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Thomas Weaver Questions for anyone who happens to see this: How much of a problem is it for you as a reader when you see "headhopping" (viewpoint switching between characters within a scene, usually without even a transition) in a story? Do you overlook... more
- September 23, 2019
- Danielle Ross Drives me insane. If I can't keep track of who's POV I'm in, it breaks me out of the story, and it makes it harder for me to read.
  
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- Lucinda Moebius I can't follow the story so I usually give up and stop reading.
  
  October 3, 2019
Thomas Weaver liked Justin Edison's album.

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- August 20, 2019
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- July 1, 2019
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My book, Liminal Hearts, is now out! Available as an ebook now, and paperback shortly.

https://www.amazon.com/Liminal-Hearts-Rules-Chaos-Book-ebook/dp/B07TJJVT8S/

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/liminal-hearts-dawn-r-schuldenfrei/1132248314

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- June 29, 2019
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- Thomas Weaver Evil unicorn... :-)
  
  June 29, 2019
- Dawn R. Schuldenfrei Yes! and some mischievous fae.
  
  July 1, 2019
Thomas Weaver liked Dawn R. Schuldenfrei's photo.

My book, Liminal Hearts, is now out! Available as an ebook now, and paperback shortly.

https://www.amazon.com/Liminal-Hearts-Rules-Chaos-Book-ebook/dp/B07TJJVT8S/

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/liminal-hearts-dawn-r-schuldenfrei/1132248314

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- June 29, 2019
- Thomas Weaver likes this.
- Thomas Weaver Evil unicorn... :-)
  
  June 29, 2019
- Dawn R. Schuldenfrei Yes! and some mischievous fae.
  
  July 1, 2019
Thomas Weaver commented on Danielle Ross's photo.

Playing with painting again. Had planned on doing a portrait of a main character, but then this happened. NOT finished, but looks pretty cool to me. :D
- June 18, 2019
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- Thomas Weaver Could still be a portrait, just an extreme close-up. :-)
  
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- Danielle Ross True, but not of the character I wanted. XD
  
  June 18, 2019
Thomas Weaver liked Danielle Ross's photo.

Playing with painting again. Had planned on doing a portrait of a main character, but then this happened. NOT finished, but looks pretty cool to me. :D
- June 18, 2019
- Thomas Weaver likes this.
- Thomas Weaver Could still be a portrait, just an extreme close-up. :-)
  
  June 18, 2019
  
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- Danielle Ross True, but not of the character I wanted. XD
  
  June 18, 2019
Thomas Weaver Has anyone else seen this: http://www.hackerfactor.com/GenderGuesser.php#Analyze ? (It's a computer program that's supposedly able to determine an author's gender based on writing style, word choice, etc.) Have you TRIED it? What did you think of the... more
- May 6, 2019
- Lucinda Moebius I've never heard of it. I have seen one that compares your writing style to other famous authors.
  
  May 13, 2019
- Lucinda Moebius I just tried it on two of my pieces. The verdict for both was I am a male writer. While in one area it said I was weak, female.
  The interesting part is in one piece of writing the main character was male and in the other the main character was female.
  
  May 13, 2019
  
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- Thomas Weaver The "I Write Like..." thing is overly simplistic, and I doubt it was ever meant to be taken as seriously as some people do/did. If the difference from merely changing the viewpoint character's name can change the result from "Stephenie Meyer" to "Cory... more
  
  May 17, 2019
Thomas Weaver has added a new profile photo.
- April 22, 2019
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- Gregory Close Hey, there's color in your pen!
  
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- Thomas Weaver Yep. I'm tempted to say, "Such is the power of Chaos," as explanation, but I actually just used Photoshop. :-)
  
  June 4, 2019
Thomas Weaver That feeling when you find out someone read one of your novels (or your twin's, if you have a twin who's a writer) in ONE DAY... :-)
- March 21, 2019
Thomas Weaver wrote a new blog entry:

Excerpt: The Sleeping and the Dead, by Paul B. Spence

My "clone-sibling" Paul B. Spence has a new science fiction novel...

The Sleeping and the... more
- #sci-fi
- #SF
- #excerpt
- #space opera
- #novel
- #Paul B. Spence
- March 19, 2019
Thomas Weaver liked Susanne Leist's photo.

