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Recent content by TimeBandit

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    Enter the mind of a Bandit

    Death to all adverbs I say, willingly. Why do so many aspiring authors tend to use adverbs? What purpose do they server? Is it just an easy word to come up with in the heat of writing? But do you realize that it only weakens your prose? I’ve been doing some reviews of works that people have...
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    Enter the mind of a Bandit

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    Enter the mind of a Bandit

    In response to some of the post here. Chapters or white space. I guess it is an individual preference on this. I for one like medium breaks (scenes that last just a few pages). The book that I read at night before I go to bed, actually I read 3 books, but the last book I read is fiction. I...
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    Enter the mind of a Bandit

    I’m a mystery/suspense writer. Well, more like a fool who jots down gibberish in an attempt to pass off as literature. Not entirely true, at times my fingers can bang out some fairly brilliant lines of verbiage that can pass the amateur editor and makes it way into the hands of some unsuspecting...
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    Enter the mind of a Bandit

    Just going to ramble here about another thread. Writing groups. Good and bad. A lot depends on you as a person and how you handle critiques, bashing, encouragement, and accolades. I have seen some wither and be stifled of creativity. Here is my opinion on the whole process. If a person...
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    Writers Group? Yes/No?

    Just a quick opinion on writing groups. Writing groups are good for completed short stories. For novels, I feel they don’t work as well. One reason is that lot of people don’t complete the whole novel first before asking for reviews of their work. But if you were to do a writing group I would do...
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    Enter the mind of a Bandit

    I would like to create a journal for this board, not a real journal, just a place to chit-chat and for me to unload thoughts. Now a journal means different things to a multitude of people, a daily event log of ones life, a place to put free writes, thought processes in the grind to plot that...
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    Point of View Hell.....

    POV. Doesn’t matter what POV you use for your novel. Here are a few things to think about. 2nd person is rarely used at all, and I can’t recall ever reading one in 2nd person. There are some short stories that use 2nd person. 1st person is used quite often, mostly in crime novels involving a PI...
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    Was It Plan? (A story I'm writing)

    Personnally I would not. I would stick to past tense for everything but you can do it that way if you want. The thing about is tense and anything you write or how you write is you have to ask yourself is it important that I do it that way.
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    Was It Plan? (A story I'm writing)

    I hope you don’t mind but I took the liberty to rewrite your prologue in the effort to show you a few things. You can read it at the bottom of this. Before I go on, I just want to tell you that these are my opinions and my opinions only. There is no wrong or right way to write. You choose your...
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