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Art progress: Illustration from a fantasy book.Illustrated by the author.
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The Song Of Achilles Review

 

First, making the readers root for the hero 'Achilles' while the story is happening in someone else's head (think Great Gatsby), to be honest, I think it's really hard to achieve--making readers root for both the characters: narrator Patroclus and hero Achilles. And that alone gets claps from me. The author m...

Quotes from chapter 1: THE HIGH AUCTION

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You can read a third of the book here:
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Quotes: THE HIGH AUCTION

 

The Night Circus Review

Just. Mesmerizing.
This book, you will be reading, not for the plot, not for the story, not even because everyone is reading it, but you will be reading it for its writing. If you have read at least 50 books published in the last five years, if you've rea...

The Fifth Season Review

Here, some people feel the earth enough to shake it, move it, and call calamities. Of course, normal people as you and I wouldn't want those lot to be roaming free, would we? So, we kept them chained, made sure they cannot be angry no matter what, sometimes, we even told them who to get a child with. If they do whatever we tell them to, we give them rings. If they are loyal enough, if they master the art of controlling the earth, they can even be Ten-Ringers. But even then they must bear as many...

BALANCE OF NARRATIVE AND DIALOGUE

I posted about what too much dialogue one after another does to a page or worse—a whole chapter. You can see that here.

However, in this article, I’ll be marking how you can still show and give details, without making your characters directly talk.

Let’s go straight to an example; I never give advice without examples because I never learned anything without them. General advice sounds like jargon to me. Haha. 

 So, here is the dialogue. Let’s say your chapter 4 or 5 begins straight like this—

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A Thousand Splendid Suns Review

Rarely do we find those books that grab your attention straight away, and they hold the attention the more you go. I thought the authors do it for the first 30 or so pages, even the award winners. I thought no book could possibly make me turn the page even when I was on page 50 ... 100 ... 200 ...!

Damn! Really? Till the end? 

Well, there are those books. Yes. I found them rarely. And when I found them, I read them within the same week. A Thousand Splendid Suns was one of those books. 

I kept readi...

Reviews: Critique and Editing

If you are tired of hearing jargon like:

# Not flowing well # I'm not understanding anything in your action scene # You are telling; show it # Your prose is descriptive # I'm skimming mostly here...

And if you are wondering what these really mean and how should you handle them, then you might be in the right place. 

Even well-paid critiques and editors say things like these in their 'In-line-comments' while they don't say how to handle those issues, or at least, what those really mean. 

I'll tell yo...

Chapter 6: Manners

   "The Machinist, Monk, & Mesmerizer Chronicles"

In the near future, a machinist, a monk, and a mesmerizer are looking for the Source of the universe, but among the ancient scriptures, they only find the devil â€¦

Few humans in the future find the secrets of what words and sounds can do, for the Apocalypse and war lead them to evolve in mind and physique. Two of them end World War III with just a speech. Some say they did a mass-hypnosis. Others say it was their voice and will. Fifty years later ...