—Berthold Gambrel
Below is the video of our latest chat, in which we answer questions from Priscilla Bettis and Anonymole. Thank you for the questions! We’ll be recording more chats to answer more questions soon.
Video Chat: Answering More Questions
Let's Talk About Writing, Publishing, and Everything In Between
Writers Supporting Writers 
I enjoyed this conversation a great deal, particularly the question of writing to market. I kept wanting to raise my hand and say something! Same thing with the touters of the “Thou Shalt Nots.” The only “Thou shalt not” I received in the writing program I went through was “Thou shalt not deliberately deceive your reader,” e.g., “I woke up and it was all a dream” or on the last page of the novel, say, page 438, the first person narrator reveals that he’s a dog, not an angst-ridden teenage girl.
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Always entertaining. It is nice to get to know you guys this way. I number my scenes within chapters. Three blank lines, a number, and the text on the next line. My chapters vary greatly in length, and I guess I adopted this method to break longer chapters into a series of mini-chapters. I don’t remember how I came up with system, but I’ve used it in all my books. I like it.
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It’s a good system! 🙂
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Yes! Drop caps on ebooks look awful, and make reading harder, not easier.
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Thanks for that, guys. More?
• Favorite POV & tense? It seems that many of the successful dystopian/adventure stories are told first person present tense. Third person, limited, past tense is common and comfortable. Anybody ever try 2nd person, present or past?
• Along those lines, a century ago, 3rd person omniscient was popular. But delving into every character’s mind seems like cheating and is frowned upon now. Thoughts?
• When you first started out, what were the writing faux pas you made that you beat into your writer’s mind to avoid? For instance, for me, passive “was”, non-said dialog tags, and adverbs got branded as verboten in my head. You?
I could do this all night…
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Good questions! We’ll add them to the list.
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