writerly ways

[cornerofmadness]

Actually that's over on jana_denardo today where I talk about sex scenes AND actually have other people talking about it. At least I've accomplished something with that.

My other thought is just because some critics are saying it, doesn't make it true. I was thinking about how I keep hearing mysteries from Scandinavia are the best written this last decade. I've read a dozen of more different authors in that category, all highly recommended and most were just plain (to me) awful. I got to wondering who decides these things? Practically all of them are terribly depressing and dark and I think what makes this better than anything from the UK or America? I have no answer.

I am also thinking about one of the links below when it talks about telling agents/editors who your book resembles. that if you can't do that, you don't know the lingo and aren't with the time. My very first thought was I HATE that. I've seen tons of goodreads/amazon reviewers (i.e. the regular reader) who hate it too. I guess it's one thing to say to an agent, this book is along the lines of Maggie Stiefvater's Raven Boys or is like Jim Butcher's work etc but I think to have it in a blurb it a) sounds pretentious and b) sets up unrealistic expectations because I see reivew after review concentrating more on the how the book was nothing like JK Rowling's work than what the book was actually about.

So how about those links.
Jana's thoughts on writing sex scenes


4 deadly mistakes

Judging by the comments I'm not the only one who has problems with some of this advice. how to distinguish yourself among agents and editors

marketing on twitter not much new here but there were one or two things I want to be able to find later.



And I did want to say this: the Sterling Archer for President T-shirt I got from Loot Crate was a hit with one of the stockers at Krogers. She loved it.

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[kerkevik-2014.livejournal.com]

One of the links is getting the irreperable treatment. Going to checkout the writing sex scenes link now.

kerk

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

thanks. I didn't notice it. Head desk. I'll fix them tonight