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    thats right.. me and my 62 men are going to take over the 7 kingdoms!
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    To me, it always boils down to the fact that 1) these people know much more about the market and its needs and 2) they'll do a lot more to actually get people interested in your book than you could ever do alone, so again, to me personally, the good outweighs the bad.
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    Thanks! Although honestly, I'll be looking for an agent myself because to me the benefits outweigh the costs, but I'll keep tabs on this too!
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    Ooh, one more I hate

    "Said is dead"

    No, I refuse to put "retorted," "inquired," and "ejaculated" everywhere because that would really ruin the flow of dialog
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    And it gets taken to ridiculous extremes. Because everybody emotes the same and you can't say that you feel someone is sad as you sometimes do in real life in a subtle way, but everybody's lips have to quiver and tears need to run down their cheeks
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    As for writers influencing you, for me that was Murakami. I loved his unique way of perceiving the world, the brilliant first person narration with all of it's amazing digressions and speed, and everything. He's been a big influence on my more recent things.
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    Oh yeah, a lot of advice on the Internet is completely subjective and yet some people latch on to it like its the Bible.

    Show don't tell shouldn't be the priority. Sometimes you have to tell or it's weird.
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    Oh yeah, the speed really depends on many things. The two chapters I wrote, I wrote in about a day each. Still no progress beyond that but hey! It's possible.

    Honestly, I've been kinda doubting my skills again lately, as I'm struggling to even finish a short, but I still hope to have it up soon!
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    Yeah, chapter length is really fluid, I think. There are books of 90k that have seven chapters and books of the same length that have 100 chapters, so it really depends how you want to space it out. Mendoza once wrote a book that was just one chapter in its entirety. He didn't divide it into chapters at all at first, but then his editor said chapters would be nice, so he said okay and made one. Just one.
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    Yeah, I'm aiming for 90k as well, but I can already see I'll need to be making cuts. My first two chapters are 12k so far, but I've written them so long ago that I want to rewrite them from scratch anyway
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Thanksgaming III! (Long overdue playthroughs are long overdue)

by Ayen on 11-01-2015 at 01:53 AM
Tomorrow marks the beginning of the third annual Thanksgaming Month hosted by Ayen's Reviews, and the first to be in video format. Thanksgaming is a time of year where we honor the games of yesteryear and those that came out today, and I look forward to sinking my teeth into this year's lineup. Three of which I will be playing for the very first time. It all starts November 4th!

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It's the final update!

by Ayen on 10-16-2015 at 12:00 AM
No more updates. Just reviews.



Finally figured trout out and I'll be able to get back into my weekly schedule. Now I have an extra week to get work done.

Catch you guys later.

New Camera, Lousy Mic

by Ayen on 09-30-2015 at 12:08 AM
A few of you know I started doing video reviews of late, and while I got a new camera I'm running into a boat load of problems with it, among other things. Here's a quick video explaining my situation:

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Activity will take a hit

by Ayen on 07-23-2015 at 01:00 AM
Last night on the toilet the following thoughts entered my mind: Just give up. You'll never finish a book and you'll never be a published author. So now I have to write a book and get it published to stick it to my inner monologue. Between that and the weekly reviews my posting on here will be cut in half as I want to focus on my writing. I love you guys, but you can be very distracting when people want to be productive.

I'll catch you guys later.

Movie Monday!

by Ayen on 06-23-2015 at 04:52 AM
As evident by this thread I have decided to branch out into cinema. Those who have been following me for a while will know that I already dabble in this medium in the past with my Mario, and Street Fighter reviews, but those were more looking at an adaption from the eyes of a gamer than your casual movie goer, so they may remain as part of my video games section.

Every Monday I'll look at a different movie and post it on my blog before sharing it here. Like my games there's no cutoff

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