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12K words left and my wordsmithing is nearing its end

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Lemme proofread… “12M words left” right?
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Hahaha.
No, 8k left since I essentially had to rewrite the entire novel almost from the ground up. So find another editor
getting nervous tho. What if everybody hates it? ugh..
How do you fellow writers deal with the nerves?
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QuoteHow do you fellow writers deal with the nerves?
Close my eyes before I hit the post button.
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I feel like there is a whole untapped subgenre of what happens when a zombie apocalypse gets worse.
*Werewolf howls*
or demons escaping hell or vampires going crazy as they try to find the last living humans before they go totally feral.
or even suddenly it goes disaster movie.
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@GeorgeGlass Max Brooks*’ short story The Extinction Parade and the comic miniseries adaption pretty much matches that.
*The World War Z guy.
Edit – https://www.amazon.com/Max-Brooks-Extinction-Parade-1/dp/1592912346
“As humans wage their losing fight versus the hoards of the subdead, a frightening realization sets in with the secretive vampire race: our food is dying off. This is the story of the vampire's descent into all-out war with the mindless, hungry hordes of the zombie outbreak as humanity tries to survive them all! “
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Suddenly, the thought came to my head… “The Zombie Dating GAME SHOW!” I must be very disturbed.
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I kinda want to write a zombie apoclypse that happens during a dating game show. hahaha
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Writer question
Pen names are confusing af like you have to copyright it?
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IANAL, however, I think trademark applies to pen names.
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I never copyrighted my pen name, actually, but no one else has had the urge to use it as far as I know.
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Google search later, pen names may be trademark-protected, but aren’t copyright-protected. Though, more practically, I think other writers (& lawyers) may gang up on somebody poaching another’s name.
A scorched-earth option, make your writing sufficiently notorious so nobody dares to be associated with it.
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A grouping of humans is called a tribe
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And a grouping of crows is murder.
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A grouping of raven is an unkindness- I love how the naming are so amazing.
Bears- Sleuthe
Tigers- Streak
Hippos- Pod
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Heads up Offering Sorrow
is a dark antagonist’s POVs.
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Aw, a more clear-cut evil for the sake of evil? Most of my original fiction “antagonists” could be written as protagonists if you switched POVs – ie, they think they’re protecting society from the evils my typical main characters “represent”.
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Sometimes you don’t need a complex motivation other than
I’m going to destroy everything!- Angra Mainyu
Angrboda’s primary motivation is family. She genuinely loves her children Fenrir, Hel and Jormungander and wants them safe on earth is understandable. Wanting to avenge her own murder is too, Conspiring to get humanity to nuke Asgard less so.
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True, sometimes it simply takes a divorce to bring out the worst in people. Have fun writing whatever the heck you want to write!
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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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