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RK Wallis replied to the thread Welcome… I’m New Here! The Loneliest Chapter of my Writing Career (help a new girl out).Welcome @RedSquiggle :) Last year, I submitted 51 queries (and I spent 2 years polishing the title, query, synopsis and pitch in Huddles) on my 2nd YA Fantasy. I got 2 requests for fulls. One was rejected, one I'm still waiting but it'll be a... -
RK Wallis replied to the thread Craft Chat 5 Things you’ve learned writing ‘Book name”.I missed this! What a great thread @LJ Beck :) 1. YouTube can be a great resource. 2. Resist the urge to explain. 3. To differentiate what sounds like "writing" and DELETE (kill those darlings): boil the story down to the action. 4. Readers are...
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RK Wallis reacted to Nikky Lee's post in the thread Craft Chat 5 Things you’ve learned writing ‘Book name” with
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Here's mine in no particular order of importance (just what came to me first): 1. You and your editor will edit the book to within an inch of its life. You will then hand it over to your proofreader confident they won't find much. Proofreader... -
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I think the biggest things I learned while writing TTwP are: 1) What one person finds funny, another person completely misses. 2) MS Word spell checker is absolute garbage. 3) Text to speech is a really efficient way to proof-read. 4) A well... -
RK Wallis reacted to LJ Beck's post in the thread Craft Chat 5 Things you’ve learned writing ‘Book name” with Like.
It's hard to pick only 5 things I learned writing TGRA from the many things I learned, but these spring to mind... 1) It's okay to not know a lot of things about the story, or change a lot of things I thought I knew, when writing the first...
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RK Wallis reacted to Rich.'s post in the thread Craft Chat 5 Things you’ve learned writing ‘Book name” with Like.
There's so much here that rings true! Among them... I so agree with this. And this. And this was true for me as well. --- Five things I learned while writing my first and only completed novel, in ascending order of importance: 5) Writing...
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RK Wallis reacted to Hannah Faoileán's post in the thread Craft Chat 5 Things you’ve learned writing ‘Book name” with Love.
What my present WIP is teaching me, especially in relation to what I thought I knew about craft when writing my first novel: 1. You can write a great genre fiction story that will probably sell well once you are an established author, but to...
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RK Wallis reacted to RedSquiggle's post in the thread Craft Chat 5 Things you’ve learned writing ‘Book name” with Like.
1. You should've done this years ago, but self-limiting beliefs held you back. 2. Some of your beta readers will flake out, so send to more than the number you plan on getting feedback from. 3. Outlines are a nice insurance policy at the...
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Thank yu for posting RK. I like this too.
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I really connected with this teaching of writing:
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RK Wallis reacted to Pamela Jo's post in the thread Craft Chat Brandon Sanderson's new story structure free series with Like.
https://www.thebookseller.com/news/fairyloot-and-transworld-launch-new-fantasy-publishing-imprint
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RK Wallis reacted to Hannah Faoileán's post in the thread Thought for the Day To fly we have to.... with Like.
And we have to step off the safe ground.
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RK Wallis reacted to Paul Whybrow's post in the thread Thought for the Day To fly we have to.... with Like.
To fly we have to have resistance. Maya Lin