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I do roughly the same thing as Olivia. I try to flavor the dialogue with a sprinkling of dialectical sayings or pronunciations, etc.
I'll even make up my own sayings....
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Guess we must be in the minority here. I have my novel out to an editor who is roughly the same age as the protags in my book but he doesn't get the non-violence - says I ne...
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...unbiased feedback. I'd be more than happy to trade with three writers for an equal 30K words (or your first three chapters, whatever equals that roughly - I won't be a stickler). My...
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...page, cannot stand and can't keep straight the words for words, like adjective and participle, and cannot parse a sentence into parts. Speaking roughly Williams Syndrome, which I do...
...on was later brought out of Lithuania in 1940, scarcely before the outbreak of The Second World War. Al’s mother, however, was murdered with the roughly 95% of Lithuanian Jewry, in t...
...n piquing my interest in your book!
It did sound like you put a lot of effort into your trailer, and I wonder if you would mind sharing how much (roughly) you spent on it?
Although it...
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...rage number of words per line in a 6" x 9" trade paperback is approximately 10 and each page has approximately 39 lines = 390 words/page.Which is roughly 2 minutes per page. So, in a...
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...ms etc, as well as translating 24 of her father's poems. One of the best tools I used to extend the story was to interview Parvaneh, after we had roughly translated a section of her m...
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