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The kind folks that have taken the trouble to download and probably copied my shit. Thank you. However, I am asking for a review of said shit.
Why?
I need to know where to improve? What you hated? Why you believe I am hack. All that shit. Give it to me. I need the motivation to refine my shit.
Examples
Do you love it do you hate it. Please share your thoughts here or elsewhere on the internet or your own spot. I wrote this series as a semi-experiment and love letter to love of the Harry Potter series and action movies of the 1990s. I would love to hear your thoughts good, bad or you are a mad mad genius.
A few comments, blog post. Whatever you like. If you would be so kind please. Share your thoughts with me especially if you got smoke for me. I like the smoke.
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Since you want assessments of your writing, I will give you the negative as well as the positive.
The positive is that your writing shines with energy and originality and is well-developed from a character stance.
The one big negative is that the writing doesn’t read like a book. I have a similar flaw in my own attempts at writing books for the New York literary agents’ market. My work didn’t READ LIKE A BOOK. It was too unique, too idiosyncratic — too narrow. We both suffered from the same defect, Guardian Dogg. Try and copy books you like and see if you can make your prose match theirs. If you can do that, you will be well on your way to being published.
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I hear you on that point. I have make my work more generic and dumber. If I want to sell to the general public. No. I’m not being insulting toward you when I write this. I’m being straight up.
That is modern fiction even movies are like this. I have to fit it in a genre that sells and remove any sense of originality. You have to feel and know where the book is going and there ar3 no surprises and the vocabulary is below highschool level reading level. I understand it. I read the modern fiction that sold millions.
To make a millions I have to write a romance novel with genius female beautiful and muscled hero alpha type CEO or king dark and dangerous. They are fated lovers fighting evil villain have wild pornographic sex and happily ever after. The story would be spelled out in the first paragraph if not the first two pages of the story.
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No, you’re drawing the entirely wrong lesson from my comment.
Books like NAME OF THE ROSE by Professor Umberto Eco of Italy sell in the millions, and books like A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME by Professor Stephen Hawking of Britain sells well as well, because they meet an intelligent need. I’m not say intelligence is necessary, but it’s not a deal-killer you make it out to be.
The problem is you’re going to have to go to New York City, hat in hand, to appease the literary agents that your work is good. THEY ARE GOING TO IGNORE YOU UNLESS IT READS LIKE A **FUCKING** NOVEL!!!!! I’ve already made that mistake more than once; don’t you repeat my error.
And again, the reader DOES like surprises and twists. They advertise that on the covers of enough goddamn novels. So don’t give me that.
Guardian Dogg, I strongly suggest you go to a drug store — not a library, they’re too loaded down with weirdly written crap — and buy a bestseller. You can buy a chick if you want, chicks copy more than anyone does. AND COMPARE TO TEXT OF YOUR PURCHASED WORK TO YOUR OWN WRITING. YOUR WRITING SHOULD BE OF COMPARABLE STYLE TO THE DRUG STORE’S WORK.
This is so important I can’t repeat it enough times. LITERARY AGENTS WILL NOT LOOK AT YOUR WORK UNLESS IT FITS A HIGHLY STYLIZED, FORMAL PATTERN THAT A MILLION NOVELS HAVE EVOLVED TOWARD OVER THE COURSE OF 500 YEARS OF HISTORY. It’s that simple.
*blowing out my breath* Come on, Dogg. Invest the money and buy a pharmacy book and do as I say and compare. And then begin the long practice of reeducating your mind to automatically write in the established style.
— Greg, *urging you*
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