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  1. ValerieJLong

    Good Dark Fantasy Books?

    Currently I follow Lilith Saintcrow's Dante Valentine-series. Might be worth a check, too.
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    Description help?

    Well - the unwarned reader doesn't know yet that the mountains shall be important (shall they?). So it's quite okay just to mention them. It's not their time yet. Fine. If you need to stress their haunted-ness, use the good old show-don't-tell. Things will happen, and the reader may remember...
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    viability of an idea

    Well, automatic watches collect energy from moving wrists, too. You can as well collect static electricity from the clothing, but as the other posters already pointed out, that's so marginal nobody would bother to try. Is that so? Okay, I know of at least one science fiction writer using the...
  4. ValerieJLong

    need a sci fi writer

    I thought the ultimate Grand Statement was TANSTAAFL*? * There Aint No Such Thing As A Free Lunch (Stolen from Robert A Heinlein)
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    Formatting/software issues

    Hi, if you're looking for a software specifically for authors, why don't you check Papyrus? About Papyrus OFFICE in English It is not free, but not very expensive either. The very successful German author Andreas Eschbach (afaik not translated to English) recommends it - I haven't tried myself...
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    Formatting/software issues

    I'm talking of good German hyphenation versus bad German hyphenation. Well, basically you can do hyphenation based on syllables or based on trivial rules (like "always before a consonant"). The latter may render some crazy results. What would you think of "concent-rated"? My OpenOffice would...
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    Formatting/software issues

    One thing, about your problem - when I'm done writing, I can just change the indent and line spacing for the paragraph format "standard", and with a few clicks each and all my paragraphs look as they should. The idea of doing that manually, i.e., adding five keystrokes on the space bar...
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    Robert Heinlein: Starship Troopers

    The fights will come in time.
  9. ValerieJLong

    Need a new book to read...any recommendations?

    Thinking about it again, there's Mary Gentle's Ash, A Secret History. It is far off the beaten tracks, that's what I liked about it. Cheers Val
  10. ValerieJLong

    Patrick Rothfuss-The Name Of The Wind-Book one of The King Killer Chronicles

    I've read it, too. It has been too long though... and I don't have time to re-read. *sigh*
  11. ValerieJLong

    New extract part 2

    I am puzzled by this choice of tense in the first paragraph. I understand there soon follows a flashback, but this evil thought makes me pause.
  12. ValerieJLong

    A possible prologue

    To be honest, I read until "Look at the poem above ...", which broke my attention. The first two paragraphs were okay, even attracting, but I became impatient, wanted to shout "tell me the story, don't beat around the bush any longer" at the narrator. This may depend on taste and even on the...
  13. ValerieJLong

    Risky plot move?

    Dave Eddings did it - there's the Belgariad, six books in a sequence, with more than one main character, but mainly it's focusing around one char, Garion. Eddings wrote more or less the same story again twice, once from the viewpoint of Belgarath, once from the viewpoint of Polgara, each time...
  14. ValerieJLong

    So what are we all reading in June, then?

    I have a pile of "Black Dagger" waiting.
  15. ValerieJLong

    Discussing the Writing Challenges -- November and December 2010

    re: Discussing the Writing Challenges -- April, May, & June @Teresa: Quite capturing, but yes, the end is not entirely clear. Seems I've missed some things.:cool: You could look forward to NaNoWriMo - 50k in one month?
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    Maybe time for May reading thread ...

    Teresa, will you smoothly lead us to the June reading thread? :)
  17. ValerieJLong

    The Best Science Fiction Character of ALL TIME

    My favorite in books: David Weber's Alicia DeVries (In Fury Born) Movies: can't think someone up that's not mentioned a hundred times yet.
  18. ValerieJLong

    Need a new book to read...any recommendations?

    G'day, oneredfrog, you might check: Elizabeth Haydon's Rhapsody series Jennifer Fallon's Demon Child trilogy Eddings' Belgariad and Malloreon saga (perhaps starting with Belgarath the Sorcerer) Those are quite epic and will keep you busy reading for a while. Cheers Valerie
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    The Ongoing Saga of the "Hobbit" movie...

    re: The Ongoing Saga of the "Hobbit" movie... Hmm - as far as discussion goes, I can as well throw in Roland Emmerich (Godzilla, Independence Day, Stargate). At least he'll make Smaug look truly big.
  20. ValerieJLong

    Publishing/writing online - help needed!

    ...hmmm What I like most about online publishing is the immediate feedback from readers. It's quite rewarding to see their reactions - cheers, okay, but also valuable questions and critique. That's quite a difference to placing a book out in the wild and then eventually have occasional...
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