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Thunderdome is probably the answer to your particular dilemma.
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Mercedes posted:There was a discussion awhile back aboot world building and why you shouldn't make your audience suffer by cramming out into their eyeballs. Anyone got a link to that article? Probably one of DocK's, I'll have a look. e: Sorry man, i couldn't find it - here's Doctor Kloctopussy's posts in the thread, it might not be in there but you can't go wrong by reading them anyway 
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Jul 24, 2016 08:24
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Yes, definitely post it in a thread of its own.
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Jul 28, 2016 13:06
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HIJK posted:I think Stephen King said once that the key to horror is taking something and asking "how can I make this worse?" And then ratcheting that up over the course of the story. Carrie is about bullying, and Pet Semetary is about grief, and those are really mundane concepts really. Threaten a character we care about.
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Jul 30, 2016 02:52
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There's a free clone of scrivener, name escapes me though. It's probably what you're looking for.
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Aug 18, 2016 21:58
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Sitting Here posted:someone should do the world a favor and burn my writing, but lol it's in the cloud He was afraid someone would steal his ideas
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Sep 17, 2016 22:04
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anime was right posted:how do yall get feedback on your books. i dont know any like writer groups or anything that would be willing to trade me reading their garbage for mine. do i just use like meetup.com or something or what tinder
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Naerasa posted:I did the same thing. Tindr is also good though, especially since you can get double the value by getting valuable feedback on sex. Show don't tell
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Sep 23, 2016 08:31
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Keromaru5 posted:I went to a critique group's monthly meeting last night, only to find out I'd misread the schedule. It was actually on Tuesday. if you want to write, you must also read it is very important
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vintagepurple posted:Hey fiction thread. I've been trawling through this thread off-and-on and am still a good 2 years behind, but I wanted to say, at the tail end of a lovely relationship I drunkenly stumbled upon this thread and somehow it convinced me to take writing, an old dream, seriously instead of writing myself off (lol). I've been doing Writing Excuses prompts, flash fiction, and trying to hit 1000 words a day. The occasional short story, trying to work myself up to being decent, and mulling book ideas once I feel I can tackle that. Somehow my love of writing and english has translated into finding my calling and now I'm poised to actually finish my degree and then either tackle a law school or medieval lit academia track later on. This is after six years of job-and-school drifting and being inspired and driven is foreign to me. So thanks thread. crits that aren't praise are always terrifying, but always good, because you want to be better. we all do.
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Oct 25, 2016 12:55
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punk rebel ecks posted:So I've been typing up this story for a while that I plan on turning into a comic when I'm done with it. Do I post what I have so far (it's written so far) on here? make a thread, then come back and link it here.
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Oct 29, 2016 05:24
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SkaAndScreenplays posted:With regards to it not 'feeling fresh' I can say that constantly poking and prodding with little changes and tune-ups has definitely resulted in my better TD stories. maybe just fix your regular errors one at a time? i think the only recurring errors with your last one were the sentence fragments (which can be used with care) and dialogue punctuation (," he said.). they're easy to check for in your last read.
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Nov 4, 2016 01:32
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General Battuta posted:There's nothing to bloat your wordcount like a protagonist who pauses after every loving line of dialogue to consider possible hidden meanings, clues about secret alliances, and ramifications for the grand global conspiracy late_gene_wolfe.txt
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Nov 8, 2016 06:16
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Here's another reading, Kaishai's For LifeBeige posted:This is wonderful. Both the story and the reading. Please say there are more. thanks - happy to read stories on request
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Nov 12, 2016 14:57
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Surreptitious Muffin just posted a new fiction farm thread, so if you've got something short you've been sitting on then chuck it in there for a crit.
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Nov 21, 2016 08:10
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Mag7 you are sort of asking WHAT IS THE X FACTOR and apart from saying it's maybe literary (novel as art) vs genre (novel as predictable unit of entertainment) it really comes down to amazing writers writing amazing books. Writing the book you want to read is a good start, I guess?
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anime was right posted:im not reading you on this, is this a joke? He is serious books are p bad my friend
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