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  1. BradCarsten

    Going from Free platform to Paid?

    I get about 70% of my sales through KU, so it's worth trying. Fortunately, you only have to sign up for three month stretches, so if it doesn't work out, you can simply pull it after your three months are up.
  2. BradCarsten

    The Flexing Phase

    That was me in the beginning. I never really used a thesaurus, but I tried to write "beautiful prose," that ended up being awkward and flowery, with sentences that sounded complicated but didn't mean anything. I would spend weeks on a single paragraph, writing it over and over 30 or 40 times...
  3. BradCarsten

    Your Favorite Non-Fiction?

    I enjoyed the Killing fields. It's a true story of a Doctor surviving in Cambodia after the Khmer Rouge came into power and killed anyone with an education, and put the rest of the people out into the fields to work. The book was brutal but very interesting. Masters of doom was great for those...
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    Favorite game

    I haven't played Dark Souls 3 yet, but I've finished one about half a dozen times and it was fantastic. The problem is that the people who are still playing it are really good, so I always get my ass handed to me when someone invades. It's embarrassing. I usually just play offline now.
  5. BradCarsten

    Have you ever lost confidence in writing?

    I used to be a pantser, and in one of my novels, my character ended up in a village where he was giving one of those "This is the time, this is the hour" inspirational speeches to rally them all together. it was so cringy. I had to delete 30,000 words and start again. The problems is, if you are...
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    GoogleDocs writers - how to organise story chapters?

    I usually have one document per chapter, and then when I am ready to publish, I just dump them onto my hard drive and batch import them into Libreoffice. With my last book, I started experimenting with dedicated writing software, and can't go back after that. It separates everything into...
  7. BradCarsten

    How to execute a goddamn timeskip

    You can use 3 stars to indicate a time / scene / character change (***) you then just need to reorientate your readers quickly and you're good to go. eg. " he then went to make a PJ toast while musing himself, wishing that this horrible year would end already. *** Alex looked at his...
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