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The Pringles Syndrome?

If you're going to use real people - contact them or their estate for permission. They may even suggest other names to use (or you may find out the easily searchable stuff IS an alias).

I'd do both - write a rushed ending and say "I'm abandoning this book for a while. In case I never come back to it, here is how it might have gone... Consider this the TV version of Game of Thrones, and maybe you'll get a (hopefully better) print one eventually..."

I have not read a lot (have one I've tried writing though... kind of stalled around chapter 20 something) but I find the best ones that I've found in my wife's old collection bring the characters together fairly early (Perhaps avoid the Harlequin Romance/Hallmark movie trope of having it happen...

I have not posted it anywhere yet - not sure I will - but I have a "smut story" that I've been working on. The actual sex doesn't happen until chapter four I think, and the next scene will be three chapters later, then two or three (the first straight sex one)... but I keep getting obsessed...

We'll be happy to see you post your own, original work, if you have any. It's just posting other people's works - especially translations - that's the issue here.

As with "plot armor" and a lot of other "tricks of the trade" - when done WELL, the author self-insert is a great tool, and will either be "invisible" or only obvious to those specifically looking for it. But if not done well, it will be PAINFULLY obvious and can kill the story, or at least the...

Hence why I listed that as the second option... Though from what I've heard, a lot of smut writers start out writing private erotica for an SO ... and discover that they enjoy the smut more than the partner (have even heard this alleged of Laurel K. Hamilton, which was why her Anita Blake books...

How do smut writers do it? Either with one hand on the keyboard and one ... somewhere else, or with a partner and having to stop frequently due to said partner...

Wow - for a second I thought you were roasting another one of my books there... Oh good - it probably is NOT one of mine then.... probably... :s_tongue:

Looking for a title of "Ornery Cuss" Myself... No not for a book for me... :biggrin_s:

My native environment seems to "car" because that is where most of my writing gets done.

Wish I hadn't lost my horror novel Hunter's Moon; every chapter was first person present tense (and never from the same character two chapters in a row) It's the only way that the writer can leave the character's fate ambiguous until it happens (and was a lot of fun writing out how the...

There was a book published in the early 90s that sounds like kind of what you want to write - Grunts. It was about a group of orcs in a fantasy world who suddenly get hold of modern weapons. They aren't quite as dense as Warhammer Orks but, aside from the leaders, close - but it is not...

Well then... Since I wouldn't be there in person this doesn't matter. If I were, Mister Brown would suffice. All over the place. Oh, you mean duration? First published work was an adventure game module in 1989. Second and third were adventure game modules in 2005 and 2006 IIRC (may be off...

It's never one thing but little things add up - a lot of grammar errors, serious plot holes, etc. I'll give the first few a pass but ... it adds up and eventually just makes me lose interest. Though there is one book I was never able to BECOME immersed in - The Worm Ouroboros by E. R. Eddings...

After tucking my daughter in to bed, I turned to see my son standing there looking confused, until he said: "Daddy, I'm an only child!"

Nuance

so bumdated?

So, wait - are you: 1. Running the panel and asking what to ask the attendees -- or -- 2. Polling the forum for how we would answer these -- or -- 3. Asking us how YOU should answer these? if #1 then I'm not sure that "noveling" is a word (and it probably would have a double ell - "novelling"...