Check out samples of my work, including a horror fantasy short story and the first several chapters from Out of Dark Waters!

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Fair enough. It can sting. When I was on RR, I got various criticisms, some of which still bug me. Fwiw, I think authorial vision matters, and the hard thing is that there's no formula for balancing it with critique. In any case, sincerely, I hope you can find a resolution you're comfortable with.

If it were me, I’d try to step away for at least a day and come back to triage the criticisms into roughly 3 categories. (1) You reflectively agree there is a fundamental issue. (2) You could execute it differently to connect better. (3) The reader may have been the wrong audience.

I strongly believe that critiques are never wrong in the sense that they reflect someone’s genuine experience of the text. But (while a critic is never wrong about their experience) they also don’t automatically know the correct fix.

Negative feedback is legitimately frustrating, and there’s nothing wrong with being upset by it. It’s an inevitable part of creative work, but that doesn’t make it feel any better. I’m sticking a couple pieces of unsolicited advice under this comment.

On Royal Road, I saw people say that they hated flashbacks and multiple POVs, and that those were bad writing. I feel it comes from interior monologues/flashbacks/etc. actually being such useful tools that they can be overused or used clumsily. But people take away the wrong conclusion from that.

Does the natural world otherwise resemble ours, or did the endosymbiosis create additional ripples in evolution?

That's so gorgeous, and strikingly uncanny.

The party advances deeper underground. #WipSnips

turning a big dial taht says "Sexism" on it and constantly looking back at the audience for approval like a contestant on the price is right

Thanks for hosting! In a rare moment of caffeination, I was semi-awake enough to do the morning session.

I'm currently writing a book called Oath and Memory, but I also wrote a book that has very little to do with memory. It does have wizards, swordfights, and Lovecraftian horrors though! #SffChat

#SFFChat Outro. Thanks again for hosting, Steve! And I'll echo your outro and tell people to go and get/spread the word about this amazing bundle, Trans People Take on the World! My book, Garden of Rotten Roses, is in there as well! 💜🔥

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Thanks for these questions! Memories are such an interesting topic to discuss!

If you’d like to check out the book I was discussing, here it is!

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