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  • Queshire
    Queshire replied to the thread Theme vs Preaching.
    Is that a bad thing? 0_o EDIT: Haven't actually had a chance to watch the video at the time of typing this. Waiting to use it as...
  • JBCrowson
    JBCrowson replied to the thread Theme vs Preaching.
    Navel gazing your writing in a spongy place - are you writing in the bath again? FWIW (the square root of zero) I think post modern...
  • JBCrowson
    My take is that they (beat sheets) are neither inherently good or bad, but like all tools developed to help writers, they do not suit...
  • Fyri
    Fyri updated their status.
    There's no way the last time I made a status update was 2 years ago when I was on draft 8. How have I made 4 new drafts since then??
  • Incanus
    For me, learning and applying structure helped quite a lot. I don’t think I could have completed my rough draft (what I call a...
  • Esraa_Saeed
    Esraa_Saeed replied to the thread Creation of Arda.
    Ki is not human, but will itself cannot remain idle. Creation was not mercy — it was inevitability...
  • Esraa_Saeed
    Esraa_Saeed replied to the thread Creation of Arda.
    continuation: She did not hunt to survive. She devoured to erase. Serima mimicked the forms of other creatures, luring them into...
  • A. E. Lowan
    A. E. Lowan replied to the thread Theme vs Preaching.
    I'm not highlighting because I agree with all of this. There's such a long tradition of only considering fiction to be 'legitimate' if...
  • M
    I'm getting into Arabic literature for this purpose. Also, history is much more unbelievable than actual fantasy, and much of Arabic...
  • A. E. Lowan
    A. E. Lowan replied to the thread Too Many files!.
    We keep everything in Word and OneNote, and I strongly prefer to draft with one chapter per Word file, one folder per draft. That way...
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  • Mad Swede
    Mad Swede replied to the thread Theme vs Preaching.
    I guess the real message she is trying to convey is that to convey the theme (or themes) in a work they need to be developed and all...
  • M
    This sums up my thoughts on the matter after thinking about it. I'll just keep them in mind while analyzing what I read, and then apply...
  • pmmg
    Just thinking back, but I would not mind having my first Fellowship of the Ring, or Avatar experience again. Once seen, you cannot...
  • Fyri
    Fyri replied to the thread Query Managers.
    Most agents are migrating to QueryManager, which is just an organization system for them to manage queries in one place, all put into...
  • Karlin
    the original 1960's Little Shop of Horrors!
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