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BronxWench reacted to Thundercloud in So I’m over on Literotica reading this Erotic Horror story called “The Girl Next Door
I think theory number 2 sounds quite plausible…
About a possible writers block coming up. Try to don’t worry too much about it...it is a bit like having a bad cough where the cough can be triggered by you just had to cough (repeated for a couple of months). At the end of day us nonprofessional writers can do something completely different if it is hard to make progress since we don’t use our writing to get food on the table.
I also think that some stories with happy endings require extra effort. In programming there are often jokes about 90% of code taking 90% of the time and the remaining 10% taking the other 90 % of the time. The same applies to quality writing where connecting the final plot points often take a surprising proportion of the total time. Speaking from experience it might seen like you hit a writers block when you are in middle of it but with hindsight you realize you were just making slow progress with a very important part of the story.
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BronxWench got a reaction from InvidiaRed in Blurbs are turning out to be my kryptonite Dx
The job of the blurb is to get a potential reader to say, “Hey… hmmm...” and to look at the book’s summary—that one to two paragraph bit from the flyleaf or back of the book that clinches the sale.
Your blurb got me interested enough to look at a summary (when you have one, of course!). I’d say it did its job, right there.
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BronxWench got a reaction from JayDee in Blurbs are turning out to be my kryptonite Dx
The job of the blurb is to get a potential reader to say, “Hey… hmmm...” and to look at the book’s summary—that one to two paragraph bit from the flyleaf or back of the book that clinches the sale.
Your blurb got me interested enough to look at a summary (when you have one, of course!). I’d say it did its job, right there.
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BronxWench reacted to InBrightestDay in Blurbs are turning out to be my kryptonite Dx
I don’t know if that’s a problem. I had the summary/blurb for WitS be from Kevin’s PoV, but the story isn’t all from his perspective.
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BronxWench reacted to JayDee in Blurbs are turning out to be my kryptonite Dx
Is Mooncairn in New Jersey?
...I kid, I kid. It’s got some details about what’s happened, a bit of a hint to other than human elements and a kind of spooky final sentence. What’s not to like?
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BronxWench got a reaction from JayDee in Blurbs are turning out to be my kryptonite Dx
Okay, I’m interested.
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BronxWench got a reaction from JayDee in Blurbs are turning out to be my kryptonite Dx
Blurbs and summaries are everyone’s Kryptonite. I always apologize to my hapless editor whenever I have to write one.
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BronxWench got a reaction from GeorgeGlass in So I’m wondering: When I finish my She-Ra and the Princesses of Power fanfic (God hel
I think sticking with the original She-Ra category is certainly the quickest solution.
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BronxWench got a reaction from InvidiaRed in Blurbs are turning out to be my kryptonite Dx
Blurbs and summaries are everyone’s Kryptonite. I always apologize to my hapless editor whenever I have to write one.
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BronxWench reacted to JayDee in Blurbs are turning out to be my kryptonite Dx
Getting them right can feel harder than writing the story. I always thought any blurb at all was better than folks putting “I suck at summaries! Just read!” or similar.
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BronxWench reacted to JayDee in Blurbs are turning out to be my kryptonite Dx
That sounds like something I’d say.
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BronxWench reacted to InvidiaRed in Blurbs are turning out to be my kryptonite Dx
@Jaydee didn’t you say something similar to
want to read the perfect story?
Well read this piece of shit in the meantime. Lol.
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BronxWench reacted to GeorgeGlass in So I’m wondering: When I finish my She-Ra and the Princesses of Power fanfic (God hel
I suppose it would make sense to put it in the existing She-Ra category, as it’s just labeled “She-Ra” and doesn’t include the “Princess of Power” subtitle that would make it specific to the 80s series.
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BronxWench reacted to JayDee in So I’m wondering: When I finish my She-Ra and the Princesses of Power fanfic (God hel
Thundercats only has the one category for all the series’ so it looks like there’s some precedent for sticking new series in with 80s series! I guess it’ll take a mod to give the decision
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BronxWench reacted to JayDee in Well, posted a story with a Roman Shower. I guess that’s one off the sick bucket list
I’m more like a ventriloquist’s dummy or maybe a puppet on strings. Sometimes the muse that picks me up to write is a funny, decent hearted, happy story lovin’ goofball. The other times it’s a cold blooded Lamia that hates life and beauty and just about everything in the world, ‘bout the only thing they like is a challenge. Oh, and for some reason, insisting on sharing the stories to AFF when the sensible thing would be to encase the USB stick containing the latest crime against literature & good taste in concrete, sail it out to The Mariana Trench, and throw it overboard.
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BronxWench reacted to JayDee in Well, posted a story with a Roman Shower. I guess that’s one off the sick bucket list
You already wrote a pity sequel! Although, admittedly, the pity wasn’t for me.
And sound choice to give it a miss. I don’t mind if I don’t get reviews on that one, it is probably for the best. The few people that piece of shit might appeal to probably want a minimal digital footprint.
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BronxWench reacted to InBrightestDay in Well, posted a story with a Roman Shower. I guess that’s one off the sick bucket list
*Looks at Urban Dictionary* Oh...Roman shower, like how in Rome there were those rooms where...yeah, I’ll keep that image to myself.
You know, I almost read this, purely because I saw that no one was reviewing it. I then realized two things.
A “pity review” is probably kind of insulting. Your summary specifically warned me not to read it, and that doesn’t generally happen... I figured I’d heed the warning and stay out.
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BronxWench reacted to JayDee in Well, posted a story with a Roman Shower. I guess that’s one off the sick bucket list
Always happy to help!
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BronxWench reacted to InvidiaRed in Well, posted a story with a Roman Shower. I guess that’s one off the sick bucket list
Your unique touch is certainly something.
I’m just gonna jump into the brain bleach pool real quick.
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BronxWench reacted to JayDee in Well, posted a story with a Roman Shower. I guess that’s one off the sick bucket list
I ordered a few 100 gallons extra during the re-write process.
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BronxWench reacted to WillowDarkling in Well, posted a story with a Roman Shower. I guess that’s one off the sick bucket list
Something tells me I should NOT google “Roman shower”….
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BronxWench reacted to JayDee in Well, posted a story with a Roman Shower. I guess that’s one off the sick bucket list
You’ll be fine – it would just bring up loads of Italian bathroom equipment. The terms to avoid googling would be +“Roman shower” +”slang” .
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BronxWench reacted to WillowDarkling in Well, posted a story with a Roman Shower. I guess that’s one off the sick bucket list
LOL, thanks for clearing that up, JayDee
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BronxWench reacted to JayDee in Pass the brain bleach, please?
If we’ve run out, it might be because some of my readers were hogging it again.
