Comments on: Randy Wins! http://www.advancedfictionwriting.com/blog/2007/10/08/randy-wins/ America's Mad Professor of Fiction Writing Sat, 22 Nov 2008 14:47:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.3 By: Tami http://www.advancedfictionwriting.com/blog/2007/10/08/randy-wins/#comment-2594 Tami Tue, 09 Oct 2007 06:16:23 +0000 http://www.advancedfictionwriting.com/blog/2007/10/08/randy-wins/#comment-2594 Congratulations on winning!! But we've all known you're a winner even before James declared it. I'm looking forward to more on male POV. You'd think being married to a manly kinda guy would make it easier, but I still miss the mark. Thanks for all your help. Congratulations on winning!! But we’ve all known you’re a winner even before James declared it.

I’m looking forward to more on male POV. You’d think being married to a manly kinda guy would make it easier, but I still miss the mark. Thanks for all your help.

]]> By: Daan Van der Merwe http://www.advancedfictionwriting.com/blog/2007/10/08/randy-wins/#comment-2596 Daan Van der Merwe Tue, 09 Oct 2007 08:22:42 +0000 http://www.advancedfictionwriting.com/blog/2007/10/08/randy-wins/#comment-2596 Well done! I'm still heavy into snowflakes and pesky little things but I hope that the day when marketing will become more of a priority is not to far away. Thanks again for all your help. Well done! I’m still heavy into snowflakes and pesky little things but I hope that the day when marketing will become more of a priority is not to far away.

Thanks again for all your help.

]]> By: yeggy http://www.advancedfictionwriting.com/blog/2007/10/08/randy-wins/#comment-2597 yeggy Tue, 09 Oct 2007 11:44:30 +0000 http://www.advancedfictionwriting.com/blog/2007/10/08/randy-wins/#comment-2597 Great news, Randy. I've been away for 10 days - mostly at Conflux 4 in Canberra and have a lot to catch up with both on this blog and with my own writing. The way men think, huh. Now that's a challenge. :-) But then I like a challenge. Great news, Randy. I’ve been away for 10 days - mostly at Conflux 4 in Canberra and have a lot to catch up with both on this blog and with my own writing.

The way men think, huh. Now that’s a challenge. :-) But then I like a challenge.

]]> By: Jeanette http://www.advancedfictionwriting.com/blog/2007/10/08/randy-wins/#comment-2598 Jeanette Tue, 09 Oct 2007 14:38:42 +0000 http://www.advancedfictionwriting.com/blog/2007/10/08/randy-wins/#comment-2598 Congratulations Randy! I will definitely check out his blog. It sounds great. Enjoy your cool new stuff! Jeanette Congratulations Randy! I will definitely check out his blog. It sounds great.

Enjoy your cool new stuff!
Jeanette

]]> By: Pamela Cosel http://www.advancedfictionwriting.com/blog/2007/10/08/randy-wins/#comment-2599 Pamela Cosel Tue, 09 Oct 2007 15:01:17 +0000 http://www.advancedfictionwriting.com/blog/2007/10/08/randy-wins/#comment-2599 Congratulations, Randy. I clicked on your link to read James Braush's blog post. Got halfway through it -- and now have this similar question for you: What do you think is the optimal length for a blog entry? I found James' entry to be too long. It also was a complicated read (not that I couldn't decifer it--I just lost interest in what he was saying). I'm a fast reader and tend to skim things unless it really catches my attention. If it seems to run on, I give it up. His entry was too long for me. Now yours, on the other hand, are just right. And they're always interesting. I assume, as a writer, you are aware of entry length. Would like your comments on this. Thanks! Congratulations, Randy. I clicked on your link to read James Braush’s blog post. Got halfway through it — and now have this similar question for you: What do you think is the optimal length for a blog entry?

I found James’ entry to be too long. It also was a complicated read (not that I couldn’t decifer it–I just lost interest in what he was saying). I’m a fast reader and tend to skim things unless it really catches my attention. If it seems to run on, I give it up. His entry was too long for me.

Now yours, on the other hand, are just right. And they’re always interesting. I assume, as a writer, you are aware of entry length. Would like your comments on this. Thanks!

]]> By: Donna http://www.advancedfictionwriting.com/blog/2007/10/08/randy-wins/#comment-2603 Donna Tue, 09 Oct 2007 20:17:36 +0000 http://www.advancedfictionwriting.com/blog/2007/10/08/randy-wins/#comment-2603 Congrats Randy! I'm heading over to check out his blog. Sounds like there should be a party. Congrats Randy! I’m heading over to check out his blog.

Sounds like there should be a party.

