Do you tend to compare published work (which breaks the rules) with your own submitted work? - CrimeSpace2024-03-29T14:22:10Zhttps://crimespace.ning.com/forum/topics/do-you-tend-to-compare?commentId=537324%3AComment%3A248351&feed=yes&xn_auth=noUm, are you sure you're not j…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2010-09-12:537324:Comment:2498372010-09-12T10:56:55.334ZMiriam Piahttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/MiriamPia
Um, are you sure you're not just bored?<br />
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There is always the question of how is just like everyone else as a reader and how one is not. When an author bores me, I usually don't stick with it. In truth, however, since writing professionally with more success ...I don't even think the way that I used to....It just doesn't even compute like that anymore.<br />
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In fact, I'm started to get weirded out just from thinking about how much my brain has been changed ...I started writing fiction from pure…
Um, are you sure you're not just bored?<br />
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There is always the question of how is just like everyone else as a reader and how one is not. When an author bores me, I usually don't stick with it. In truth, however, since writing professionally with more success ...I don't even think the way that I used to....It just doesn't even compute like that anymore.<br />
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In fact, I'm started to get weirded out just from thinking about how much my brain has been changed ...I started writing fiction from pure passion and nonfiction because it was a school assignment. Now I'm excited because I have a chance of being paid decently for some nonfiction of a type that I never imagined I would write for pay when I was younger. Thanks everyone for the respo…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2010-09-11:537324:Comment:2497292010-09-11T05:55:45.449ZFrank Zubekhttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/FrankZubek
Thanks everyone for the response
Thanks everyone for the response Ah, yes. That's very true. Ho…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2010-09-10:537324:Comment:2496182010-09-10T14:09:33.359ZI. J. Parkerhttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/Ingpark
Ah, yes. That's very true. How soon we forget those dreary fall faculty meetings!
Ah, yes. That's very true. How soon we forget those dreary fall faculty meetings! School must be in session aga…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2010-09-10:537324:Comment:2495802010-09-10T02:09:22.458ZBenjamin Sobieckhttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/BenjaminSobieck
School must be in session again.
School must be in session again. It has EVERYTHING to do with…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2010-09-09:537324:Comment:2495572010-09-09T22:48:41.200ZJulie Dolcemaschiohttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/JulieDolcemaschio
It has EVERYTHING to do with writing. Everything.
It has EVERYTHING to do with writing. Everything. Jude:
Your comment,"The rule…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2010-09-09:537324:Comment:2495562010-09-09T22:37:07.874ZJackBludishttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/JackBludis
Jude:<br />
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Your comment,"The rule is, you have to compel the agent or editor or customer at a bookstore to keep reading. And none of these folks has a lot of patience," Is as close to on target as I have ever seen on the subject of openings, but your comment on the opening of "Slay Ride": "How can I possibly stop there?" is off target.<br />
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Perhaps you couldn't stop, but I could easily stop. I don't like crime stories where a child plays an integral part---too squeamish I suppose. But there are many…
Jude:<br />
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Your comment,"The rule is, you have to compel the agent or editor or customer at a bookstore to keep reading. And none of these folks has a lot of patience," Is as close to on target as I have ever seen on the subject of openings, but your comment on the opening of "Slay Ride": "How can I possibly stop there?" is off target.<br />
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Perhaps you couldn't stop, but I could easily stop. I don't like crime stories where a child plays an integral part---too squeamish I suppose. But there are many readers, agents, and editors who are nothing like me, so that may be a perfect beginning for them.<br />
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Another thing writers fail to realize is that no matter how good something is, if it is not on the topic, if it does not include the kinds of characters or is not in a style that a reader likes, is not written with a diction he or she can deal with or voice that she or he likes, it will not hit with that reader and that reader will stop reading.<br />
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Tens of Millions of people have bought and read Stieg Larsson's "The Girl Who ... " books but certainly there are also hundreds of thousands of people who started them and couldn't get into them, and untold numbers of readers who do not go to best seller lists who have never heard of them yet.<br />
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Whenever we are looking for the magic that gets a book read, we have to understand that there are several kinds of magic: the magic of writing a terrific book, the magic of getting the book read by the entry people, the magic of getting it published, and the magic of having it loved by many and talked about.<br />
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The other word that replaces "magic" is "luck."<br />
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It all starts with writing that excellent book to begin with, after we send it out, it's all luck. I usually edit in my head as…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2010-09-09:537324:Comment:2495512010-09-09T22:24:22.087ZJackBludishttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/JackBludis
I usually edit in my head as I read the work of another.<br />
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I try to get the reader into my world.<br />
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As far as rules? There are none. There are only guidelines. Long descriptions that open a book are somewhat passe, but we still see them, and they often are very fine works.<br />
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We get an editor's or reader's attention by writing our very best and hope that the editor likes it.
I usually edit in my head as I read the work of another.<br />
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I try to get the reader into my world.<br />
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As far as rules? There are none. There are only guidelines. Long descriptions that open a book are somewhat passe, but we still see them, and they often are very fine works.<br />
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We get an editor's or reader's attention by writing our very best and hope that the editor likes it. This is correct.tag:crimespace.ning.com,2010-09-08:537324:Comment:2493292010-09-08T00:56:04.217Zlee calecahttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/leecaleca
This is correct.
This is correct. Exactly right! When you work…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2010-09-08:537324:Comment:2493282010-09-08T00:54:07.937Zlee calecahttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/leecaleca
Exactly right! When you work for them. I was talking about working for yourself.
Exactly right! When you work for them. I was talking about working for yourself. plot and story structure can…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2010-09-07:537324:Comment:2492912010-09-07T21:20:37.489ZI. J. Parkerhttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/Ingpark
<b>plot and story structure can be fixed; bad writing cannot.</b><br />
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This is absolutely true, and I don't think we've mentioned that fact.
<b>plot and story structure can be fixed; bad writing cannot.</b><br />
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This is absolutely true, and I don't think we've mentioned that fact.