BronxWench
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Well, that was interesting… nothing like a good thunderstorm to clear the air...
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Can I put in an order for one of those when I come to visit, please? I just love thunder and lighting, so I want to see a proper one
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@WillowDarkling You can have all the thunder and lightning as your heart desires …. No reason we can’t all enjoy a good light show.
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I’m looking into this, since from my end, it doesn’t appear your email address has been updated. Let me see if we can get that done. Once it’s done, you should be able to follow the usual procedures to revalidate your account, as outlined in this FAQ.
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I have cover art!
NineStar Press is republishing my Witch’s Apprentice series, and Ghost’s Sight, the first book, has cover art. I’m really excited, and I can’t wait for the release date!
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Awesome!
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so PRETTY!
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Wonderful news. Sorry I am so late to see this. Congratulations on the new publishing deal. I truly hope it gets all the attention you deserve for this adorable story series.
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Let me start by saying I am fairly decent in Elvish, have a working knowledge of draconic and Ilythiiri, and have a few phrases in Klingon under my belt, just to establish my seriously geeky credentials. I use endearments in other languages. I might throw in a sentence or two, if my character is in a situation where the person with them has no clue what they’re saying. In that case, I want the reader to be as confused as the listener. Currently, I’m abusing Welsh, because I can, but I’ve mangled Irish Gaelic for my own purposes, too. And in fandoms, I do use the conlangs from those fandoms, because I expect my readers to understand the words and phrases, too. I guess that puts me on the fence, so to speak. I do use other languages, I don’t always translate or include a glossary, but I don’t do entire paragraphs or even frequent full sentences in those languages.
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Oh, I like that one!
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It might be Breaking Bad by mastershakeme.
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Well, yes, because stealing my wallet is up close and personal, so I can smack you for that. But usually the parking offenses occur when I’m not looking, so it’s either I get to vaporize the car, or I channel 6 sumo wrestlers to pick it up, move it, and drop it into one space. And I do mean drop it.
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The power to vaporize idiots who take more than one parking place. Really. I’m generally pretty easygoing, but I absolutely explode when faced with that sort of self-important, self-indulgent, self-centered behavior. And after I vaporize their car, I’m going to disintegrate all their participation awards, from preschool right on up.
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I think this is another case of editing via blog, and it’s unfortunate. It’s on a par with the writing advice word police, who tell us to remove “that” from a manuscript...except the Chicago Manual of Style (6-27) clearly tells us “that” is used for restrictive/essential phrases and “which” is used for nonrestrictive phrases, i.e., the sky filled with clouds that held the promise of a storm versus the sky which was blue. Look, anything used poorly is awful, I agree. But a blog or writing advice column is not the be-all and end-all for an author. The very best writing shows, not tells, and a good door slamming is a great show.
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I made the mistake of checking out our cocky friend, and I urge you all not to do it. Seriously. Talk about ego? -
I think some people are definitely hoping to garner publicity for a novel that most likely is cocky enough to promise more than it can deliver, which I find exceedingly cheeky.
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For me, the structure of having a fandom to play in gave me the courage to try to write the worlds in my head. I made my mistakes playing in someone else’s universe, which is not to say I’m not making mistakes in my own little worlds, but it feels rather nice to have them out there, warts and all.
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I’m inclined to say let’s try it, and see how it goes. Just label them clearly so we don’t get a dozen plagiarism reports about you stealing from yourself.
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We normally don’t allow multiple versions of a story unless it’s a translation into another language. I’m not sure a screenplay version would be sufficiently unique (for lack of a better word) to avoid confusing readers, but it’s an intriguing enough question that I’d love to hear what others think. How would you set it up, as two versions of the same story, in the same category under Originals?
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I think one of the most overlooked benefits of writing fan fiction is how often it leads to incredible original fiction.
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I actually broke all my own personal rules and accessed AFF from my phone the other day. I wanted to see how the Review and Report links at the bottom of a chapter displayed, since I have an inordinate number of reports in Tosmail (largely from iPhones) from people who are either doing the smartphone equivalent of butt-dialing me, or who leave reviews in the staff email which authors never see. I will say, perhaps in AFF’s defense, that my phone is a less-than-cutting-edge Samsung Galaxy S5 , and the screen is not immense. However, unless I held the phone sideways, it was really obnoxious to try and read on my phone. Navigating past what felt like endless menu links to get to the actual story text was not even remotely convenient, and has convinced me never to do that again. :shudders:
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I missed your birthday! A very belated happy birthday to you, youngster!
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Oh yeah, cake is the best thing about it.
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Happy birthday, Melrick!!
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Thanks! And I was given a late birthday present by discovering that ABBA have actually recorded new music together!
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It’s very true. Sometimes you need to actually prod the readers into realizing things that should be freaking obvious.
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Sometimes, something about a character’s appearance is relevant, and so I mention it. Maybe his eyes are a shade not customary where he’s living, or maybe he has a unique scar. But on the whole, I describe the minimum about a character’s appearance. As a reader, I don’t want an overload of details. I might not growl about it in a review, but I do prefer being able to put my own mental spin on a character.
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It’s a good day when you get a first look at the cover art for your book, and it’s completely amazing!
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Pretty pretty pictures for a wonderful story!
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I’m so excited to see it! And I can’t wait to read the new version too!
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So exciting! Hope we get to see it soon!
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I totally fucking love you.
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Oh, yes! This! Seriously, if I need to zoom to read what you’ve written, I’m just going to click on by.
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Bear and bare. Oh, and definitely and defiantly. Really???
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I just cringe when I see people editing according to their favorite blog. Honestly, the word lists are brutal, and often flat-out wrong. I’d rather rely on things like the Chicago Manual of Style, and actually read things aloud to hear how they sound.
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I’m going to own up to abuse of epithets. My editors tend to want to beat me over the head, I think, and they are teaching me to stop that annoying habit. It started, quite frankly, when one person who was editing a novella of mine took the hard and fast rule that there could only be one “he” in a paragraph. Dude, I write slash, okay? It’s ALL he. If you are clear enough in the context of the sentence, a reasonably sober reader can figure out which male it is. I’m also coming out in support of the correct use of “that” because nothing grates more than seeing people go through contortions in writing to avoid a word someone put on a blog as a “bad” word. There are no bad words. Trust me on this. A good editor understands when you need “that” as opposed to “which” and certainly as opposed to the spate of verbiage required to avoid using either word. I do miss the Oxford comma, however. Apparently it’s going out of style again. ::sigh::
