It's called Nano but it's actually something big
When in doubt use Nanomachines
What Am I writing? Nano're business
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WritersEra |OT| Publish before you die, writing writer writes
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When in doubt use Nanomachines
What Am I writing? Nano're business
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Nano! Nano! Why hast thou abandoned me?
Namo. Mano. Vamonos!
Nano. Purple language allowed. Thanos-Darkseid novel-length erotic fanfiction, oh my!
Hey! Hey you! Listen, was I supposed to do something this month? I can nano-member.
Nano! Nano! Why hast thou abandoned me?
Namo. Mano. Vamonos!
Nano. Purple language allowed. Thanos-Darkseid novel-length erotic fanfiction, oh my!
Hey! Hey you! Listen, was I supposed to do something this month? I can nano-member.
I'm leaning towards "When in doubt, use Nanomachines" though thinking maybe "write in" instead of "use" Either way, thats probs my favorite.
*cough* "write nanomachines, son!" *cough*
It's what the kids 'round here say anyway. Just saying.
It's what the kids 'round here say anyway. Just saying.
Listen, i have been listening to a lot of Metal Gear Rising music lately and I would love to make the joke if I thought more people got it, but i'm not that confident.
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It's tough to do cause "son" is part of the quote :<
Maybe "ITS NANOMACHINES!" ?
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Different quote time, then. Just the word is reference enough - if it's bad writing anyway, best not to extend that to sub forms. I liked the "when in doubt" bit, even if it's not a game quote.
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I don't know if i already own edna and harvey.....not gonna enter until after reading my steam library lol.
I'm still debating whether to continue my old nano, do something new, or take the month to grt work on my current work in progress
continuing your old project is doing something new (a new part of it). and is a current work in progress if there is more to write... so that checks all the boxes. Seems logical to me :P
Congrats. I remember reading that one in the short story thread many moons ago.
Nice work! It's always satisfying to see a story get out there and get read.
Congrats! I remember this story (a much shorter version of this story!) Going to read it next chance I get!
Linking this little game we over on the discord have been having too much fun with.
https://iwl.me/
I put in over a dozen stories and all of them tell me I write like Agatha Christie which is a weird pick I would never have said myself.
https://iwl.me/
I put in over a dozen stories and all of them tell me I write like Agatha Christie which is a weird pick I would never have said myself.
I put two of my stories and also got Agatha Christie as well, lmao. Curious to hear other people's results.
I got Stephen King a few times, JK Rowling once, and some Russian dude I've never heard of once.
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I got Anne Rice with two different writing samples. Unfortunately, I'm not familiar with her.
Agatha Christie here. Then the next chapter got me Anne Rice. A poem got me Jonathan swift. A couple paragraphs from one chapter got me Dan Brown. One paragraph from those couple got me Dan Brown, another got me Stephen King. Fun tool.
I got Anne Rice for my unedited scene I was working for.
Which tells me either the thing isn't very accurate or Anne Rice is a terrible writer :P
One of my personal essays got published recently. It's videogame-related as well!
Longest thing I've ever gotten published at ~4,000 words. I tend to write short.
Longest thing I've ever gotten published at ~4,000 words. I tend to write short.
I accidentally posted this in the NaNo thread earlier. I'll go ahead and copy it here, so if there any replies, they can go in the right spot.
Does anyone have any experience hiring an illustrator that can produce a professional-quality illustration for a book cover? (Whether the work included the actual cover or just the illustration?)
I've looked at a dozen pre-made cover sites, and some of them are pretty good in certain genres (like romance), but I've seen virtually no pre-mades that are good for high fantasy, and for the few that exist, they don't match my story at all. When a site sells pre-mades for fantasy, it's mostly only urban fantasy.
When looking at custom covers instead, the pricing is always for using stock images, and I'm not sure that's going to work for fantasy, either. And the decent designers charge $500 or more just for a good-looking custom cover made from stock images, without including any custom illustration.
I'm trying to figure out if there's any way a (good) custom illustration could fall within my budget. All the artists I find myself liking on artstation tend to either work for real companies or do freelance work for real companies, so I've been too nervous to ask them what their prices are.
Does anyone have any experience hiring an illustrator that can produce a professional-quality illustration for a book cover? (Whether the work included the actual cover or just the illustration?)