Prey for The Dead is now available on Kindle and Nook. Visit Oasis, Florida, where tourists frolic on the white-sanded beaches, and vampires play at night. Will Linda and her friends save their town?
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07PB9KG4P
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- March 8, 2019
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- March 8, 2019
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Thomas Weaver → The 7-7-7 Club: Getting ready to publish book four later this month, and the author (also an AuthorBitz member, but he doesn't talk much) is already hard at work on the NEXT book.
- March 7, 2019
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Thomas Weaver → The 7-7-7 Club:
- February 7, 2019

Forum Posts

July 16, 2018 11:07 AM MDT

in the topic Writer's Diary in the forum Off-Topic Discussions

Christine: "Target audience" doesn't mean -- or shouldn't mean, at least -- "people who have the same sort of experiences as in the story or memoir." It means "people who are interested in this sort of story or memoir." If you write about farming in Australia, your target audience contains people who enjoy memoirs of various sorts, people interested in reading about Australia, and people interested in reading about farm life. The place where all three overlap contains your "ideal readers." Some of them will be interested because they have their own 'farming in Australia' experiences; some will be interested because they have never experienced farming anywhere, nor ever been to Australia, so what's just normal life to you is interesting to them because it's unfamiliar. If those of us who write science fiction had to seek readers amongst people who had experiences similar to what we write about... So far, there aren't too many people who've been off-planet at all, much less been as far as epsilon Lyrae. :-)
July 16, 2018 10:45 AM MDT

in the topic Writer's Diary in the forum Off-Topic Discussions

Judith: "Can I be confident that an editor, especially a developmental editor, will understand my target audience? Does it matter?" I believe it matters very much whether a developmental editor understands the author's target audience, intentions for the story, etc. Some developmental editors are good at this, and some... are not. The good ones will help you clarify and develop your ideas to make your story the best version of itself; the bad ones will try to make your story into their story. In my opinion, developmental editors are most helpful for authors who don't have a clear idea of what story they're trying to write, etc. Otherwise, a handful of good beta readers is just as good, if not better, because you get more than one reader's opinion to make sure your story does work for the intended audience.
July 13, 2018 2:47 PM MDT

in the topic Writer's Diary in the forum Off-Topic Discussions

"Hope we hear more comments on others' attitudes on this editing subject" Well, you asked... "Internet wisdom" says that writers and editors may as well be completely separate species, because a person can be either a writer or an editor, but not both, because these are different skill sets (true) that use different sides of the brain (false: the "right brain/left brain" things is nonsense), and since no one can use both sides of their brain equally well (false) because every human is either right-handed or left-handed (false), no one can be both creative and logical (false), which means editors don't know anything about storytelling (false: have you kids not heard of developmental editors?), and writers are clueless about the "trivia" of spelling and grammar and word choice (false). I love writing. I also love editing. (I'm ambidextrous, though, and have a neurological "glitch" -- note the use of quotation marks to indicate irony/sarcasm -- that makes me both creative and logical, so make of that what you will.) I love editing even when I am temporarily annoyed at having to make the same corrections over and over again, or much worse, when I'm not allowed to fix certain things that are objectively wrong because a publisher mistakenly thinks making those corrections would slow me down too much, and they're already behind schedule because the author took far longer than expected to write the novel... (It takes more mental effort on my part to ignore wonky sentence structure or inappropriate word choices than it does to just fix these things and move on.) Sometimes, correcting punctuation and whatnot is actually soothing. (Weird, right? And that reminds me: I haven't posted today's "Writing Glitch" on my blog yet.) My clone-sibling says it's because I'm a creature of chaos and thus need a lot of order in my life to balance that. (Obscure fiction-reference humor is my other superpower. ) Although developmental editing for other people is not easy for me (if I don't know the author and the author's intentions for the story, I can't make recommendations on how to guide the story in that direction), I do find that aspect of editing enjoyable when it's for my own writing (or my twin's -- not that there's any real difference after more than two decades of collaboration).
July 9, 2018 5:35 PM MDT

in the topic Authors' Pets in the forum Off-Topic Discussions

I'm kinda surprised no one has posted anything on this topic yet; it seems inevitable that, whenever writers socialize, they eventually start telling each other about their pets: cats, dogs, birds, fish, strangely adorable reptiles... This is Harmony, one of six cats with whom I currently share a house.
May 11, 2018 11:31 AM MDT

in the topic a suggestion for encouraging new people to join in the forum Suggestions

"We are about a week away from being out of BETA." That's the first thing anyone not signed in sees in the announcements at the top of the home page. I know there haven't been any new announcements to replace it, but it seems to me that having something that's both outdated (posted in the middle of March and no longer relevant) and gives the impression that the site isn't really up and running yet may turn away potential new members. Anyone coming to the site without being a member (or being signed in as a member) has to scroll down a bit to see any of the discussion posts. I think keeping something there about the benefits of membership makes sense, but the 'We're still in beta, but not for long' bit ought to go away. It's no longer relevant, it gives a false impression of how the site is going, and it takes up space that interferes with easily finding and reading members' posts. (If I'm not supposed to express an opinion on things like this, I hope the site's moderator/owner will just tell me.)

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