What I am reading. I am still on the manga/manhwa/manhua kick, and since so many of you asked, I thought I would share some recommendations. I would suggest Tapas and Tappytoon as entry point services. The content on both is carefully curated and you are less likely to encounter themes that might be too jarring
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Vive la France
I’ve noted quite a bit of French nomenclature and references to different French cultural things in House Andrews novels. When did an interest in France come into your lives? And have you two spent much time in France? This is the original text of WAR AND PEACE. I’d estimate about 1/10 of it is in
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Yesterday
My yesterday: The Irish are upset because the Aussie doesn’t care they exist or have a country. The English Northerners are perturbed by the absence of twat and think the guy sounds too posh. I added nonce, which made them laugh, and apparently they do go around calling each other that. The Irish are upset.
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Hours and Hours
In any number of careers you would need to take training courses or maintain qualifications. As writers, have you done anything more formal, after university, to hone your talent or is there something you plan/want to do in the future? Anything you found really helpful? Aside from just putting in the hours and hours actually
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Questions on Writing, Part 1
What’s it like to write funny stuff? As someone trying to learn to write, I’m confused about how you do it. The way you guys are funny seems to me like a ‘foibles and contradictions of human interaction, well narrated’ type of strategy, but how do you come up with that stuff? Is it part
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Burning money in the digital age
Do you have any marketing and marketing routine advices? Em This comes at a really good time, as I am trying to figure out the benefits of social media vs the drawbacks. To quickly recap, marketing is “paid” promotion while publicity is “earned” promotion. More on that in this blog post. As an author, there
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Novella finished
So we finished the “novella” project. It was supposed to be a 20K story. It is now 40K. I am not sure what reaction this will produce on the editorial end. Once we have more details, a cover, and a preorder link, I will let you know more. We are pivoting back trying to take
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Professional Jealousy
Do you get professional jealousy often, and if you do, is it over ideas or style? Mod R is getting hardcore with selecting blog prompts from your comments. Yes, we do get professional jealousy. No, it’s not over what we wrote or how we wrote. It usually is related to the popularity, money, and perceived
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Lake Research
One of my friends is trying to do some writing research, so I am asking on her behalf. She is looking for a lake in US, preferably somewhere warm, so it can be a summer home. The lake must be swimmable and have clear to semi-clear water for story reasons, so it can’t be completely
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Low Threshold
On Facebook, there was a discussion of “The 5 Finger Fantasy Rule: a Plea For Mercy from SFF Authors.” To summarize the article, the author would like to read SF and Fantasy, but after a few tries they found the jargon of the genre difficult to understand. Therefore they pled for mercy and suggested that
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S-Corp and Other Corps
I’m thinking of incorporating. What kind of corporation are you? I am going to give you a super valuable and totally awesome advice: talk to an accountant. I am not qualified to advise you on the type of corporation that’s best for you. Here is some background information for information purposes only. No matter what
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Advances: How they Work
Advances “So if a writer gets an advance and the book does not sell well do they have to repay part of the advance? Or does it affect future contracts – no contract / no advance etc.? Or it varies per the contract in place?” Short answer is no, advance doesn’t need to be paid
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