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  Loading ...Find or Become a Beta Reader      | Perfect characters are boring as hell. Really, they are. Think about it…when the main character is physically gorgeous, runs faster, jumps higher, knows every trick, can pick a lock with his nose while blindfolded and never loses a fight, why bother reading any farther? The excitement of reading a good story is the thrill [...] I am still trying to shake the sleep out of my head and rub it out of my eyes. And it’s my day to blog. And lucky for me….I received a rewrite letter on Monday and am still trying to process it. So here goes with some general thoughts about rewrites [...] I have (pretty literally) just gotten back from the South Carolina Writers Workshop, where I taught some writing seminars this weekend. One of my classes was on writing dialog, and I’m going to…well. Not so much ‘modify my notes for Magical Words consumption’ as ‘cut and paste my notes for Magical Words consumption’, because [...] I’ve posted about character recently, and I’ve written a few posts about worldbuilding. Today I’m wrestling with plotting, so I thought I’d post about that. I’m mostly through the worldbuilding for my new project — my shiny new toy — and I know a good deal about my lead character. What I need now is a storyline for [...] The other day, I was led to the website of Mighty God King, who had created a series of LOLcovers (the covers of famous fantasy and science fiction novels, but with the titles changed to make fun of them. For example, one of Mercedes Lackey’s Valdemar novels was retitled “My Little Pony Goes to [...] My agent is celebrating this week with free giveaways from her clients to our fans. I have a short story on the site today (My second this week) which is a bit of backstory about a character in my new Skinwalker series staring Jane Yellowrock. She is a Cherokee Skinwalker, the character developed from Cherokee, [...] | This is a 2D-barcode containing the address of our mobile site.If your mobile has a barcode reader, simply snap this bar code with the camera and launch the site. Many companies provide barcode readers that you can install on your mobile, and all of the following are compatible with this format: | ||
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