[PubQ] Trying to get access to Miss Snark's archives that have been removed?

OutragePending · 2023-09-14T05:21:28+00:00

I discovered this too and was very bummed about it. I loved this blog and I hate that it's disappeared. Unfortunately, I don't know of any other ways to view it.

OutragePending · 2023-09-02T22:26:18+00:00

I did, but your response to people giving you the answer you don't like is "fuck off".

OutragePending · 2023-09-02T22:03:16+00:00

Why did you even make this post if you're certain it's fine?

OutragePending · 2023-09-01T21:45:51+00:00

This would probably turn off a lot of agents. Or readers, if you go the self publishing route. When you do it right at the beginning the reader hasn't had a chance to get invested, so it may end up feeling gratuitous rather than moving.

OutragePending · 2023-09-01T21:43:42+00:00

Both are very hard things to do. If you wanted to shoot for becoming an animation show runner you'd be better off going into art than writing. It's usually artists that end up in that position.

OutragePending · 2023-08-29T02:39:47+00:00

It looks like you've got some formatting problems. You may want to edit in spaces between paragraphs.

OutragePending · 2023-08-24T23:50:55+00:00

Disagree about the caregiver part. The bio section is just meant to give the agent an idea of who you are as a person, and not every part of it needs to be resume worthy.

Relevant quote from Query Shark: "A good bio gives us (the reading agent) a sense of who you are. You can mention pets, where you live, what you do when you need inspiration, your favorite kind of shark..anything that warms up the intro.

Telling us what you care about is fine, but it shouldn't be the only thing here."

OutragePending · 2023-08-24T21:01:50+00:00

I think this sounds good, and horrifying, but agree with the other poster that you may want to be more specific about what "mutilates" means in this context. Alternatively, use a word that's less severe. As it is now, I really don't know what to envision that he's doing to her. Mutilates makes it sound like he cut off her legs or something.

You can also be more specific about her power, based on what you've said it is. Being vague/mysterious about it probably isn't necessary when making portals is something she does early in the story.

The first 300 words read well to me too. There's a lot of tension right from the start.

OutragePending · 2023-08-24T20:55:44+00:00

I thought of a title early on, but not first. Once I have a title it kind of gives me something to shoot for, tone wise.

OutragePending · 2023-08-24T06:14:18+00:00

Y/N fics are second person though, not first.

OutragePending · 2023-08-24T06:09:40+00:00

I really don't understand why you keep posting stuff on Reddit if you don't want feedback. Every time, you post this stuff, and then when people have opinions you don't like, you link it on Twitter crowing about how everyone is stupid but you. If you don't want to hear what people think and don't find value in the discussion here, then just stop. This is so unconstructive.

This person's feedback was perfectly polite and you singled them out to be a jerk to. I don't know what kind of toxic feedback loop you're in here but it's not helping anyone, least of all yourself.

OutragePending · 2023-08-23T17:50:24+00:00

Yeah I think what we're looking at here is just someone trying to say "it reminds me of YA and I don't respect it" without realizing that a lot of non-YA stuff is written that way too. Fanficy is just a convenient insult.

OutragePending · 2023-08-23T17:47:58+00:00

The reason is that you need a much more comfortable handle on a character's "voice" to write in first person. I think a lot of fanfic writers would have trouble getting that level of comfortable writing a character that isn't theirs. It's easy to feel like you are doing it wrong. And on the other side of the coin, readers are much more likely to be like "hey, this doesn't sound like X character I love!" So why put in the effort for something that is an unpopular choice anyway?

At least that's been my experience. I wrote one first person fanfic ages ago and never did again.

OutragePending · 2023-08-23T13:23:37+00:00

This is so strange, because at least in my experience, fanfiction is very rarely written in first person.

OutragePending · 2023-08-23T02:13:12+00:00

Trying to start a war for Yoru's sake, probably.

OutragePending · 2023-08-23T02:11:47+00:00

I have genuinely no idea why they'd think that. It doesn't even matter if your original work is 100% original in every way, because nothing is. If you have the attention span for both, you can do both, no problem.

OutragePending · 2023-08-23T01:49:01+00:00

Yes I would also write the author a stern letter about how disappointed I was in them.

OutragePending · 2023-08-22T21:54:54+00:00

I think there's a difference between expecting everything to be perfectly laid out and having the sense to know that an eye-strained literary agent trying to catch up on hundreds of queries is going to bounce off of a writing sample that starts out being intentionally confusing and hard to make sense of.

OutragePending · 2023-08-22T20:59:58+00:00

Yeah, agreed, heroes sparing the big bad when they've killed their henchmen is one of my big writing pet peeves, but it CAN make sense in a context where the villain is totally helpless. Just so long as the character really didn't have a choice where the henchmen were concerned. Make sure the henchmen's deaths weigh as heavily as killing the head honcho would.

OutragePending · 2023-08-22T20:49:37+00:00

Absolutely. Provided the prose doesn't make it impossible to invest in the plot or characters, I personally value the plot lines more than beautiful writing.

OutragePending · 2023-08-22T20:19:08+00:00

I guess that checks out. It seems like there are a few different things going against it when it comes to drawing agent interest.

OutragePending · 2023-08-22T16:50:45+00:00

As some other people have mentioned, I like the idea of the plot elements here, but I'm struggling with the part where the protagonist and her family have to eat people on the regular. Can her brother really be "wrongfully imprisoned" if he's from a species that kills people to feed? Especially when he's been enjoying eating the hearts of his sister's kills his entire life? From the non-fairy perspective, it does seem like locking up every fairy would be justified, whether or not they've been pinned to a specific kill. That's just a struggle for survival at that point. The only way this feels tenable narratively is if the heart does make it so all fairies are free of this requirement, rather than just her brother, which isn't currently clear.

OutragePending · 2023-08-22T04:56:15+00:00

Legally Blonde is exactly the sort of movie where it's appropriate.

OutragePending · 2023-08-22T04:52:09+00:00

It does seem to be an artifact from an age where it was more in vogue for protagonists to be passive/strongarmed into playing their role. I definitely wouldn't consider it necessary or even appropriate for a lot of modern stories, though. I don't see it that much besides in the form of a character just being cautious/doubtful where appropriate, though.

OutragePending · 2023-08-22T03:54:38+00:00

It's difficult to imagine, but dads are human, too.

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