]]> By: Lizzie http://www.advancedfictionwriting.com/blog/2007/10/08/randy-wins/#comment-2605 Lizzie Tue, 09 Oct 2007 23:50:42 +0000 http://www.advancedfictionwriting.com/blog/2007/10/08/randy-wins/#comment-2605 I didn't know if you were still looking @ samples, but I suppose it couldn't hurt to throw one in (and I'd love thoughts from the rest of you, too). The thought sickened him for a second. He hadn’t seen the executions of the West sect, but he heard the stories. Brutal. Maybe since these were the last of the Potogs, Klaro wouldn’t have to send such a message. Doubtful. But it was his duty to turn them in. They were corrupting his home with their lies and laws, and he had to protect it. He hoped he would return to it soon. He missed the town square already. I didn’t know if you were still looking @ samples, but I suppose it couldn’t hurt to throw one in (and I’d love thoughts from the rest of you, too).

The thought sickened him for a second. He hadn’t seen the executions of the West sect, but he heard the stories. Brutal. Maybe since these were the last of the Potogs, Klaro wouldn’t have to send such a message. Doubtful. But it was his duty to turn them in. They were corrupting his home with their lies and laws, and he had to protect it. He hoped he would return to it soon. He missed the town square already.

]]> By: Karla http://www.advancedfictionwriting.com/blog/2007/10/08/randy-wins/#comment-2607 Karla Wed, 10 Oct 2007 01:45:10 +0000 http://www.advancedfictionwriting.com/blog/2007/10/08/randy-wins/#comment-2607 Congrats! You deserved it! Congrats! You deserved it!

]]> By: Neva Andrews http://www.advancedfictionwriting.com/blog/2007/10/08/randy-wins/#comment-2610 Neva Andrews Wed, 10 Oct 2007 03:50:08 +0000 http://www.advancedfictionwriting.com/blog/2007/10/08/randy-wins/#comment-2610 Is it too late to post an entry about the male POV? I'm writing my WIP from the heroine's POV and trying to capture the male POV in letters. Below are snipets from a letter the heroine received from her fiance just after he intered the Army in 1941. "My dearest Jo, Life is so different here. I miss all the familiar places we used to go--the spot by the river where we rode our bikes for a cookout and I forgot the salt, the desert north of you Uncle Clint's place where we went horseback riding. Most of all, I miss the girl who had made them special... "Gues what. On the train to Boise,I met T.J. Holcome. He says you have a temper. I told him we grew up together so I know all about your temper. "At the reception center, they swore us in and fingerprinted us. I'm embarrassed to tell you this next part. We had to take off all our clothes and stand in line for our phsicals. A kid up ahead of me passed out when medics came at him from both sides with hypodermic needles... "We had to go to bed in the semi-darkness. I didn't even have a chance to read my Bible. I just spread a blanket on the cot, pulled off my army boots, and tried to go to sleep with all these men snoring in different keys. I didn't get much sleep that night. I thought I'd rather be sleeping in the cow barn back home..." Is it too late to post an entry about the male POV? I’m writing my WIP from the heroine’s POV and trying to capture the male POV in letters. Below are snipets from a letter the heroine received from her fiance just after he intered the Army in 1941.
“My dearest Jo,
Life is so different here. I miss all the familiar places we used to go–the spot by the river where we rode our bikes for a cookout and I forgot the salt, the desert north of you Uncle Clint’s place where we went horseback riding. Most of all, I miss the girl who had made them special…
“Gues what. On the train to Boise,I met T.J. Holcome. He says you have a temper. I told him we grew up together so I know all about your temper.
“At the reception center, they swore us in and fingerprinted us. I’m embarrassed to tell you this next part. We had to take off all our clothes and stand in line for our phsicals. A kid up ahead of me passed out when medics came at him from both sides with hypodermic needles…
“We had to go to bed in the semi-darkness. I didn’t even have a chance to read my Bible. I just spread a blanket on the cot, pulled off my army boots, and tried to go to sleep with all these men snoring in different keys. I didn’t get much sleep that night. I thought I’d rather be sleeping in the cow barn back home…”

]]> By: Daan Van der Merwe http://www.advancedfictionwriting.com/blog/2007/10/08/randy-wins/#comment-2612 Daan Van der Merwe Wed, 10 Oct 2007 10:51:31 +0000 http://www.advancedfictionwriting.com/blog/2007/10/08/randy-wins/#comment-2612 Hi Lizzy I don't see anything "unmanly" about your character. I don't say this as a freshman writer but as a man who over the past 32 years read at least 300 novels. Hi Lizzy

I don’t see anything “unmanly” about your character. I don’t say this as a freshman writer but as a man who over the past 32 years read at least 300 novels.

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