Andres’s Comments (group member since Jul 29, 2020)

Andres’s comments from the Gathering Of Dedicated Scribblers group.

What is a dead tree edition?

Wow. So this is basically the first time you've read your story through? That can be really helpful for editing as your coming from a fresh mind set.

Wow, what a awful nurse. Does she make it in your book? I just finished my chapter 8. Going to do an hour of peer review and then finish work.

I understand. It works best for me to right out the entire book first so that my flow and train of thought all get on page. Then I start over with a lice comb and the more I comb the more the entire story changes. However, it still has the bones I'm just busying attaching all the nerves and blood vessels.

Welcome back Arlu!

We're still here as you can see. Dedicated to Scribbling! Good luck on your masters, that's awesome.

Hi Eleanor,

we're not going anywhere. Get that life caught up enough where you can start making sentences of those ideas!

@ Rachel. Yes I do but the majority of my music is high beats per minute with minimal lyrics so I'm just pumped up and jamming all the time. Morgan Page / Marshmellow / Avicii / David Guetta type stuff.

@ Tomas, Np I'll keep checking in and letting you know where am at as I cruise through several tasks at the same time.

Tomas, just hit chapter 25.
Finished the 3rd book of the Mistborn series.
Started writing Chapter 8 of my book.

Busy busy busy. How is everyone else doing?

I just looked up ghost whisperer and it ended over 10 years ago. I think it would be safe if you wanted to write in that direction. Plus she was a married woman not dealing with the YA genre in which you are.

Here are critic reviews to the show:

It's all a bunch of mush, but I suspect it's mush that will find a receptive audience.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
by Rob Owen

Season 1 Review: Hewitt is quite good, or as good as the show allows; there are some potholes along the way, as the script sacrifices sense to sentiment.
Los Angeles Times
by Paul Brownfield

Maybe you could turn it into a supernatural series where Lizzy is traveling and uses her ability as a medium to help ghosts. Could be a supernatural version of young readers Nancy Drew mystery series. Just a touch of scary and the boy she swoons over in every series always turns up a bad guy.

Oh, and her little brother is the oddball character that adds comedy. His autism gets him picked on which helps your protagonist address bullying issues from a guardians perspective. This makes her a bit unpopular which increases her self esteem issues. Still her love for her brother prevails and his genius links her clues together helping her solve the case.

Bah, now I'm rambling. I'm sorry. Okay, good writing Karma headed your way. Keep dropping in and let us know how its going!

@ Sonja,

Oh awesome! Sounds like a great start for your first novel. A historical fiction with a YA audience. Did you already map out the storyboard for the ghost? How/why is name is tainted and how it gets cleared?

Welcome Sonja,

What genre are you hoping to publish in? What's your "Real" book going to be about? Do you have a title and a blurb?

Christine,

Create a new topic on this thread with the title of your book as the topic. In coursera click the sharable link then copy it from your http and paste it as a new comment. This way we can click on it and instantly be taken to your work.

You can also create a creative writing tab under your profile here on goodreads. It will be open to public view but we can read your work there and write comments below. The third option would be to ask someone here if they can trade work through emails.

When I had 10 chapters completed I traded work with 2 others who had 10 chapters as well. This is nice because you are giving your time to review someone else's work but they are giving you that same time back in return.

How many chapters do you currently have written?

Hi Chris!

Congrats on joining the GODS. I've been on here for almost 4 years now, active. Although it make get dim, it will never go dark. Start a new topic with the title of your book and start posting your coursera links there. The most important thing to remember is do not stop writing. There are moments when activity gets really high on here and then dims down. So keep writing that way when its up you'll get some good feedback.

Tomas just hit chapter 20.

I was trying so hard to write chapter 3 that it ended in 7k words. At first it was frustrating because I felt like I couldn't get what I needed into the chapter. Then I found an awesome stopping point and was able to make 2 chapters out of it!

I'm pumped up now. Going to read 2 chapters from Tomas and then fire up chapter 5!

Finally added it to my profile.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...

Awesome! I look forward to reading both of your stories. I'm just not good at multitasking stories so I only do one at a time or my brain gets mad at me.

Exactly. Look at Patrick Rothfuss, he wrote his trilogy in 1992.
10 years later he released and sold his first book of the trilogy in 2002. 5 years later in 2007 he released book 2. Now, 14 years later he is still having a hard time finishing book 3.

But, I'm glad your back Rachel!

@Aura,

Ugh, we have all been there. Honestly you're doing too much. Don't burn yourself out correcting and correcting others peoples beginning chapters. ML, Liavali and myself all did a 10 chapter round table. Its much easier and a lot more efficient. It let us put a lot of words on paper and get a good flow going before worrying about flushing out details or typos.

Don't worry about checking my material, my book is already done, I'm onto the next one. I will need help but i'm thinking it wont be until around june-july ish.

I know now that you might be committed to your group until the coursera course is completed but hopefully if your going to continue writing through the future this group will be a little more helpful. We want you to not feel that you're spending so much time checking other peoples work that it is somewhat of a burden. Rather its nice to find a break or stopping point where you can trade work with someone who has also written so much that they can stop, take a breather and gather some feedback of their progress.

Best of luck, hope you continue to chat with us here.

@Tomas, just hit chapter 15.