Well i KNOW its not my place to post anything here (im FAAAAAR from a writer and i havent picked up a book in like a year) but last i knew no one laughed at a bad book or anything... or if they do its so small scale that youll likely never even know or anything. people are people. All i can say is ...

I'm stuck. Not because I'm actually stuck on my story but because I know that at any time now, with just a few words I'm going to be done. I'm on the final climatic scene and this should be epic. Instead... I'm drowning in self doubt. After this, yes I have a long road ahead of me in terms of editin...

*deep breath* Ok, my mom's out of the hospital and she's doing fine. She's on liquid restriction and sodium restriction and we are going to chase her to stop smoking. Here's the story of that awful night. Mom woke up at around 4am and couldn't breathe. I woke up and went downstairs and she sounded t...

Mom's in the hospital. Saturday night she woke up barely able to breathe at about 4am. I woke to hear dad shouting and mom speaking outside my door and I could hear the desperation. I jumped out of the bed so fast. She's... "fine". There were so many fucked up events that night that I don'...

I still feel that the biggest thing that needs to be fixed is the pacing especially in terms of character development (which will hopefully fix the last of the mary sue qualities I think still exist in my main character - the love interest just came about all wrong but I think that's because the pac...

*mutters* >_> and this is why people like me in my job DESPITE EVERY OTHER DEPARTMENT being offered commission doesn't. https://soundcloud.com/ryan-block-10/comcastic-service This is just embarrassing. I'm a retention call rep for my own company. We still have time limit on the call. 6mins and get t...

:3 So I'm sure there's still a LOT of issues that are going to need to be cleaned up but my first final draft of my story is almost done. I renamed the book and revamped the story by a lot. I also feel I really strengthened my writing overall. Not that I'm delusional enough to think it's anywhere cl...

Speaking as a writer and a webdeveloper if my computer got stolen it would be the end of the world for me, too. I can relate, sponge, and I'm so sorry to hear that. I hope they recover your computer.

^_^ Get a better phone! (LOL no j/k)

crap always hangs around I guess

Self publishing these days does not have the horrible stigma attached to it that it used to. It is definitely a viable option. Hell, B&N on the nook doesn't even differentiate between self-published words and the normal published jobs. I just know that's not the route for me, but I'm not discour...

o_o I... I didn't realize Opera was still around... that's like telling me Netscape is still around... didn't that get phased out? As for redesigning. Sorry, I just don't have the time. If someone (like Archaic) wants to invest in the time to figure out that's fine, but I've got my hands full betwee...

But there's still a trade off there: marketing of your book. Yes, you have a higher chance of your book getting noticed, but the small publishers don't give you as much marketing and visibility. It's a decision that you have to make for yourself and what you are happy with. Me: I think part of the c...

There's a lot that goes into it and I'm not even fully sure of the full route myself but it's pretty much this, I think. It's kinda like doing resumes and hoping for a job interview. You look up publishers' and their guidelines about what they want and it can vary, but most want a book query/proposa...