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farmebob1 this sounds interesting.  if I got your premise right it is people living with stone age technology but they have the written knowledge of advance technology but because they don't have the infrastructure they cant take advantage of the knowledge.

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Author Craft / Re: opinion wanted
« on: January 11, 2015, 06:34:33 AM »
I think I have a fix so I can keep the father Christmas reference (Santa Clause} later on in the book I will make reference to him being real by one of the non human  authority figures. I might even be able to use his lore to advance the story. I don't have the idea fleshed out but its got me excited.

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Author Craft / Re: opinion wanted
« on: January 10, 2015, 08:19:41 PM »
thanks for the father Christmas correction I would of caught it eventually but if I chose to use this cultural reference again it might of created more problems in my writing
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Author Craft / Re: opinion wanted
« on: January 10, 2015, 03:56:28 PM »
 the piece is urban fantasy the real world is the setting and the time period that I am writing is 1940. the setting is England. it is really important that the story resembles the historic time period and place I am writing about. if I have it to different culturally to the children reading it I believe I will lose something. I think the only choice is between keeping it as written or removing it.

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Author Craft / Re: opinion wanted
« on: January 10, 2015, 10:25:10 AM »
the first chapter tells the story of the witch and the Fairy
this part is in  the second chapter

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Author Craft / Re: opinion wanted
« on: January 10, 2015, 09:23:18 AM »
this is the section of my book that I am concerned about. I really like what I have written but at the same time as far as I am concerned belief Santa and the tooth fairy is the magic of childhood  so I don't no if I am going to keep it or not

“you will never guess what use to be where we live”.  The children then repeated the story of the mean witch and the broken hearted fairy that had lost it fellow fairy to the witch.  Mrs. Sudbury laughed and said that story was told to her by her grandma when she was a kid.
 


“Is it true” asked Laura with wonder in her eyes? Mrs. Sudbury just Smiled and said “I don’t know if it is true but it might be “. As far as Mrs. Angela Sudbury was concerned there was way too much serious stuff in these kid’s life with there being a war going on. If the children wanted to believe in fairies and evil witches let them have their fantasy. Life was already hard enough without a little bit of pretend and she did not see how this was different from saying yes there is a Santa clause or putting a pence under the pillow from the tooth fairy when a tooth was lost.



the kid reading the story  will find out that for the characters in the book the story about the witch and the fairy are true.

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Author Craft / opinion wanted
« on: January 09, 2015, 09:25:28 PM »
I am writing a fantasy book that is aimed at 8-12 year olds in it I have one of my characters an adult say that she sees nothing wrong with indulging a child's belief in witches and in fairies that as far as she is concerned that indulging this  belief is no different then a parent leaving money under the pillow from the tooth fairy or at Christmas time helping a child with a letter to Santa.
my concern is whether my saying this is like going up to a child and saying there is no Santa ba humbug.....
I personally love indulging children's belief in Santa clause and I am sure I am not ruining it for most over the age of eight but I no that I might have younger readers who will be reading it to who Santa is very real.
my question is should I leave it out. it is not important to the book but it does help to give personality to one of my characters.

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Author Craft / Re: World building: my strength and my weakness.
« on: December 28, 2014, 08:31:09 PM »
I am new to writing. I am a author wanabe.  one of the things I have discovered that helps me write is to set up an action in my story and try to figure what is the logical reaction in the story by the other characters to what has happened. some times it takes me in a direction that I never thought I would go in my writing but it is helpful to me

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My books title at least at this point is periwinkle. it is the story of a sprite (fairy) who gets trapped in a jen bottle  for four hundred years and escapes entrapment in the1960's..   I want to do a whole series of books dealing with the the historical and cultural events of the 1960-1970 and my character periwinkle.

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my word count is 10,218 as of this post and counting 

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Author Craft / Re: beta readers
« on: December 17, 2014, 02:07:30 AM »
I was out walking my dog today saw the little girl who read the first chapter of the book I am writing. it was great the only thing I could get out of her was that she liked it and she liked the names of the two characters of my story. it is hard to get opinions from the under the age of ten crowd.   I love it...   my goal is to someday have a kid I don't know to ask me to autograph a book I have written.

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years ago when I was going to the university. I was new to owning a computer and my computer windows program  failed only two months after getting a computer. I had ten page paper on it which was most my grade for my class. I paid 100 dollars just to get someone to either retrieve the paper or to fix the computer. they fixed the computer. I had a setting wrong on the computer that made it so I could not access other programs using windows. I think it took the person all of tem minutes to fix the problem. I felt ripped off by the company at the time. but since then it has been back up everything digatal

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Author Craft / Re: beta readers
« on: December 13, 2014, 04:10:09 PM »
I plan on using mostly adults as beta readers but when a chapter is at a point that really cant see making to many changes to it with out a complete rewrite I want to use kids because I am hopping that they will see a direction to take my work that I am not seeing or point out something that as an adult I don't understand as having meaning to them.

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I save every thing now even the stuff I hate. you never no when you have gold. years ago I did poetry. I destroyed everything that I wrote when I was doing poetry because when I came down from my manic high all it did was remind me how sick I was when I have a mania. I have a few examples that somehow managed to miss the great purge and it sickens me because one or two pieces are truly brilliant.

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thanks for the advice on writing. I no the key is to just write. I myself decided to write because. my life sucked I suffer from bipolar illness and have been on disability for years when ever I have tried to work or go to school my illness would get in the way. Last year I was so tired of being sick and tired. I decided to take up writing and to treat it as a full time job. it feels good to do this because if anyone asks me how I spend my days I now tell them that I am writing a book.

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