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Okay, so it looks like I’m still getting a lot of publishing questions. These are recurrent questions I get on a regular basis, and while I want to try to respond to everyone who reaches out to me, I don’t want my blog becoming redundant. So I think I’m going to repost this on a weekly basis from now on to help people navigate … Read More The Ins and Outs of Publishing, A Directory of Advice.
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Hi Jim, I was wondering if you could describe your dragons in a little bit greater detail. Are they like the dragons from the Hobbit or Game of Thrones, or are they something else altogether? I’m really fascinated by dragon lore and wanted to get your take on them. Thanks, Nick Hello Nick, To be honest, I’m not really a fan of the design … Read More Dragons… the Ins and Outs.
by Jim
Okay, so it looks like I’m still getting a lot of publishing questions. These are recurrent questions I get on a regular basis, and while I want to try to respond to everyone who reaches out to me, I don’t want my blog becoming redundant. So I think I’m going to repost this on a weekly basis from now on to help people navigate … Read More The Ins and Outs of Publishing, A Directory of Advice.
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Hi Jim, I was wondering if you talk a little bit about how you create characters for your book. I’ve got an awesome idea for a story, but I’m having a hard time creating characters to go along with it. Do you have any advice? Thanks, Kris Hello Kris, In my personal opinion, you’re doing this backward. You’ve got a great story, but no … Read More Characters First, Stories Second.
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Drear Jim, I hope this finds you in good spirits! I was hoping you could help me out a little bit here. I’ve heard a lot of people talking about registering a work for copyright. There doesn’t seem to be a consensus as to whether or not you need to do it. Should I register my work or not? Thanks, Alex Hello Alex, Good … Read More To Register or Not to Register?
by Jim
I’m going to start off by saying that I’m aware that a lot of people are going to disagree with me on this one, but I find the idea of writing about time travel daunting. Why, you may ask? Because it’s a headache. Think about it, literally thousands of books addressing the problems of time travel in stories have been written. Some really good, … Read More Time Travel and Why You Shouldn’t Write About It!
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Hi Jim, As a fellow writer, I was wondering if you’ve ever reread your books and wished you could go back and change something. Like maybe the direction of a story or something like that. I’ve had a book published for a few years, and now that it’s done, I look back on it and have come up with a few different scenarios that … Read More The ‘What-if’ scenarios
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I think a lot of people are going to disagree with me on this one, and that’s fine. I don’t mind, in fact, I’d love to hear from you. However, in my view, fantasy romance stories are incredibly one-sided. What do I mean by that? Well simply that in romantic stories that involve a human and either supernatural elements or fantastic creatures (Elves, Dwarves, … Read More Opinion: Fantasy Romance is One-Sided.
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Hi Jim, How do you handle situations where you have two different ways a character can go? Right now, I’m sitting on a plot line where one of my characters is sitting at a crossroad. He can either choose to help the people he cares about or leave them to their own devices in order to save the bigger group. I’m not sure where … Read More Divergence In Storylines, Where to Go?
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Hi Jim, I wanted to ask you about one of your characters. I’m working on my own YA series and finished reading Magnifica a while ago. You mention in the book that Lia’na doesn’t age as fast as Toby. If they survive, she’ll roughly be the elven equivalent of a human’s late 40s when he dies. I really think that if you leave the … Read More Age Compatability in Characters (MAGNIFICA SPOILER WARNING!!)
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Hi Jim, I was hoping you could give me a little advice on how to write perspective. The main character in my story is going to be a bad guy. When I say bad, I mean the story is going to revolve around the villain. I’m just really not sure how I can write that effectively. I mean typically you try to get people … Read More Rooting for the Bad Guy
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Hi Jim, I was hoping you could help me here. I have a series of short stories that I’ve published and have a niche following on a couple of sites. I recently decided to take the story in a new direction and killed off the main character. It turns out that this character was a lot more popular than I thought. Now I’m getting … Read More The “Misery” Effect
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