cornerofmadness

Yeah I still have nothing to say but I haven't even posted links in a while, let a long my word count. I'm too behind to come up with a proper post.

I'm in the middle of editing a short story for MLR press and I DO want some help from you all. The shitty blurb got kicked back to me so let's see if any of you have suggestions (especially since I see their editors just changed tenses on one of my statements so it doesn't match the rest. sigh)

Sion, a crown prince of the elves, wanted to have a fun time with his formerly estranged blind son, Ioan so he took Ioan to something they both enjoy: a human anime convention. They both like humans and all their geeky creations so Sion anticipated a good weekend. What he never considered was an enemy assassin armed with only a description of the character Sion’s cosplaying, murdering his way through the convention.

Detective Roy Connolly, a closet geek, headed to the anime con without his usual partner, Evie. He never expected to find one of the most handsome men he’s ever seen cosplaying in the same universe he was. Better yet, Sion can’t keep his hands off Roy. Throwing caution to the wind, Roy jumps into a whirlwind relationship only to find himself in the cross hairs of an assassin.

I'll need help/opinions ASAP. Thanks!

And now those links

From Alina's blog : too many ideas to write.

Author’s toolkit Youtubes to watch

From Betty: Perspective and Voice

Apps for authors and one of Jana's friends suggested Voice Dreams which is @10$ and reads your story so you can hear where it's awkward (and another suggested you could do the same in Google Playdocs)

save the cat

how to write your blurb (it's hard!!!)

how to get the write mindset

weak novel

overpowered characters This is SO easy to do in fantasy especially. I think this is becoming a real problem in the Harry Dresden books (and it was for Fantastic Beasts because that villain made Voldemort look like a first year student...) This is also why I don't like characters who end up literally as Gods or Gods in general as characters.

five anachronisms that fantasy needs I disagree with this one. Almost entirely. Hell#1 is the starting point for my new thing. If they understood medicine Zvon would never lose his arm. And I don't know how I feel about whitewashing over the horribleness of prejudice, sorry I just don't know. I DID include it in Soldiers of the Sun, not much and it's from the villains but still, can you see dark-skinned Agni NOT having something said to him in the 1930s. To me it would break the immersion more if it wasn't there.

Splinters of Silver - editing nothing

Blood Red - Edited up to ch 7

Steampunk Holiday - did jack

Behind Blue Eyes - back burnered

Horror anthology - completely lost what I did. SIgh


Haunted Hocking (there's more but here's what's in the main document)

6987 / 60000 words. 12% done!

Yearly Count -

16662 / 100000 words. 17% done!