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So, has anyone else actually got a book/pamphlet/chapbook printed up and tried to sell it themselves, book by book? No Kindle, no publisher, no simplicity, no core...

It's not my bag, but; - Do Marines really talk like that? All the time? It just sounds cliched. - Would a minigun 'shred' an access hatch?Even a weak one? Why is someone, even military, walking around an orbital with access to high-powered projectile weaponry. - MindWar Division? Even PsyOps is...

I would stop reading here. If you halt a cloning process, then you get an aborted foetus.

If it's bad, it goes. I don't see how else anyone can work. You write, you re-write. If it's not on the page then it's in your head.

Well, I'm in my mid-30s so I'm not sure if I'm still 'finding myself'. I do like straigh-down-the-line ('easy') fiction (I plough through WH40K books, after all) but I can't see myself saying that it's important or improving. I sound really stern and humourless here...

I find this interesting. I'm of the belief that the medium can be the message, if the medium is interesting enough. Maybe I spent too much of my childhood reading too many roleplaying rule books that I actually like piecing together stories from short elements that have huge gaps in the plot...

As an exercise, I tried to re-write the text with punctuation. I didn't like it. It gives the character a greater sense of coherence than I want them to have (as this is meant to represent thought, not speech). However... I do have a piece which is a similar character (or possibly the same...

I'm thinking more of the opposite; writing something, wondering whether you should second-guess whether a potential reader will think of it as being too difficult and then re-writing (possibly) against your initial ideas.

This goes back to the 'should reading be easy' line, I think. I don't want it to look less daunting. I live in a part of Edinburgh where it is very likely that, when wandering around the streets, you will be accosted by someone who talks not very much differently from the wall of text above...

"I'm not sure I believe that reading should necessarily be easy for the reader." I made this statement in one of my critique threads and I was wondering what other people thought. Do you try and make your writing easy for Dear Reader to understand? Do you want reading to be easy when you read...

I don't understand how you would do that. How do you know how easy the reader wants it? I read 'easy' books all the time, as I have a long commute to work, but they're not memorable. Everything's laid out and described and then I put the book away and it's done. Why should I think about it...

I do think that, like much block-text, it's harder to read on-screen than on a piece of paper but I'm also not sure I believe that reading should necessarily be easy for the reader. Which leads me onto... I look at them more as conventions than rules, I have to admit, and feel that once you...

So Qing is a hybrid assassin?

If that's the case then I'm confused by this bit...

I think it's actually the 't' in 'don't' which is wrong. 'E don' fink posh see? Ah, but surely the story in itself tells you that ignorance is no excuse...;) I like Trainspotting more for how it's written than what the story says, I have to admit. And I'm English so, possibly, I'm not sure I...

Why is the assassin called Qing when everyone else seems to have fairly Western names?

First line of the excerpt or first line or my introduction...;) And I'm not sure why 'johnnies boots' seems to sometimes hyperlink to a shopping site. That seems to be happening automatically.

I have to admit I found it hard to get past 'Big Dog' without waiting for some this-is-a-parody giveaway. It's not badly written but I just found it to be uninteresting, I'm afraid. I'm very much aware that's due to my own personal tastes, however.

OK, from disinterested third-party narrators to a POV stream of (un)consciousness, as an experiment in vernacular and self-dialogue. Tick - Street slang for a vagrant. Varying degrees of intent from friendly to highly offensive. Self-deprecating in this instance. Tin - Street slang for members...

Yes, of course. Imagine that the pencil is made of jelly/jello*. If you pushed one ened then you'd expect there to be some deformation of the pencil, you might even see it. A wooden pencil is more rigid than jelly/jello but it is not perfectly rigid; there would be less deformation but there...