Daniel Thompson

@dragon-snapper Wow. Well, sounds promising.

@draggon-snapper What are the six?

@northerner Ah, yes. Well, here’s some ideas.
1. You can point out some highly successful self-published book. I’m thinking of The Martian, but there are others. Just do a google search.
2. Point out how traditional publishing has changed. They now expect you to essentially sell most of your books for them.
3. Point out how self-publishing has…[Read more]

@dragon-snapper Yeah, I really don’t think traditional publishing is the option for most people, though, like Josiah said, there are some benefits. These benefits aren’t really worth it though in most cases. I mean, you can get your own book in bookstores, advances aren’t normally very big anyways, and not many people care whether a book is…[Read more]

I don’t think anyone on here has traditionally published, so I may as well go ahead and say something. First off, you don’t need a literary agent, but from what I understand it is normally very helpful to have one. Also, it is generally accepted that you won’t be able to get with any sort of large publisher until you have already done well with at…[Read more]

Ok, here’s what Wikipedia says.

An alpha reader or beta reader, also pre-reader or critiquer, is a non-professional reader who reads a written work, generally fiction, with the intent of looking over the material to find and improve elements such as grammar and spelling, as well as suggestions to improve the story, its characters, or its setting.…[Read more]

I have not traditionally published yet, though I want to at some point. So I really don’t have experience with how hard it is, though I don’t think it is particularly easy. I do know one thing they look at now is an author’s platform. Even traditionally published authors are expected to market most of their own work, so the better platform you…[Read more]

@aysia-serene It’s someone who reads your story after it is written and give you critique on it. Basically, they’re editors, only normally not professional and you normally have them in addition to an editor.

@charisetter I wouldn’t worry too much about being cliche. The most important thing is that your character’s journey is very real and intense. It’s ok to copy genres, you just want to display something powerful. Now, that said, you shouldn’t copy people too much. It’s good to use unusual plot twists and other story elements.

Yep, there’s also the disillusionment arc. I think that covers all the arcs.

@kate-flournoy That makes it worse. Rev 3:16 “So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth.”

@dragon-snapper Pretty much what Kate said. Basically, every character has some sort of character. Generally though, that changes over the course of the story. Every character’s change is different, but the idea is that they can all be classified into different archetypes. Each of these archetypes is what we call a character arc and studying these…[Read more]

@kate-flournoy Nice count. I went through a couple of notes my dad made on my book and proofread my first chapter again.

@kate-flounoy Nice count. I went through a couple of notes my dad made on my book and proofread my first chapter again.

@kate-flournoy I’m late, but I’m here.

Yo, I’m writing till 4:20 if anyone’s interested.

@kate-flournoy Looks good. It might be clearer to phrase the theme as “man’s state,” but that’s minor.

@audrey-caylin I’d like to hear anything you’ve learned from working on a trilogy. this is my first one.

The three themes will be tied together. The personal theme is the meaning of life, which is also the main theme. The two others are supporting themes, so the understanding of atonement and the victory of good lead to an understanding of the…[Read more]

I decided this homework stuff is pretty awesome, so I’m doing it myself. I’m hoping to write a trilogy here, so I’m trying to study my overall story theme in order to start plotting the individual books. I came up with these three themes, focusing questions, and answers.

Themes:
1. Good and Evil (FQ: which will ultimately win?)
2. The meaning of…[Read more]

@emma-flournoy Well, Eugene would take these walks and Headstone would follow him everywhere, but Eugene would always pretend not to notice his existence in order to drive him to fury. It wasn’t really good, but it was interesting.