Keelin's comments

Keelin's comments from the Goodreads Sci-Fi/Fantasy Authors group.

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at the risk of sounding completly stupid and off the point ..... wheres british columbia ??????????????

ive only got this to say to norm

you wrote "a friend is usually too afraid to offend"
clearly you've never met my friends
with regerds to the book ive decided to put it on hold until after november 21st as ive got modules coming up

anyways thanks for the advice use lot
really appriciated ;)

cya l8r pepole :P

by no means am i saying i dont take critisism i just dont like taking it from complete strangers until im sure that ive put 110% in to what ive written thats all and at the moment my friends will be honest with me but not so much that i completely lose all confidence thats all

oh well GW each to his own
if that works for you then who am i to argue but i wouldnt feel confident letting complete strabgers read my book as its my first and im not the best person to take critisim from my teachers let alone people ive never met ( again apologies for the spelling, you'd never think im duing eng. lit. for gcse )

i dont think that you should give too much pointless information unless absolutly nessicary(sorry about the spelling) in my book i let my friends read a chapter of my book everytime i finish it and let them decide what it needs more of or less of
they're my best critics because they're honest and they woud be the age range that my book is aimed at
get someone who is in the age range that your book is aimed at and see what they think of it because if they're your friends they'll be brutally honest even if you dont want it

i agree with A.L but then i just have a short attention span so that could be my fault

as i said before its all about giving the reader all the information that they need at that moment in time but not too much or else theyll put it down for something else

i sholud know ive been practiclly pulling my hair out over my friends being so picky and choosy about what they want from a book

oh by the way has anyone got any good ideas for a place name as ive drawn a blank in my book ??????

in first person i would say that more detail should be spent on characters thoughts but in third person more should be used on appearances

it all depends on the point of view the book is being written in

personly i prefer to read books from the first person but im finding my book easier to write from the third person as i think it gives the reader more of the perspective of whats going on

there is also that idea that you dont give away too much detail about the main characters till about halfway threw the series or near the end of the book

but thats just my opinion whatever thats worth

sometimes living in a fantasy world is more preferable than the real world

i wouldnt say that i live in a fantasy world but when in the middle of a particulary boring RE class i would certainly find myself imagining im actually living certain scenes in my head

it works quite well if im stuck and dont know where to go from a certain point

as for the music as long as im alone with my mp3 player then im grand it doesnt matter what type of music it is but for obvious reasons it helps if they dnt have lyrics :P

i dont want the playlist i want the first 12 chapters since my computer is being really slow and only giving me what it wants to give me

anyone know where i can get that without having to download it ?????????????????

i du hav tey say my fav wud hav tey b eder da harry potter books r else the study series

lotr was gud but i fund it vry hrd tey undrstnd at sum points

class films doe :D;P