stories you have on the go at the same time. It is about your writing discipline, because it is this... -
skip.knox reacted to Demesnedenoir's post in the thread Got told AI did a better job than me. with Like.
AI might "write better" and sure as hell will write faster, but it won't write the same story you will. It writes good copy and flashy...
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skip.knox replied to the thread How far do you go with worldbuilding?.Most stories start with an idea, right? An idea for a character, a world, a plot, but pretty much nobody thinks up all that in one...
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skip.knox replied to the thread What does the phrase 'they blue screened' mean to you?.The phrase makes me think of a rather old version of Windows. Macintoshes don't blue screen. Linux doesn't blue screen. The reference is...
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skip.knox replied to the thread Guidelines for Discussing Religion.Yes, that was a misunderstanding. Feel free to discuss; folks will let you know if there's anything amiss.
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skip.knox reacted to Prince of Spires's post in the thread Hey so our production team talked about this... with Like.
Just to get the definitions out of the way: a publisher is the company who owns the rights to distribute your book. If you indie...
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I've worked with two editors. The first one was not the match I was hoping for, the second went line by line and gave me a lot of work...
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skip.knox replied to the thread Guidelines for Discussing Religion.I don't see an invitation to discuss, nor do I see a question. But the statements as they stand seem fine. If you want to solicit...
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skip.knox replied to the thread Hello friends! Critique swap?.But if you're looking for a swap on a full, completed novel, you'd do better to ask for beta readers. Critiques are more for scenes or a...
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skip.knox replied to the thread Guidelines for Discussing Religion.>is it ok to discuss fictional religions in the context of my writing. Impossible to say without knowing more. Why do you want to...
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skip.knox replied to the thread How do we know when its finished?.It has helped me to think of revision as consisting of separate but related tasks. Improvement is one, but even that can be broken down...