Recent content by Mytherea

Super-fast breakdown of story word count lengths and labels. Different sources will sometimes give you different answers, but for the most part, most SF/F/H traditional markets follow these: Less than 1,000 words = Flash. Usually. Sometimes, it wavers within the 500's (so, >500-1,500...

Just finished Bujold's Sharing Knife series. I enjoyed it. Perhaps not as much as Chalion, but I enjoyed it. It was different. It was sweet. People on Goodreads, however, seem less than thrilled, particularly with the romantic elements so up-front. I was just pleased everyone lived and got happy...

Okay, so, first off, as a reader, I tend to skip the prologue when I'm browsing books, only because prologues often are written with a different tone or voice, and might not be reflective of what I'm signing up for in the rest of the book. So I glance at the first line or two, then flip to...

Dunno if it counts as an easter egg, per say, but in my last book, an urban fantasy, I have a PoV character (a police detective and a casual gamer) bitten by what he thinks is a werewolf. He then spends the full moon tied to his defunct radiator, playing Skyrim on his Xbox (my head-cannon has...

Apologies for assuming you were at a different place in your novel than you are. I hadn't realized this was a more finalized draft. Hrm. Well, you could try tweaking some of the metaphors/similes in your descriptions so that they more clearly stem from the character's viewpoint/experience...

So I'm of the opinion that the character's voice stems from more than just their personality traits. It's also their experiences, their upbringing, where they work, and so on, and I'm wondering if this voice issue comes from not having a solid idea of how his past has influenced his present...

While not specifically for writing, I've used DeviantArt, mostly when I was just starting, but I occasionally still put up stuff that, for whatever reason, I deem okay to share but nowhere near good enough to revise for submission. The community there can be close, but there are quite a few...

Just finished The Custodian of Marvels by Rod Duncan. It's good, but I forgot so much since I read the first and second books, like, two years ago, so I think it probably works best as a binge-read trilogy (which I might reread someday). Now I'm reading Borderline by Mishell Baker and, so far...

'Cause content characters are, often, boring, imo. They're content, so they're not going to go out of their way to be uncomfortable, so one of the few ways to make a content character uncomfortable would be to have an external force push on them--but inherently, they'll then stop being content...

I suppose if the viewer stuck their hand in the hologram and found it intangible, they might think it's a ghost/spirit?

Also, just a small note, but specificity. Try not to censor the fun stuff with vagueness. You mention that there are never before seen creatures prowling the shadows, but what kind. Dragons? Eldritch horrors that drive humans insane should they look on them? Demons? Centaurs or some other form...

Both? Is that an option? Okay, I know it's an option, but if I were to pick one or the other, I lean a little more toward outlining, but my outlines don't quite look like traditional outlines. They're more like a stream-of-consciousness journal I do alongside whatever I'm writing. Since I often...

I'm by far no expert, just did a lot of research for my last book on gut wounds, but from what I remember, it depends where it's located. If, say, if the wound is a stab-wound or a gunshot wound that nicks or severs one of the major arteries around the kidneys or the ones running alongside the...

@Caged Maiden: This is where I wish the agent in question had a blog. The only resources are a few interviews, the newest from a few months ago. They don't have a very large online presence, but I've read a couple books they've represented, far more that the agency as a whole represents, but...

@skip.knox: Yeah, I'd been having the same thought, but wasn't going to say. And now that you rephrase it that way, it does sound like a really silly question, doesn't it? Since reading your comment yesterday, I've been working on countering my internal dialogue about this, rephrasing it as...