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  1. Tcr

    Why do you write?

    Might be a little late... Sounds like my usual, but… Star Trek kind of started it for me. I started originals and loved the process and creativity in school and used that to get out of the bad situation. They were mostly vicious shorts, blood she'd and violence galore... (Has anything really changed?... ...) Then I started writing in the Star Trek universe for a little, expanded outward from shorts into novels... Which in turn became originals again... (A full circle, weird and crazy, but yeah...) Sci Fi has always been a part of my writing, I've just expanded out… And I ramble on...
    3 points
  2. Hmm… Y’all think a character turning into a zombie counts as character-death tag worthy?
    2 points
  3. Well, confidence matters to me because I think a lot of people already have decent summaries that successfully communicate to the reader what their story is about, but their self-doubt gets in the way. Or ‘successfully communicates’ isn’t good enough, they want their summaries to be awesome, to whet the readers’ appetites. Which is a totally legit desire. So that doubt becomes the problem a lot of the time more than the summary itself is. Or the ambition to get better gives them/us the motivation to learn more about techniques or learn more about their readers.
    2 points
  4. Given the time/effort/reward involved, few are in writing for the money. And those who do, they’re the lucky few that effectively won the lottery, are now screenwriters or best sellers.
    2 points
  5. From dictionary corner today via Twitter: Confelicity: a much-underused word meaning delight in someone else's happiness; the opposite of Schadenfreude.
    2 points
  6. InvidiaRed

    Naming places

    Huzzah! Behold Infernal Bob of Twincest – Anti Bob
    2 points
  7. Bob Prime goes into the jungle and becomes Amazon Prime.
    1 point
  8. InvidiaRed

    Naming places

    Possibly if Bob Prime and Anti-Bob meet it could usher in a World Without Bob.
    1 point
  9. What’s right? What’s wrong? It probably depends on the intended audience, to some degree. If there was a precise science to it, I’d have licked this ages ago, instead, I find it to be rather...fuzzy. (No, I do not mean a fetish there)
    1 point
  10. to me it just comes down to how the summary feels, how ever long you make it, confidence i dont think matters in that respect, either you have the right summary or you dont. did it give you enough of a tease to get people interested? did it give enough of a description of the general plot? did it communicate enough of a struggle for the characters? will there be pizza at some point?
    1 point
  11. Like most things, requires practice, and don’t be afraid to revise it! Still not great at it, most of the time I muddle through it, because something is typically better than nothing.
    1 point
  12. So, if anti-Bob and Bob meet, it’s a big bang? (Thinking antimatter/matter)
    1 point
  13. InvidiaRed

    Why do you write?

    Hahaha. He shall be named Bob 676 Aka Infernal Bob
    1 point
  14. I hereby banish Bob to the other thread! Fred/George, things can be better in pairs.
    1 point
  15. lol definitely not alone. I’m sure there are writers out there who are 100% confident in their summary skills, but I have yet to meet one.
    1 point
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