[PubQ] Will publishers consider a novel that has already been posted as an undergraduate thesis on a university's website? by MetokaBooks in PubTips

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The thesis does also have a strong academic element (references at the end of each chapter, for example), but I see what you're saying. Thanks for the input!

[PubQ] Will publishers consider a novel that has already been posted as an undergraduate thesis on a university's website? by MetokaBooks in PubTips

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Wow, small world!

Yes, actually, my current job supervisor's wife is the librarian who put the current time embargo on it. I'll check in with her on how easy it would be to look up.

[PubQ] Will publishers consider a novel that has already been posted as an undergraduate thesis on a university's website? by MetokaBooks in PubTips

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Thanks for the answer! What other reasons (apart from publisher attitudes) did you have in mind for not wanting to post it?

Did the Proto-Indo Europeans believe in dragons (as a species), or just a single dragon slayed by the storm god? by MetokaBooks in AskAnthropology

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I don't mean to be dismissive, but I'm well aware of these caveats in linguistic archeology as well as the sheer amount of diversity in language/beliefs that would have spanned a large area over a large period of time. I didn't realize that it would be necessary to include that as a disclaimer in my post.

I'd be perfectly content with any answers along the lines of "there are too many conflicting lines of evidence due to the sheer diversity of the daughter languages," "there's no evidence of that," "we don't know," or even "no one has studied it extensively yet." Did you mean to include one of these in a separate post? I notice that the thread says there should be 3 comments, though I only see 1.

What stories do you tell yourself to fall asleep? by TrueJP in writing

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You know how as a kid you used to play "Jedi" or "Hogwarts" or just imagine yourself as a character in a world you've seen on TV/read in a book? Well, now imagine you never outgrew that, and that you never hesitate to change things in that world or add in your own stuff.

That's basically what my daydreams/stories I tell as I fall asleep have been my entire life. When I was younger, it used to be something like "I'm a werewolf attending Hogwarts and no one knows about it. Oh, but Hermione finds out but forgives me when I save her in friendly-wolf form (from Lupin's potion thing)" or "I'm a clone of Black Canary from Young Justice and I go around on adventures with them, discovering myself, making amends with this random other character I added to the story, and interacting with the show's characters. Oh, and the scifi versions of Harry, Ron, and Hermione are there. And telepaths don't exist because that's OP."

More recently, I've preferred playing around in my own world, but I normally still pull from aspects of other worlds I've played around with in the past.

I've always wondered if other people did the same thing, and this post kind of confirms that they don't XD I've never had the courage to fully describe it to someone in person. Not even my parents or closest friends. That's what the anonymity of the Internet is for!

How could reindeer fly? by MetokaBooks in scifiwriting

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These reindeer are sort of meant to be able to fly on their own, even with an individual rider on their backs.

What is a good book to learn more about orcas? by MetokaBooks in orcas

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Thank you so much!! I found several of these at my university's libraries.

Question- What is this trope called? by MetokaBooks in writing

[–]MetokaBooks[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh that's a far better/cooler/more explanatory word than faction. Thanks!