Joy Schmidt

@seekjustice After Charlie readers are the delta readers, then the echo readers, then the foxtrot readers, and so forth. 😛 Although, I hope I don’t have to do that many edits.

@rochellaine 😛 Didn’t realize it was that famous. Yep, that one. Sector One.

(And you know, if you wanted to charlie/gamma-read it after I finish this round of edits, I will be must obliged. 😛

@seekjustice That counts. 😀

@seekjustice @rochellaine Are either of you writing?

@jenwriter17 Coolio. 🙂 Go on your journey, Hobbit. An Unexpected One.

@jenwriter17 XD I know the feeling.

I’m Eastern Standard. (That’s what it’s called, right? 😛 ) You?

@jenwriter17 AH! So exciting! I love it when I actually get to start writing the book. XD

And I am editing until 9. And then at 9 I will write. 🙂

@jenwriter17 *falls over*

@jenwriter17 *runs away from life* AAAAHHH!!!! *slams door on the blizzards face* Sorry I’m late. But I’m here now.

My response is:

“She was going to write a Snow White retelling, and needed all the white books for research.”

*nods* I’m a genius. 😛

And I tag @supermonkey42 to write a one sentence story based on this picture:

@reaganramm This article:

Don’t Talk About Your Book Until It’s Published

(I think you guys are right. LOL 😛 )

@gh24682468999 As Audrey mentioned, I am a freelance editor. Getting started is a matter of (as Audrey also said) critiquing and editing friends’ and other writers’ manuscripts for free. If someone wants a beta or alpha reader–put your hand up! You’ll get practice and experience and also you’ll get your name out there as an editor.

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@Jenwriter17 oh my wooooord that’s so cute. XD I love it.

@Jenwriter17 I was away for the weekend but I still read the first 2 chapters of Esther and all. 😀 I noticed that too! Esther was beautifully submissive.

@dekreel @daughteroftheking @ariella-newheart @emma-flournoy @kate-flournoy @ethryndal

And here’s a flashback to one of the first gif war that lasted 3 pages.
https://kingdompen.org/forums/topic/taking-breaks-from-unfinished-books/page/2/ between me, Kate and Ethryndal. *nods*

Kate, why is it that you and I always have to get stuck in gif wars? 😛

Long live the gif wars!!! Guys, these things are so epic.

@Dragon-Snapper Have pancakes. They fix everything, you know. *pancakes*

@His-Instrument Aaahh, you too. Many times over. 😀

@Dragon-snapper yeah. They said it. 😛

@dekreel @skredder I’m signing out now. I really didn’t get that much done. Wrote about 150 words, read some articles about choppy writing, and resolved I need to read more.

@dragon-snapper I’m not really an expert on this, but the thing that’s helped me most is mixing things up — variety.

Variety in sentence length. I like to mix long, short, and medium sentences in a fairly even blend.

Variety in sentence openers. Too many subject openers in a row can get choppy. Try to throw in some -ings,…[Read more]

@dekreel Well, I was going by the military version. Gamma an Epsilon… I think those are Greek? Or some other version.

I don’t know. That’s just what I’m calling them.