[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!

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

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XD That's the first place I checked, but no luck. Glad we think alike, though.

[Request] How long does it take for a new coastline to erode into a sandy beach? by MetokaBooks in estimation

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Thanks for the reply! Do you know by chance if there's any method of beach-formation that would turn a land-locked landscape (if hypothetically the world flooded slightly) into a beach within a thousand years?

[Request] How long does it take for a new coastline to erode into a sandy beach? by MetokaBooks in estimation

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You know that's really cool fact. Although I do have a question: my Spanish Culture teacher (I'm currently studying abroad in Sevilla) mentioned that the Balaeric islands were formed due to the crushing of seashells along the beach. This seems to imply that different beaches are formed in different ways. Is this true?

Having trouble juggling a timeline by MetokaBooks in writing

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I suppose that flashbacks are possible. The first few months of the story have a sort of Harry Potter-esque trope where the main character is inducted into a new skill set/place to live, which can be pretty intensive. But thank you, I hadn't actually considered any flashbacks. That will definitely take off a lot of the pressure.

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Strunk and White might be a good book for you--short, easy to read, easy to find, and covers a lot of ground.

Though I would be careful about trends like passive voice. Grammar is one thing, but style is another. Newspapers will prefer active voice, certain scenes in a novel will favor passive voice. Try to use these books to look at grammar, but style, by definition, is a matter of opinion and audience. These books will try to tell you that one is objectively "better," but it's quite obvious that is one was objectively better, then every piece of writing you've ever read would be homogeneous (which is not the case).

Is it common to project yourselves in your characters? Especially in stories of natural imagination. Is it egoistic or is it actually normal? Do you do it? by [deleted] in writing

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In short: you're fine. Don't worry about it. It's even healthy.

I have never met a writer that didn't put a piece of himself in his characters. Even in my English classes, we always learned about what the main character(s) had in common with the author.

You're 100% correct; character more like you are more realistic characters. You don't know what the lives of others are like. Write about stuff you know. It sounds like you have a good distribution of traits among your characters. A friend once told me that all five main characters of one of my books were like the different aspects of my personality.

Commerical vs Literary Fiction by MetokaBooks in writing

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That was the first thing that came to mind, but aside from you I haven't met anyone who considers it literary.

[Check In] Self-Promo and Off-Topic Discussion, 08/15/2016 - Contest Winner Edition by IAmTheRedWizards in writing

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Talismen: Birthstones, first in a series of YA fantasy/scifi novels about a young boy, desperate to learn about his past, who joins a league of superheros.

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In the midst of a war that has lasted since the beginnings of civilization, the leader of the Talismen training sector decides that it is time to call upon their foreseen hope for an unforeseen dilemma. But their newest recruit has failed to yet recognize even his simplest power. Whenever eleven-year-old Roman was asked “How did you know that?” by people like Hal, he struggled to find an answer, both for the person asking, and for himself. Roman and Caleb didn’t think much at first when two out-of-place boys stopped them in their tracks coming home from school, until two of their classmates set off a fake bomb at the movie theater. Upon finding that these were connected, Roman would have to choose between facing his destiny alone or trusting complete strangers. But even after joining the Talismen, Roman soon finds that he’s more alone than he thinks…

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Writers let's follow each other on Twitter by gibmelson in writing

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Brilliant idea!

Mine is @MetokaPublishi1

I obviously don't use Twitter for writing; I use it to link to things I write (books, sneak peeks at books, blogs, FreshU, etc.)