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The thing is, you need to have read the book to know if the blurb's any good. I know it's not a synopsis but...
I don't think we should bother with the whole reading-the-book-before-writing-the-blurb thing. I think we should just write blurbs and pass them around. If someone sees one they like for their book, they can use it. A bit like some of those generic bookcovers you see on websites, but more fun (although some of the kilt-ripping book covers have given me a laugh).
Ugh yes. Blurbs are the pits. Always like pulling teeth.
Lexie wrote: "I don't think we should bother with the whole reading-the-book-before-writing-the-blurb thing. I think we should just write blurbs and pass them around. If someone sees one they like for their book..."I'm so bad at blurbs that if we do this and I see a blurb someone else has written that's good, I'll write the book to go with it!
Oh, so tempting.... how about this...In a world where humour has been banned, and a laugh could send you to prison, a young girl decides she wants to be a comedian. How can she achieve this? And is it really worth it, or should she become the sewage worker that her parents want her to be? Follow this brave youngster in her desperate quest to bring laughter back to a world that is Dead Serious...
Gingerlily - Mistress Lantern wrote: "Oh, so tempting.... how about this...In a world where humour has been banned, and a laugh could send you to prison, a young girl decides she wants to be a comedian. How can she achieve this? And ..."
I've probably already done that one. Snortle!
But did you call it Dead Serious? I'm quite proud of that name :)
I'm not surprised. I'd nick it but it would have to be a whodunit about comedians.
Go ahead - you're welcome to it - but I want an Acknowledgement.Or you could set it in a world where everything is joking all the time and you have stand-up seriousics!
Mwahahaaaargh! That's making my head hurt.
Now well over half way, despite a respite to rewrite the latest Horror novel
I'm writing Tallis anecdotes at the moment, he's got a book launch coming up on the 1st June and I'm making sure plenty of bloggers have something for the day :-)Anybody else with a blog want Tallis to make a contribution?
I read that as Tallis antidotes!
Will wrote: "I'm free."I'll get something sorted :-)
Or rather Tallis will
Gingerlily - Mistress Lantern wrote: "I read that as Tallis antidotes!"they're what you take if you're being infested by reality
Will wrote: "I'm free."Are You Being Served?
Jim wrote: "Gingerlily - Mistress Lantern wrote: "I read that as Tallis antidotes!"they're what you take if you're being infested by reality"
I wonder how he would manage Trump?
I'm still throwing up. Glad i dis twice my quota last week!I still haven't written my talks piece either. Man i am shite.
Well done everyone. Keep up the good work. :-)
Cheers
MTM
Gingerlily - Mistress Lantern wrote: "Jim wrote: "Gingerlily - Mistress Lantern wrote: "I read that as Tallis antidotes!"they're what you take if you're being infested by reality"
I wonder how he would manage Trump?"
I'd like to see an ode...
Jim wrote: "I'm writing Tallis anecdotes at the moment, he's got a book launch coming up on the 1st June and I'm making sure plenty of bloggers have something for the day :-)Anybody else with a blog want Tall..."
I should be honoured if Tallis would condescend to visit my humble blog.
I recently read a story where the protagonist was called Tanis, and was female. Had me very confused!
I seem to be back. Finished a 1242 word scene today which was started two days ago, however you want to count that.I was worried. And I'm still going to have to ask someone if anything has changed in my writing, because I honestly can't tell. I feel different.
Alicia wrote: "I seem to be back. Finished a 1242 word scene today which was started two days ago, however you want to count that.I was worried. And I'm still going to have to ask someone if anything has change..."
Brilliant! Well done!
Alicia wrote: "I seem to be back. Finished a 1242 word scene today which was started two days ago, however you want to count that.I was worried. And I'm still going to have to ask someone if anything has change..."
Top job!
162 words today and 104 yesterday but now I'm at the end of the already written stuff. I ditched this to write something for NaNo and now I want to take it up again. I know how it's going to go so I just need to do a bit of planning and I'll be off again. It's at 46k already but it has some way to go.
Hard to get back into things sometimes!
That was the point of going through it so thoroughly. I'm in there now and I want to push forward.
Half term starts soon so unless I can wrote something tomorrow that's it for another two weeks. Ho hum.Cheers
MTM
Oooo 543. Better than a slap in the face with a wet fish! Cheers
MTM
600 words - cut off in their prime as I'm going out for lunch! (Not all bad news, then!)
They say you should always stop in the middle of a scene. I'm one decent session away from finishing a short story.
I hope to get back to it, now the jury business is out of the way - it is amazing how knackering it has been. But there is the bank holiday next week, we may have to help daughter no.2 move house and I have been told I am going on holiday soon too. So I have no idea when I'll get back to whatever it was I was writing before.
Well looking at the last week or so, most of what I have written has been Tallis Steelyard stuff for other people's blogs, getting ready for the blog tour to mark the release of the next Tallis Steelyard book.I just totted up what I've written and there's about 9000 words of the stuff!
So in theory, following this business model, the stuff I write to promote on three books should just about fill a fourth :-)
Now I've still got to write my own blog post for the launch but Gingerlilly gave me the picture which has inspired a story.
If there is anybody out there who feels their blog has been sadly neglected, just give me a shout
Jim wrote: "Well looking at the last week or so, most of what I have written has been Tallis Steelyard stuff for other people's blogs, getting ready for the blog tour to mark the release of the next Tallis Ste..."I'm on. Ping it over! ;-) I'll probably do a special midweek post, or I can schedule it for whenever it's meant to go out and avoid posting any of my own drivvel that day!
Cheers
MTM
I'll play. I have a blog tour on Tuesday next week and I'm off on my hols the following Sunday (just for five days) but if there's a suitable date, let me know.
Kath wrote: "I'll play. I have a blog tour on Tuesday next week and I'm off on my hols the following Sunday (just for five days) but if there's a suitable date, let me know."I'll probably get this done Sunday :-)
Okay. Tell me what day you want it posted.
Did you see I said I'd be happy to help?
Who he does get about does our Tallis:-)
And he does gin on...;)
( That should have said "go on",)
Perhaps we should have a blurb support thread?