Eric Ammadon wrote: > "Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)" <seaw...@sgeinc.invalid.com> wrote:
>> Michael R N Dolbear wrote: >>> Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor) <seaw...@sgeinc.invalid.com> wrote i
>>>>> And reading his work wouldn't tend to disabuse you of that notion. >>> I >>>>> can see this... >>>> Hey! Grand Central Arena hasn't been RELEASED yet! >>> So let me give a plug for the snippets, the first posted on >>> bar.baen.com 36 hours ago.
>> And I'm actually going to do three snippets this week, to get past the >> basic intro, so the next one goes up tomorrow morning.
> Bah, marketing hype, let me guess, is there a half-nekkid woman of > startling beauty on the cover?
No, the only layer of "clothing" she's losing is space armor, and that's only just started to happen on the cover.
Bill Swears wrote: > Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor) wrote: >> Eric Ammadon wrote: >>> Bah, marketing hype, let me guess, is there a half-nekkid woman of >>> startling beauty on the cover?
>> No, the only layer of "clothing" she's losing is space armor, and >> that's only just started to happen on the cover.
Bill Swears <wswe...@gci.net> wrote: > Thomas Armagost wrote: >> darwinist <darwin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> ten notes.
> These are useful, but none of the me are without exceptions. I'd almost > think that if you followed all of these suggestions, you'd end up with a > bog-standard tale that wouldn't hold all that many people's attention.
Pretty much the same as for all other 'rules' for writing then.
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Erik Trulsson wrote: > Bill Swears <wswe...@gci.net> wrote: >> Thomas Armagost wrote: >>> darwinist <darwin...@gmail.com> wrote: >> ten notes.
>> These are useful, but none of the me are without exceptions. I'd almost >> think that if you followed all of these suggestions, you'd end up with a >> bog-standard tale that wouldn't hold all that many people's attention.
> Pretty much the same as for all other 'rules' for writing then.
Well, yes and no. I actually did like the lineup, even though calling them rules will only please your agent.
Bill
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