I've looked at a dozen pre-made cover sites, and some of them are pretty good in certain genres (like romance), but I've seen virtually no pre-mades that are good for high fantasy, and for the few that exist, they don't match my story at all. When a site sells pre-mades for fantasy, it's mostly only urban fantasy.
When looking at custom covers instead, the pricing is always for using stock images, and I'm not sure that's going to work for fantasy, either. And the decent designers charge $500 or more just for a good-looking custom cover made from stock images, without including any custom illustration.
I'm trying to figure out if there's any way a (good) custom illustration could fall within my budget. All the artists I find myself liking on artstation tend to either work for real companies or do freelance work for real companies, so I've been too nervous to ask them what their prices are.
Just ask dude. I know it seems daunting, but open with "I got a book, I need a cover. Could you give me a quote?" If they're freelance, they'll 100% appreciate you asking because that's who they make their money. If they come in out of budget, simply apologize and move on.
This. Be nice and respectful. This isn't a fleamarket and its not a place for haggling. Artists take no offense to not being in someone's budget, but do take offense when you try and talk them down what is an already carefully considered price on their part.
Oh snap congrats again! You're building yourself up a good bibliography!
I'm married to an illustrator, so I've seen how it works from the other side. If you're looking at established illustrators, they'll either be pretty busy with jobs already lined up, or you're interested, you need to go through their agent. The established illustrators may also be pretty comprehensive about making sure everything is laid out in the contract, especially when it comes to rights. Like if you're All Rights to an image, they'll charge a lot more for that to make up for the fact that they can never access that artwork again themselves.
If you don't want to go the route of an established illustrator, looking at websites like Artstation, as you've already done, or even Deviant Art back in the day can show you some promising up and coming talent that's always willing to take commissions and won't be such sticklers for contractual details or premium pricing. But as others have said, in general, yeah, if an artist quotes you a price, trying to talk that price down, especially for a busy artist, is more likely to have the artist pass up the job than be willing to haggle.
Oh, don't worry, I wouldn't try haggling. I'm just worried that the artists that I like are out of my price range.
On the good news side, I've been able to bump in and out of Top Web Fiction's front page for the last few weeks. Unfortunately, votes expire after 7 days, and most people don't think about renewing them. I told my biggest batch of readers about the vote exactly 7 days ago, so those votes just started expiring. But, I made it up to spot #20 on the page at my highest point, so that was pretty cool.
I'm trending down now as the votes expire, but there'll probably be enough people to renew their votes to keep me on the fantasy-only page, just not the front page.
What do you do when an idea that strikes you ends up being too cliche, and every time you try to develop it you stumble into more of them?
It's intended as a Portal Fantasy story, where the characters end up in a sort of gothic fantasy world of fairy tales. I'm trying to write something that's kind of supposed to be a low stake first timer kind of thing.
It's intended as a Portal Fantasy story, where the characters end up in a sort of gothic fantasy world of fairy tales. I'm trying to write something that's kind of supposed to be a low stake first timer kind of thing.
There's nothing wrong with having cliches as long as you can make them work. They are cliches for a reason
I suppose. It's not like I'm writing the next Harry Potter or something. I guess I'm worried about the validity of telling a story, even if it's just for myself, that feels unoriginal.
I've been "developing" ideas for so long that I've barely done any real writing.
I personally wouldn't worry about it and just focus on getting a rough draft done. See if the ideas work when you actually write them out and see if in the moment you come up with a different way to do something that you like better. Your first draft will suck likely have ideas that won't work and have parts that aren't enjoyable. It's just how the process works and why most people have a number of drafts and lots of editing passes to make a good story.
It's easy to feel like everything has been done before. But well a lot of people search out things that sound similar to what they like. What is important is that your story isn't a direct copy of something and has something that is a bit different even if all the major themes are the same if that makes sense.
I'd write more but I'm at work and on my phone which makes it a pain to write lol.
You've been a great help.
I want to participate in NaNo this year and I think I'll do this story. Get it out of my system and prove I can write something longform.
Yeah I washed the last two times trying to write the same story so I want to do something new.
If you can find the time i would spend this month writing a 100-200 word story a day ,or longer if you are in a groove, of your characters doing random things. I find doing such things builds the character and makes them easier to write and it will get you used to writing everyday which should make nano easier.
That could work. I haven't even defined the lead character that much, plus there's plenty of time till NaNo to flesh this out.