@BenSobieck
Please excuse me Mr Sobieck,I have a question.Are we going to get more of Zandra?
@TheOneWhoWrites18 I'm not writing anything new for Zandra right now, but I'm also not ruling anything out. We'll see!
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Taking the dog for long walks at night, looking at Halloween decorations, listening to old Art Bell, catching the wafts of legal weed from the open garages, and just thinking.
It's good to have space like that. I've been grinding on an editing project for a novel that'll come out later this year. It's a semi-biographical piece
Art Bell had great taste for bumper music. "Some Velvet Morning" by Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood is an absolute banger.
Still, you go into the archives for 20-year-old Coast to Coast episodes hoping to escape for an hour, and you realize it's the same proto-2024 paranoia that's always been there.
We're either doomed or not doomed at all.
Today I learned "Ideocracy" is a real word, while "Idiocracy" is a real movie.
One word deals with ideas and the other deals with idiots.
Honestly I’m not very sure which word applies to the idiots since it seems like the idiots are running the government. Butb it’s also an election year and that v seems to bring out the idiocy in all the political parties , especially those running on an idiocraric platform.
Doing a big editing project for a novel, and I'm cleaning up a lot of "soft" language in sentence structure. If you soften the sentence with "might," "could be," "started to," "seemed to," etc., you soften the stakes. This is a piece of military fiction, so these word choices echo throughout the novel.
That goes for passive sentence structure, too. Active structure moves forward. Passive structures add a tiny, unconscious pause. Tight sentences allow action and important details room to breathe, too.
Just random thoughts. I am sitting alone, after all, and the dog doesn't care much.
P.S. In case anyone gets the wrong idea, I'M NOT THE PERFECT WRITER, EITHER. Editing is like coaching a football team. You can be right about something without ever suiting up.
Pro tip: It's a lot easier to write a logline, summary, and back cover copy BEFORE you write the novel. You can always adjust later.
THE END OF WAR hit 100,000 reads. Thank you!
Some writing notes take on their own life.
I emailed myself the subject line "sleep vampires" so long ago that I use it as a marker in my inbox to delete up to.
I don't know how I missed this, but WEBTOON IS TRADING PUBLICLY ON NASDAQ!!??
That means you can buy stock in Wattpad/Webtoon. Currently trading around 10 bucks.
For the low, low price of $10 US, you can call yourself "owner" of this very site.
https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/stocks/wbtn
Sometimes I think about what my kids will say to me when they figure out I'm on Wattpad. What will they think about these stories?
And then I remember my kids won't think even for a millisecond that I'm cool enough to read.
Very good. Carry on.