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Sequel to Southwestern Wind should be ready.
Offering Sorrow should be ready by Sunday
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https://mypen.name/#generate-names
I find it weird that they all start sounding like Roger’s personas
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@BronxWench 4k word count is the smallest amount acceptable for individual chapters for quite a few publishers
So now I gotta
WML
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Well, suppose you could torture them with a brick by brick description, along with blueprints, see how long it lasts until they’re throwing stones…
I’ll second @BronxWench with her method, similar to how I do it. Describe the basics, leave the rest to their imagination, unless there’s something important, like a loose brick.
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“Any god that demands worship is by definition a tyrant”
going through my 1st year college stuff and its cringy
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jewish lore on this one is actually quite fascinating.
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@Strange_idea oh? Fill us in.
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The jewish people believe in debate. A LOT. To the point where there's an old joke that if god himself joined in a debate between priests, that'd only make the vote two to six.
They emphasize things like moses whittling the commandments down to ten (which is also in muslim tradition) and Abraham bargaining to find ten honest men (although some argue that's so that he can see for himself how futile it is). And in a famous story (have to track it doen, sorry), the rabbis actually beat god in a talbot debate and he celebrates his 'childrens' accomplishment.
To them, the relationship with god is a pact, one where he has to fullfill part himself. Theyve succesfully argued terms of worship a number of times, within reason because god needs to get something too. And yes, he asks for worship, but it's closer to a parent wanting to be in your life, if im understanding it righr. Does that make sense?
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writer question.
I heard an editor complain that people overuse “ “
i’m a bit confizzled how else are you supposed to inform the reader that talking/conversation is taking place?
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I think @GeorgeGlass has the right of it.
The only other thing I can think of, and I will admit it does annoy me, is when people put a word or phrase in quotations as a form of emphasis:
He seemed to think he was always going to be “the big man on campus” despite being the lowest producer on the team.And there’s the quote within conversation, which should be marked by ‘ ‘ rather than “ “ :
“So, he said the me, ‘I won’t eat that rubbish.’ Can you imagine the cheek?”-
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Is your editor Herr Starr?(edit - deleted link as no preview per forum rules but Google something like Herr Starr improper use of inverted commas to see an overreaction! )
Edit 2 – Found an imur link with preview! (NSFW due to languague, two pages from comic Preacher with discussion of inverted commas!)
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Writer Question
cause a personal project is reaching completion.
If you leave it on cliffhanger, Can/ should you have a epilogue and or put the stinger in the epilogue?
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I’m with @Desiderius Price on this. Do what you think will have the greatest “punch” and keep the readers invested for the next part.
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Do that thing where it turns out the remorseless hated evil they thought was destroyed suddenly appears again, like when I haven’t posted here for a hit then suddenly reply.
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@JayDee So pull a you? =p
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