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Author Craft / Re: Arting Harder at the Pen Monkey Toiling Pit (Celebrate Them Pages Pt III)
« on: December 13, 2014, 06:51:18 AM »
at the moment I am trying to get 1,000 words a day for me that is about 4 hours of writing.
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Author Craft / Re: Arting Harder at the Pen Monkey Toiling Pit (Celebrate Them Pages Pt III)
« on: December 13, 2014, 06:48:00 AM »
I just started writing last January. I spent the last year teaching myself to tell a story. I have had three false starts in writing a book because my skill at telling a story changed so drastically that I decided to start fresh. I am just happy to be at 11,000 word and not ready to start from scratch. I final am not embarrassed to show my work to others while my grammar skills need to improve. I have story flow and structure down. my writing so far has been free form no story board but I have decided that I got to sit down and outline my story so that I have belter structure to the writing.
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Author Craft / Re: Arting Harder at the Pen Monkey Toiling Pit (Celebrate Them Pages Pt III)
« on: December 12, 2014, 07:41:43 PM »
not judging myself but I am still impressed
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Author Craft / Re: Arting Harder at the Pen Monkey Toiling Pit (Celebrate Them Pages Pt III)
« on: December 12, 2014, 06:36:22 AM »
I am impressed. the most I can do in a day is about 3,000words
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Author Craft / beta readers
« on: December 11, 2014, 04:49:00 AM »
I was just curies if anyone has a suggestion on how to handle beta readers. I am writing a urban fantasy novel aimed at 8-12 year olds. . I was out today walking my dog and the kids in my neighborhood love to play with my dog. they have gotten to know me because I take my dog for a walk about every hour and a half to give myself a break from writing. the kids in the neighborhood know that I am trying to write a book. today they found out it was a children's book and they were curies about it and asked when it was going to be in the stores. I had to explain to them that I am new at writing and that it might never get into the stores because I am not done writing it and don't have a publisher. I told them that only one of my chapters is ready for beta reading. I then explained that it meant that if they read it they could tell me what they like and don't like in the book and that if they really did not like something I want to know along with what they really like. I went home and then went through my first chapter trying to clean it up. when I was done I went over to my neighbors house and gave it to there mom to give to her kids to read. my question to anyone here is how do you handle kids as beta readers.
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Author Craft / Re: Sack up.
« on: December 08, 2014, 07:20:07 AM »
are you advertising a SERVICE IF YOU ARE THIS IS THE WRONG PLACE FOR THAT.
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Author Craft / Re: How do you deal with Writer's Block?
« on: November 23, 2014, 06:09:08 AM »
I take my dog for a walk. I have only recently started to write and I have discovered if I am having a problem with how to present a idea all I have to do is grab my dog
Bennie and take him for a walk. while I walk Bennie I usually have my center of attention on my dog talking to him and enjoying his company by the time I get home and sit down to write the block is gone. the worse things I can do is engage in any other activitie or sit in front of the computer.
Bennie and take him for a walk. while I walk Bennie I usually have my center of attention on my dog talking to him and enjoying his company by the time I get home and sit down to write the block is gone. the worse things I can do is engage in any other activitie or sit in front of the computer.
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Author Craft / rules on watching telivision for writers
« on: November 22, 2014, 06:34:58 AM »
this week I made the rule in my house that the television only is allowed on after 7pm during the week because I found having it as an option was making it hard to sit down an write I was wondering if other authors or wanabes like me have special rules about television in there home.
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Author Craft / Re: How do you deal with Writer's Block?
« on: July 24, 2014, 01:48:50 AM »
I stop working on what I am working on and just write anything for an hour then go back to what I was working on
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Community Cork Board / Re: help wanted
« on: April 19, 2014, 04:30:38 AM »
new update I have dogs now and they will try and protect any fae that comes and clean. though they will bark a lot.
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Author Craft / Re: Your Pet Urban Fantasy Cliche Peeves
« on: April 16, 2014, 12:38:39 AM »
it would be interesting to do a urban fantasy that all you used was the cliché. basically only use stereotypes.
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Author Craft / Re: Your Pet Urban Fantasy Cliche Peeves
« on: April 15, 2014, 08:06:04 PM »
the cliché I hate the most is the one of the evil vampire trying to be good unlike all other vampires. (I am sorry Thomas but you are a cliché)
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Author Craft / Re: posesivnes of charicters
« on: April 15, 2014, 07:57:38 PM »
I just started to try and write short stories. I have read fan fiction but realy don't have a desire to do it. I want to tell my stories not explore other peoples. but I am finding the more I write the more possessive I feel for my characters.
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Author Craft / posesivnes of charicters
« on: April 14, 2014, 10:41:51 PM »
I have just started writing short story's and never understood writers dread of fan fiction till now. I have come up with a character and I don't ever want someone else using that character. anyone else feel possessive of there writing.
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Calendar Event Discussion / Re: Skin Game Release Party in Los Angeles/Redondo Beach - May 27
« on: March 13, 2014, 11:51:35 PM »
I have decided to go to to skin games release party in Redondo beach. if anyone else is going let me know so we can meet up