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  Writing Treatise Shorts II The Publishing Check List:                 Again, this is not a guide how to get published, but a thoughtful check list. Please see the link N.TAC.W’s guide to getting self-published in the modern era link in the description. I just see so many folks mess themselves up so wanted to provide a quick check list to save money and time.   1.          Whether if you are publishing with a venue or self-publishing do RESEARCH on the company. Reviews on their page often are artificial. Too many good reviews is a bad sign just as much as all negative reviews.   There are vanity presses praying on writer’s hopes and dreams hoping to make money. Rule of thumb you should not have to pay for the book to be actually published (there are some things you need to buy, but often than not you should not be paying more than a couple hundred dol...

 Writing Treatise Short I: Writing Versus writing and the Ego Versus the Work Writing at the surface seems easy. It is what we do. Yet, it is easy to fall under the delusion of writing well. Everyone writes? How hard can it be? Society is filled with writing and different types of writing. The key is writing well. This is the difference between writing and Writing with a capitol W. It is easy to put words on paper. Like so it is done. This is putting on paper. Not, thinking about what is being written. Often beginning writers just put words without thinking. A belief exits which the words serve simply as a transport to deliver what happens in a story as fast as possible to the audience. This is not good writing. It is not respecting word, character, setting, event, world, and audience as much as the story itself. Taking time to think on the words chosen, how they are shaped, the purpose of flow and decision. I catch many a developing writer at first throwing words on paper. This is...

  Book: Tales of the Bounty Hunters Author: Kevin J. Anderson, Dave Wolverton, Kathy Tyers, M. Shane Bell, Daniel Keys Moran. Pages: 339 Hard Core Scale: 2.6/4 Normal Scale: 7/10 Publish Date: 1997 About: The tales of the bounty hunters who the Empire hired to seek after Han Solo. Who are they, why do they seek the bounty, what happened in that search, and after. Review: A smattering of writers of different skill levels. Also tone levels, something interesting to reflect on. Who is Star Wars for and how we perceive and interact with it. The short story burn is felt at times, and it is acceptable, but there is scrutiny on how much telling versus a habit of telling. It’s fun to visit a book written before the prequels and with sequels in mind before the DST came out. Cloning is illegal because of the clone wars: 1996. I guess we need to take them each individually. The score will be determined based on average. Kevin J. Anderson: Therefore I am: The Tale of ...

  Comic Book: Origins Author: Clay Mcleod Chapman Issues: 6 Hard Core Scale: 3/4 Normal Scale: 9/10 Run: 2020-21 About:   A story about boy and his story that a woman named Cleo tells him stretching from the past, to the present, for the future in a terrifying world where mankind is written off for extinction by revolting nature and diabolic machines. Review: Arash Amel, Joseph Oxford, and Lee Toland Kreiger, and Jakub Rebelka help bring this wonderful world to life. A fine story. The art is crisp, the story epoch and epic in its tone, philosophy, and journey. Mythic proportions done right in a unique setting. It makes you care about characters of many types that usually get under used or over thought. Usually short comic sticks like this can get messy in art or story department, however, this large team does not spoil the pot and makes it all work to quite a masterpiece.    Origin, issue 1 Cover, 2020, Cover by Jakub Rebelka, copyright Boom Studios   ...