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Interesting! It got me to click. How would you get across the genre though? And do you intend to publish the whole novel on-line?

Guess I don't read enough King, coz I wouldn't expect something like that from him. Is the quote from On Writing? Without context, I've an entirely different take on the statement. It seems like he's telling us not to write to the lowest...

Interesting Mel L, however the quote does not necessarily come from On Writing, of which I have a copy. Stephen King has given countless lectures, talks and discussions over an extremely long career so the quote could be taken from one of those...

Welcome Julie. You are getting feedback and answers already so you should do fine on here. You have also posted, so you are well underway. Good luck with your work.

Hopefully we will both learn from people's comments Pamela Jo. I certainly hope so.

That is a very interesting reply Hannah. I see where you are coming from, especially about slanting the narrative. I must admit though that I still find it hard to write the story I want to tell and want to read - I can never get over the fact...

Fyi, emails are calculated to account for about 0.3% of the world’s carbon footprint. It’s not as profligate as dear old ChatGPT, but it’s something.

I don't know if you can recall @AgentPete that about 15 years ago when faced with huge costs of hardware such as state-of-the-art data centres, microwave, satellite etc to meet the growth of internet usage major ISPs proposed a token charge for...

The way I have always understood it is that if you were talking about something personal possessive to Julius you add the s, i.e. Julius's nose. Whereas something non-personal drops the possessive s, i.e. Julius' letter. Do you see the subtle...

Thanks, David, appreciated! Yes, I may see how it goes experientially. I think the main drawback is that most writers don’t seem to know many other writers… apart from fellow Litopians!… but a few do, and I’ll get something going with them...

The quote 'Write for the top ten percent of your readers' is attributed to Stephen King. After giving it a tremendous amount of thought I bore this in mind in my own writing for novels like Scenes From A Dying Planet and my WIP. Before I write...

Welcome human. It is a long time since I have read any science fiction even though I love a good sci fi movie like Dune. Perhaps you can make me change alleyways you tease...

I'm virtually attending the 2025 SFF Worldcon this week/weekend and just sat in on a panel called "Where’s the Money in Indie Publishing?" Was FAB! One of the panelists pointed us to a survey The Alliance of Independent Authors (UK) did that...

One take away from the statistics for me is 61.63% use reader magnets i.e. free book or other incentive and 50.87% use book giveaways. Personally, now that I pay much more attention to these matters and publicity offers, I have been utterly...

That’s my inference, too. Actually, it’s the only possible reason I can see for all these author-friendly organisations to be on the other side of this case. Even so, if their argument is essentially, “we’re not quite ready to take this case on...