DavidBCoeI have posted here before about worldbuilding, and no doubt I will again. Only a month or so ago, Benjamin Tate gave us an excellent guest post on the subject. But I have been thinking about worldbuilding in a new way since beginning work on the Thieftaker books, which are my first set in a [...]
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  Loading ...Find or Become a Beta Reader      | My subject this week is paragraph and sentence structure. I know, you suddenly have visions of your 5th grade teacher, who looked a lot like Marge Simpson but without the cool style and hip clothes. The smell of chalk or water-based-board markers (pick your toxins: one has particulates that get in your lungs, one kills [...] posted by read all posts by Special Guest Stars  Greetings, dear readers! I’m Jessica Wade, and I’m an editor at Ace and Roc, the science fiction and fantasy imprints of Penguin. The lovely Faith (AKA Gwen) Hunter asked me to write a guest post for you all, and in this case I’m going to follow the age-old dictate that says ‘write what you know’ [...] I’ve been working with some writers who have become friends. It’s really cool to have writers in my life: people who know the business and have been publishing books for years, people who are just getting into the professional side of the business, people who hope to get there some day. They all enrich my [...] I’ve worked with a number of writers over the years, and all have been desperately eager to get into print, and the younger they were, the more desperate they were. The very youngest believed they were ready—“right now, right this minute”—to be published. Hearing that they were not ready, or that their writing needed a [...] Never write in second person. Always start with a powerful first line. Never change POVs in the middle of a scene. Eschew adjectives. And adverbs. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah… Magical Words is a blog devoted to helping people write better, and there’s a lot of great advice to be found here. And it’s all negotiable. Seriously. There isn’t a [...] | 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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