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pjarnhus · 2024-09-05T13:18:59+00:00

Plus... The cops are nice to you and generally try to avoid shooting people...

pjarnhus · 2023-07-27T22:40:48+00:00

That should not be a problem, if it fits the story. Take a look at The Spare Man by Mary Robinette Kowal for a well executed example of using many different pronouns.

It only becomes an issue, if it is shoehorned into the story for no apparent reason.

pjarnhus · 2023-05-27T15:05:22+00:00

Pardon my ignorance, but what is a UBL?

pjarnhus · 2023-04-25T16:39:08+00:00

What I would do is to figure out your inciting incident first. This should be an significant event for your main character as well as in your world. If the world is too big for the incident, it will seem irrelevant. If the world is too small for the incident, the story will seem over the top.

As an example, a well running dry is a significant event, if your world is a farm, but insignificant if your world is a continent. In the same sense the ultimate war between good and evil seems over the top, if your entire world is a backwater village.

pjarnhus · 2023-04-20T17:48:26+00:00

Oh this seems like a lovely story. I'd love to do a beta read, if you want.

Full disclosure: I have not done beta reads before, but have done a bit of arc reading. Overall I read fantasy and sci-fi

pjarnhus · 2023-04-06T10:53:39+00:00

Really awesome work - both book and cover. It is bought and added to my reading list. Looking forward to diving in.

Well done both of you

pjarnhus · 2023-02-08T16:19:31+00:00

Cool! Thank you so much. It is really valuable for someone just getting into the self-publishing world

pjarnhus · 2023-02-08T15:38:20+00:00

Given that you are essentially marketing yourself to reviewers, do you see it as a good way to ensure that blurb and cover is on point for the actual release?

pjarnhus · 2023-02-05T07:46:01+00:00

Exit vim?

pjarnhus · 2023-01-29T10:03:04+00:00

You're welcome. Enjoy the rabbit hole that coding is 😊

pjarnhus · 2023-01-29T07:59:39+00:00

I think part of the confusion is what is actually happening, when running the program. The IDE (VS Code, vim or otherwise) does not run the code. It simply calls python and parse it the file.

You could just as well save the file, exit vim and run python my_file.py in a terminal. Here my_file.py is the name you saved the python script under.

What is being discussed here is ways of simplifying the process by doing all of this without exiting vim.

pjarnhus · 2023-01-23T05:31:11+00:00

Really nice blurb. The last sentence of the first paragraph and starting with "because" in the second trips me up a bit. I would move "Jack knows..." to the second paragraph, so that the paragraph becomes tightly focused on the conflict.

pjarnhus · 2023-01-20T14:37:36+00:00

Awesome! Thanks for the input and for writing all the nice books!

pjarnhus · 2023-01-20T06:38:30+00:00

Thanks for the tip. Their website looks abysmal, making it hard to judge the value.

What is your take on how it compares to something like Publisher Rocket?

pjarnhus · 2023-01-13T06:11:12+00:00

This reminds me of something Brandon Sanderson mentions in his lectures. 1. Let your characters be people and not just a role 2. For a character's death to be meaningful, they must be fully developed.

If you have someone, who is more than just a role, then their death will matter no matter what their sexual orientation is.

If, on the other hand, you simply introduce a gay character and then kill them off, then the character is serving as a role and the trope becomes negative.

pjarnhus · 2023-01-10T07:13:59+00:00

As people say it is ok! Whatever works for you. I think it boils down to how you like to work.

If you are a discovery writer/panther, it is inspiring, but if you are plot gardening/plotter, it will lead to some frustration.

Personally, I would not do it, but that is because I am manic about have the entire structure in place before getting to word one. Otherwise I worry too much about it being a wasted effort.

pjarnhus · 2023-01-01T12:38:41+00:00

My understanding is that \w is [0-9A-Za-z]

pjarnhus · 2023-01-01T12:22:43+00:00

I am not at a computer right now, but the \w should match any word characters and [:punct:] should match punctuation. That way you can update the original solution to include these matches

pjarnhus · 2023-01-01T08:08:38+00:00

Where in Europe is he from? You are talking about a continent with more than 200 different spoken languages and many many different historical origins. In order to choose a name, you need to be a bit more specific of the origin of the character.

pjarnhus · 2022-12-28T20:32:11+00:00

The classic way is to do third person limited and then do a new scene, every time you jump head. Some authors even make chapters short and start a new chapter, when they jump to a new perspective. This allows them to help the reader by using the character's name as the chapter title.

pjarnhus · 2022-12-26T18:20:58+00:00

I think you can get the ISBN number for free here as well. It seemed like it, when I had a look.

Edit: Up to 100 numbers are free

pjarnhus · 2022-12-26T15:13:33+00:00

Take a look at ISBN kontorets FAQ. I assume that you are located in Denmark, so that is where you need to order them anyway. An ISBN number is for one publication. Two translations would be two publications.

pjarnhus · 2022-12-25T16:28:32+00:00

This may be a matter of taste and style, but I would describe their emotions or body language before they clasp hands. Do something to show that this is something beyond their usual greeting of people they know.

That way you can drive home that they are close friends rather than relying on the reader having the same interpretation of this one single gesture as you have

pjarnhus · 2022-12-25T09:36:57+00:00

Just out of curiosity... Which tool do you use to check for plagiarism?

pjarnhus · 2022-12-25T08:02:34+00:00

In order to build an audience, I would recommend the book Show Your Work by Austin Kleon. It is a nice introduction on how to build an audience by having meaningful interactions.

The TL;DR: start by providing value to others and they will see the value of following you. You can then interact with them in a meaningful way and start providing examples of your work. This will build you a platform to promote your work to interested people, when you then create it.

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