Rachel Lester

@sierra-r Don’t get me started on the Hobbit. Just don’t. That movie series crashed like a twenty-year old laptop. Those movies shouldn’t have been made. Let me just say that the romance between Tauriel and Kili . . . that was tacked on tension. It’s a master class on how to not do romance.

As for the Phantom? Girl, that’s my favorite musical!…[Read more]

@kate-flournoy As you all know, I love to procrastinate (my fatal flaw). But I’m here one month after being tagged with a reply. I haven’t exactly read all of the previous posts, so I’m probably gonna reiterate something previously said. Anyway . . .

I totally agree with your two main reasons. I actually read a writing book that required you to…[Read more]

@dragon-snapper Great!

Sometimes it’s the very people who no one imagines anything of, who do the things no one can imagine.

@I-j-Anderson

The A-Team

What @dragon-snapper said. Focus on vivid verbs for writing. Here’re some initial thoughts, @perfectfifths . . .

–The plot will be prime in a super short story.
–Characters have to make choices.
–A short story is like a one-act play or a short film. Every moment escalates the story until you reach the climax at the end.
–Keep dialogue sparse.…[Read more]

@michael-stanton

So what’s up with the kingdompen.wordpress.com thing? I found it when I just googled for kingdompen and clicked on it thinking it was the .org site. Are you planning to like have a redirection link? And what about the content on there?

I’m not published. I can just give you some articles:

https://letterpile.com/writing/How-Hard-Is-It-To-Get-Published-In-The-Real-World/

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