Writerly Ways

[cornerofmadness]

I have no words. I'm angry because a tick burrowed into my neck. I'm tired because it's 90+ so I'll just say this a) need to do my blurbs for my novella. I hate this b) my novella edits will be here soon OMG save me c) someone did an art claim on my Buffy story so I need to finish that thing for wipbigbang d) need to finish my Prodigal SOn one too not to mention my fandomtrumpshate story.

Also I signed up for fandomgiftbox (today is the last day) in spite of myself. I saw one other Prodigal Son person who really supports me on AO3 so...

So another year of nothing but fanfic (I'm almost at 200K of fanfic this year.)

Here have some links

from around the wed Make Readers Stop And Go “Wow!”

What To Include On Your Book’s Copyright Page

Know Where To Sell Books

From Betty Setting The Pace

Marketing Your Book From the Heart of Your Brand

Harsh Does Not Equal Honest: Pick Your Beta Readers Carefully Boy I can attest to this even within publishing houses. Once I DID have to say never again to my publisher. On Blood Red Roulette my first editor loved it, got it etc, the second editor was locked into Dracula as the only vampire novel and didn't get it and the third was cruel utterly vicious and I complained, first time in a decade I had to.

Does your story need that extra pov character

How Do I Describe Fat Characters Respectfully?

Five Over-Burdened Stories and How to Fix Them

Three Factors in Success

How to Write an Author Bio: A Proven Guide with Examples

Comments

[alexseanchai]

ticks suuuuuck

…there's only about an hour left to sign up for fandomgiftbox so I think it is time to concede I will not be signing up for that this year

[cornerofmadness]

ticks suck hard, no pun intended

I almost didn't sign up, probably shouldn't have but ah well

[enemytosleep]

I went to add a DNW to my fandomgiftbox sign up and managed to delete the whole thing, so that's fun. xD I sent the mods a message in the hopes they have a copy of it in their inbox. If not I guess that's what I get for trying to add a no incest tag.

[enemytosleep]

It occurred to me that despite the nature my original requests, I was asking for fic with a set of twins, and we all know how the internet works.

[cornerofmadness]

oh dear. My requests are so vague

[enemytosleep]

Mine are pretty open as well, but the one request for ensemble fic includes a set of twins who are often shipped together, and I belatedly realized I should specify please not to do that if you answer that prompt. xD

[cornerofmadness]

I hear you. I went back in and put no incest on mine before I got father/son stuff.

[cornerofmadness]

oh lord. oops, good luck and man I didn't remember to add no incest either. Dammit. I'm not even sure if mine have been accepted

[enemytosleep]

Well they replied back to me and they had a copy! So I was able to add no incest and they will get that posted sometime this week. I was prepared to forgo a treat because I did not feel like rewriting the whole thing.

If you have a comment on the sign up post you're good; they'll get it posted sometime before Friday. If you want to add No Incest, you need to go to the sign up post and reply to your sign up comment with the changes so that they can get that added.

[cornerofmadness]

Oh good I'm glad it got fixed. I did get mine fixed so thanks.

[spikedluv]

Ticks are the worst! Disgusting little critters. *shudder*

[cornerofmadness]

they are SO gross

[thenewbuzwuzz]

Oooh, those links look tasty! Thanks! :)

[cornerofmadness]

You're welcome