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Xoic liked Set2Stun's post in the thread Is my backstory too long?.
Yeah, cut that first chapter entirely. A childhood background chapter isn't a good way to engage readers. I do understand having those...
May 30, 2024 at 4:07 AM -
Set2Stun replied to the thread Is my backstory too long?.
Yeah, cut that first chapter entirely. A childhood background chapter isn't a good way to engage readers. I do understand having those...
May 30, 2024 at 3:55 AM -
Set2Stun replied to the thread Rejection, rejection, rejection....
Ope, me again. It's bound to happen when you go on a little submission spree I suppose. All form letters with one "submit again." 2-day...
May 30, 2024 at 3:18 AM -
Set2Stun liked Homer Potvin's post in the thread Is my backstory too long?.
Easy. Don't dump it all at once. Sprinkle and reveal a little as you go. Just because it's backstory doesn't mean it has to...
May 30, 2024 at 3:13 AM -
Xoic liked the_blue_crab's post in the thread New ghostwriter haunting your forum.
Hello everybody, I'm a ghostwriter of commercial serial thrillers and I'm new to this forum. I like to write short stories in my spare...
May 30, 2024 at 3:07 AM -
Xoic replied to the thread New ghostwriter haunting your forum.
Did anybody else see that? Something moved in the corner. Something like—a big blue crab, but transparent and floating all wavy in the...
May 30, 2024 at 3:07 AM -
Xoic replied to the thread Is my backstory too long?.
Backstory isn't something that needs to be presented for readers, it's for the writer, so you understand the character well. You'll...
May 30, 2024 at 3:04 AM -
Xoic liked Amontillado's post in the thread What AI risks.
Ok, I'm officially jaded. Indeed.com has a helpful article titled How to Become a Writer in 8 Steps. Presumably, recovery from being a...
May 30, 2024 at 2:58 AM -
Set2Stun replied to the thread Things you recently bought or got.
My air conditioner seemed to be blowing a little less cold last summer, so I started looking to see what a tune up might cost me. Seems...
May 30, 2024 at 2:50 AM -
Set2Stun replied to the thread The Notable Death Thread.
Oh, I forgot to mention it the other day. Morgan Spurlock, the guy who made that 2004 documentary Supersize Me, died last week at 53.
May 30, 2024 at 2:43 AM -
Xoic liked w. bogart's post in the thread The Notable Death Thread.
Doug Ingle, Iron Butterfly founding member and singer of 'In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida,' dead at 78.
May 30, 2024 at 2:39 AM -
Amontillado replied to the thread What AI risks.
Ok, I'm officially jaded. Indeed.com has a helpful article titled How to Become a Writer in 8 Steps. Presumably, recovery from being a...
May 30, 2024 at 2:38 AM -
Van Turner replied to the thread What Are You Reading Now..
I'm reading a play script: They Promised Her the Moon, by Laurel Ollstein. Also reading, as research for the play, The Mercury 13 - The...
May 30, 2024 at 2:20 AM -
w. bogart replied to the thread The Notable Death Thread.
Doug Ingle, Iron Butterfly founding member and singer of 'In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida,' dead at 78.
May 30, 2024 at 2:05 AM
