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Luke Fellner commented on The Burned
I’d like to ask my readers to read through my sample chapters and give me some feedback, preferably in a DM because a lot of comments haven’t been showing up. Thank you all!
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    Luke Fellner liked the forum thread, The Challenge of Descriptions
    In your first draft it doesn’t much matter if you write ten pages of dialogue with nothing else happening. It’s about getting words on the page. And that will happen more easily if you focus on your strengths.

    Later, when you go back to the scene, keep in mind two things: setting and purpose. What is the point of the scene? What does each character want? If you can answer these questions, it should be easier to determine whether each line of dialogue is worth keeping. 

    As Luke Fellner noted, you can use the setting to keep the action moving by having your characters interact with environment. But you can also use this technique to increase the tension of the conversation. For example, a character might squeeze the handle of her teacup or hit a tennis ball a bit more aggressively than usual to show she is upset. Remember that you can always go back and add these details in a later draft.
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      Sixty years after The Seclusion, in which America sealed itself off from the outside world, Patch Collins navigates the panoptic nightmare of a total surveillance state.
      Luke Fellner liked the forum thread, Pre-Order Swapping

      Hello Inkshares Community,


      Elena here, your friendly neighborhood customer service representative, with a PSA about Pre-Order Swapping. In the past few weeks, we’ve received many notices of these types of actions. We want to address this now before it becomes a more widespread issue.


      The goal for each and every one of the authors on Inkshares is not just for you to reach your funding goal, but for you to be a success on the market after publication. Books with broad reader interest sell better in places like independent bookstores, B&N, Amazon, etc.


      This means that the whole, “if you pre-order my book I will pre-orders yours” trend isn’t allowed, nor is it a sustainable method of crowdfunding. It doesn’t promote broad reader interest. Relying solely on this method would require you, as an author pre-ordering other authors’ projects, to spend $2500 just to reach the Quill goal, which isn’t feasible for most people, and goes against the democratic nature of the crowdfunding model.


      So here are our thoughts: if you have a genuine interest in someone else’s writing, you’ve read their drafts and you want to support them, that’s fantastic! If you make a deal with someone to swap pre-orders not on the basis of genuine interest in their work but solely to receive their pre-order, we cannot condone it. If you have any questions about this, please feel free to comment or email me directly at hello(at)Inkshares.com. I am always happy to help.


      Additionally, please see our Terms of Service for clarification.


      Thank you and keep writing the good write!


      Elena

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        Luke Fellner liked the forum thread, Trade Forum
        @Jacqueline E. Castle Personally, this is the only option I’ve tried so far. But I suggest trying to get published on here first, then go to a conventional publisher or self publish if your campaign fails. The amount of freedoms compared to commitment is pretty good compared to other forms of publishing. You dip your toes into self publishing your book, then you stop having to worry about it once you reach your goal. They also want you to be involved in the editing and cover art processes, when most publishers will take your story and do what they want with it. 
        My current choice is that as soon as I have a bank account (I’ve been having difficulties with banks setting up my account and am now two months late from when I planned on starting my campaign) I will start my campaign, if that fails two times for me I plan on self publishing through Amazon.
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          Luke Fellner liked the forum thread, Promote your Syndicate!
          It is December and time for syndicates to start looking for books to back! If you aren’t aware of the many syndicates on Inkshares, take some time to look at them -here-

          Joining a syndicate is a great way to back a book every month. We can recommend syndicate membership to our Readers as well.
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            Luke Fellner commented on The Burned
            I’ve been trying to come up with some out-of-the-box ways to advertise my book for when I can finally have it up for preorder, if any of you have any ideas you don’t mind sharing please DM me about it.
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