Karina Sanchez

*terrified squeal* Um… 2045?
Or maybe… never. 😛 I honestly don’t know if it even has the potential to be published at all. Historical fiction has to be stunningly outstanding to even do tolerably well in today’s market.

Everybody dies.

Okay. That was a joke.

@belegteleri
That’s great your loving poetry. It is worth the effort for sure. This poem’s got a real “real” feel to it. The one thing I might focus on more is poetic imagery (smilies and metaphors). If one could master only one poetic technique, I think I would pick imagery. You’ll love playing around with it because imagery is just plain fun.

Yes, the Teleri are fascinating, and poor Beleg is a wonderful character. *sigh* The best characters usually have the worst ends. :'(

So yeah, watch out for the long lines, and that’s pretty much it for this poem. You did good with the emotion— that’s always something I highly prize in a poem, and when it’s very raw and gripping I like it…[Read more]

Hey, glad you found it interesting @bluejay! 😀

*horrified gasp* Oh no! That’s terrible!

Well actually, I don’t think you have to worry about it too much. It is a given, after all, that most humans have noses. 😛

Ha… yes, his nose. 🙂 For some reason I tend to give my characters noses that fit their personality types. It’s… kind of weird, when you think about it. 😛

*pauses with mouse over ‘submit’, cringes, moves back to message and inserts*: @Daeus.
*sigh* These tag things will be the death of me yet.

😉

Hey @belegteleri, this is a great poem! I loved it, which is saying a lot since I don’t usually go for free verse. The only thing I would say is watch out for the lines that are much, much longer than other lines, as that can tend to break up the flow.

By the way, I thought Beleg was a bowman, not a shipwright. *wink* 😉

Hey @beleg-teleri, this is a great poem! I loved it, which is saying a lot since I don’t usually go for free verse. The only thing I would say is watch out for the lines that are much, much longer than other lines, as that can tend to break up the flow.

By the way, I thought Beleg was a bowman, not a shipwright. *wink* 😉

An MC who grows up all his life thinking he’s the son of a king, then discovers he’s the son of a pauper.
Actually I’m planning to do that already. 🙂

@kate-flournoy the guy seemed pretty interesting. The scene displayed that he is important and that he has an unordinary life – a secret life to some degree. I also liked that he had a perfectly straight nose because that seemed to give him a personality unique to his type.

@sarah-h Well, at least as you start.

A scheming fairy god-mother.

Thank you, @Daeus. That pretty much answers all the doubts I had about this scene.
You should hire yourself out as a professional editor.

But honestly, I don’t know how anyone could stand such a profession. 😛

One question— what about the guy? Did the scene pique your interest in him? That’s pretty much the only purpose to have it— to show…[Read more]

@kate-flournoy I don’t think all the adverbs and adjectives are bad. There is some good description here. The worst part is at the beginning. It would have been better I’m sure with some context, but there was an over description or at least ineffective description that made it feel like running through two foot water. It got much better later on.…[Read more]

Those are some great ones @hope. Those could seriously be stories. I’ve always wondered myself why people thought that if they found aliens the aliens would be super intelligent.

A dragon with arthritis.
A griffon prone to colds.

Haha, those are great @kate-flournoy!

Cool. I’m bookmarking this stuff.

Ok, now for the explanation. I’ll skip number one, because that is mainly what we always talk about here. Here we go.

2.Get as many people as possible to see that your book exists.

This is the subject of what we call “visibility”. There are three-ish ways to get visibility. One is by promoting the book yourself by emailing your friends, doing…[Read more]