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@Dragon-Snapper We’re like a couple of squabbling siblings. One minute, we’re yelling at each other, and the next…

@Mariposa I’m officially done hijacking your thread. Sorry.

@Dragon-Snapper But seriously, we both posted our things at the same time. *high-five* Mental telepathy.

@Mariposa Well TECHNICALLY, @Dragon-Snapper started it. *elbows her* Behave yourself.

@Audrey-Caylin What I tend to do, is write out a list of the problems and then write out ways that I’m going to fix those problems. Sometimes I do that on paper, or a doc, or whatever. But I do it with a dot-point list. Kind of like…

• Fred’s character arc is terrible
• Big plot hole in chapter six onward

And so on. Then there’s the list of…[Read more]

@sleepwalkingmk You’re very welcome! 😀

@Dragon-Snapper For your information, A.) You just melted the hologram of a chair, not the actual chair, B.) I don’t have a phone, and C.) my sarcasm is indestructible, especially by children such as yourself. Take that.

@Audrey-Caylin Well, my editing has never been what you’d call “Organized” so I’ll leave this one to the professionals. Except to second what’s already been said and say that comments on the document are always lovely. 🙂

@Mariposa This brought tears to my eyes. A true masterpiece.

@Dragon-snapper *brandishes fork* HA, joke’s on you. My chairs are specially engineered to withstand dragon fire. *inspects fingernails and flicks a speck of dust from her shoulder* Better luck next time, my dear.

@audrey-caylin I organize my editing notes with the comments feature built into scrivener, google docs, word, etc. So, whenever a beta reader leaves a comment, if the fix is too much to handle right then as I’m reading through the beta reader’s comments, I’ll copy it over to my personal copy of the document. I’ll do the same thing if their comment…[Read more]

@mariposa Oh my word I’m giggling so hard. XD This is THE BESTISTEST. xP

@mariposa This is fantastic. 😀

Tagging @the-real-kapeefer for good measure.

@mariposa These are great. 😀

I believe Gracie and Sierra are @graciegirl and @sierra-r

@sleepwalkingmk Nice! I’ve put in a couple of comments on the actual doc for you. 🙂

@xonos-darkgrate I know some people who would find that too graphic, but I don’t. I think there’s a good light/dark contrast and it doesn’t make me feel empathetic toward the villain so I’d say this is good so long as it’s for a good purpose. 🙂

Oh, and I didn’t read your excerpt either. If I did, I’d want to know what basic content was in it first and I might not be able to get it in anyways.

@xonos-darkgrate

I’ll just stop in real quick to drop a few bits of meat, but if you want to hear a lot about this subject, we have several articles on it.

The thing I think is crucial to understand with content is that you want sympathy but you do not want empathy.

Sympathy is when you feel for or understand another person’s e…[Read more]

@leumeister Yes

@leumeister I would personally vote 1, 3, 2.

@amy-l-klob I’d recommend starting by introducing your protagonist, but I would be careful about having a slow lead-in to the actual story. You want to grab the audience’s attention in the first page. That doesn’t mean you need to immediately leap into the main plot of your novel, but you should be including some conflict and/or intrigue that…[Read more]