Recent content by KennyCelican

Honestly they might be past the ‘stop calling me little’ phase by ten. It‘s something I’ve noticed, an ongoing infantilization of successive generations. Younger Millennials are considered ‘kids’, even though they’re thirty now. People call eighteen year olds ‘babies’ unironically. But yeah, a...

All fiction is art. It is something created by creative humans. That is art. Now, you can grade it on quality and subject matter and all other kinds of things to determine what kind and caliber of art it is, but much like finger paint art on a refrigerator is still, in fact, art, all fiction is...

Consistent updates is how things get noticed, really. There are ways to fine tune that, or to cheese algorithms, or manipulate readers, and some of those are less ethically questionable than others, but all of it starts with consistency. If your writing is consistently enjoyable to read, and...

You and I and every author out there knows that the YA market has readers that can handle more complex storylines and prose. The bean counters at the publishers can't handle it, so they assume the YA readers can't. Also, they're not looking for 'the next big thing'. They're looking to recreate...

Yeah, I liked clips from Seinfeld and Friends, sometimes. But the bulk of the shows? Yeah, no. House was fantastic, as were most of the seasons of Blackadder. Whedon's first big hit was Buffy the Vampire Slayer. He did a few other TV shows, like Firefly, Dollhouse, and my favorite, Doctor...

Out of curiosity, do readers who do comment feel that way if the author replies to their comment? I like comments, so I've made it a habit to reply to them, to interact with readers who take the time to initiate the conversation. I hope I'm not discouraging folks from commenting by doing so...

Constantly or consistently?

I think you nail it right here, and it makes all the difference between what works and what doesn't. Do the lines flow? Do they fit the character? Is everyone else in the scene acting in character, or are they volleying the idiot ball around to set up the one liner? A lot of people blame...

Thing is, from a dozen years working in customer service or customer service adjacent jobs, I can tell you that those folks aren't going off on you based on something you did, for the most part. Extreme customer feedback (both ranting Karens and offers to bear my children) correlate far more...

Write what you write. Your readers will find you. Just don't be deceptive in your synopsis or anything like that. Be up front about what's in your book. Yeah, some people will feel some kinda way. I had a reader recently who got all up in his feels about the MC of the Diary having sex with...

Huh. That might be another way I handicapped myself. But then in my case I was cross-loading from another site, so I needed a bit to get things started. Took me like a solid four months (in bits and pieces) to get everything loaded, so by the time I was ready to start scheduling, I was long...

I have that same problem with words not coming to mind, and I am a native English speaker. For me it's almost entirely not recalling the word I want at the moment. Honestly? I usually use a synonym until I can recall it. Perfect is the enemy of Good Enough, as it were.

Your English is completely comprehensible, not what I'd call 'broken English' at all. That said, I'd say if you're writing to make a career out of things, your first novel probably won't be the one that takes off. Nor the second. What makes a career professional writer is going back and writing...

Strange. The only story I've 'finished', in the 'no sequels, no prequels, this is a completed stand alone' was both a bittersweet ending and one of the hardest things I'd written to that point; it's got some serious darkness to it. I was proud, exhausted, and a little bit scared that I'd...

Meh. Could be AI, could be some dude tryna sound smart. Could be someone using AI to try to sound smart, too. Honestly, readers using AI to translate their comments or help them write comments is way less irksome to me than writers using AI to 'write' stories.