katie

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]

A dark lord who takes snuff.

A dragon with arthritis.
A griffon prone to colds.

@sarah-h
First of all, the difference between a publisher and a realtor. A publisher is a person or company that turns your text document into a book. an e-book publisher is just like a traditional publisher except that they have far less work to do. A realtor is basically just a book store, except for e-book realtors, they are an online book…[Read more]

YES. ABSOLUTELY ONE HUNDRED PERCENT CORRECT @ROLENA-HATFIELD

Princess Academy sounds fascinating. And the surroundings symbol is a really good idea. And…

It’s not so easy for our brave, courageous hero to walk around with their great-grandmother’s lace croquet pillow and still look fearless.

That so totally made me laugh.

Okay, I think this topic merits reintroducing. 🙂

New thought on this. Sometimes, symbols can be used to actually tell the story.
Let me explain. I’ll use an example because I have no idea if this kind of… thing… has a technical term.

Say we have a fantasy world where each and every single person has a candle— lit and burning from the…[Read more]

You do everything or contract what you want, you have complete control of everything, you can do whatever you want, you make or break yourself and all of your mistakes and all of your victories rest on you. It is an incredible opportunity. A little scary, but the opportunities for success are way broader than the opportunities for failure. The…[Read more]

Exactly.

Absolutely, and get your work edited as much as possible. You never know what’s wrong with your story until someone else tells you, but once you have heard the same thing several times, you start to break through the mental barriers and realize in clear terms exactly how you really should be writing.

Hey I just wanna say something really quick.

If you want to write good books, read good books. You can learn twice as much from reading one well-written novel than from reading a dozen books on how to write that kind of novel.

I would not even be writing today if my parents hadn’t seen to it that I had almost endless resources of high quality…[Read more]

I use scrivener. I’m not sure how it compares with Storyist, but I think you can make notes for yourself similar to what you are talking about. Honestly, I hardly use any of scrivener’s features.

A hangman who always dreamed of making his living as a jester.

An army of glow worms?

THAT… would be totally creepy. Especially if you had to fight in the dark… *shudder*

Yes! That is one of my absolute favorite verses, @gretald.

Ooh— and an ugly elf. 😛

A hero with a peg leg, eye-patch, and a golden tooth.

I read, “A dashing young frenchman. There aren’t enough of those.” Haha. Oops.

Do it @Daeus. Do it.

@kate-flournoy I might actually.