What are you reading
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Animo
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Drago
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Dave Draper's Brother Iron, Sister Steel is a similarly good read.
Reynard
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Revisiting Jack Campbell's (John Hemery) Lost Fleet series. Just started the second book of the sextet aka "Fearless"
Have you read the three Brawn books for some proper bro science?
Drago
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Alas, no.
ColinJ
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I was walking back from Aldi this afternoon and I spotted a load of books chucked in a roadside skip. Some were in a very poor condition but I picked up 3 that looked ok and worth reading, though I haven't started yet...
wakemalcolm
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My Facebook news feed really wants me to read a book called 'le tour' by Edwin Strong.
It has all the hallmarks of being self published pap and ominously has no reviews so far. Anyone heard of it?
It has all the hallmarks of being self published pap and ominously has no reviews so far. Anyone heard of it?
AndyRM
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Only because I've read one of the author's other books, The Best Seller, which wasn't very good. Edwin Strong appears to be a character that the author, RSJ Steel, seems to be a character he's trying to develop into a series.
ETA: I wouldn't bother.
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wakemalcolm
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Cheers for that. My mate who boasted that everyone has a book in them once self published a tome so poor that the main character changed from the 3rd person to the 1st person halfway through.
AndyRM
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I think a lot of art is like that. People see/read/hear something relatively simple and think "Yeah I'll have a crack at that". Then reality hits and people realise it's a lot harder than it seems.
I'd recommend the "Belinda Blinked" series, and the accompanying "My Dad Wrote a Porno" podcast if you want a fine example of self publishing.
Dogtrousers
Lefty tighty. Get it righty.
Heretics and Believers - a history of the English reformation, Peter Marshall. It's tough going cos it's a proper history book and pretty dense and easy to get bogged down and suddenly a character introduced 20 pages ago becomes important, and I'm left wondering who TF is he? But I promised myself I'd get a grip on this period as I only really have a rough idea about it. I'm over half way through which bodes well, as I normally fail early on with tough reads like this.
Reynard
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I've written (and write) professionally across a number of different genres - academic, sports journalist, fiction and poetry. And yes, you do have to plan and put the effort in. And write and re-write and polish and keep polishing. It's about good grammar, the right choice of words and putting your ideas across in a way that's accessible.
Writing is a skill that has to be learned and then worked at, just like welding, say, or playing the piano. The harder you work, the easier it gets, although that's relative.
Everyone has plot bunnies bouncing around in their head, but not everyone has the skill to turn them into something that's both readable and enjoyable. Classic case in point are the stories on sites like fanfic.net - for every piece that draws you in, that's of a professional standard, there's a whole load of utter dross that you give up on after a paragraph or two.
AndyRM
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"Plot bunnies" I like that a lot!
Be honest, you were thinking of Literotica there weren't you?
