Jane-Holly Meissner followed God’s busy. Can I help you?
God’s busy. Can I help you?
"God’s busy. Can I help you?" When you pray, it’s not only God who hears you. Asmodeus, the youngest Prince of Hell, hears you very clearly. And he’s willing to help you... at a price.
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Hullo the Fire! 

After sending query letters and manuscripts to more than a few publishing houses and literary agents, all to no avail, I’m very happy that Watchfires Against The Lord has found a home here on Inkshares. I believe in this book and in its message, and it’s been extremely encouraging to find other writers here who have shown interest. Thank you all so much, and I hope to see our tribe grow in the months to come. 

Here’s a little about my game plan for publication. As a pastor and theology student, I have something of a potential  readership outside Inkshares, but I want to make sure the campaign starts as strong as possible and reaches both the Inkshares tribe and my other communities effectively and simultaneously. To that end, I’ve been working with a musician friend to write and produce a men’s choir piece that will be turned into a promotional music video, hopefully sometime in October. Once the trailer is ready, I will also have a friend  who runs a production company interview me, and these videos will be released on Inkshares and to my network. Then the hard work of the campaign will begin. In the meantime I will be uploading a few more sample chapters and excerpts, including an excerpt from chapter 5 and a summary/outline that are going up today. 

Again, thanks for your support! I will be happy to trade recommendations with anyone, exchange advice or opinions, or even a full read/copy/developmental edit if anyone is interested. 

Happy writing,

J. 

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    Jane-Holly Meissner liked the forum thread, where do you have trouble
    @Jane-Holly Meissner: I tend to act out everything in my stories, which leads to a lot of weird/funny faces, exaggerated hand motions, and figuring out how a person lands when they trip and falls.

    Naming can be rough, but with places or buildings I look to how we name things in real life. I have a ton of buildings that are named after weird and interesting people, giving the location a sense of history and totally adding to the world building. People names, well, all my names are ridiculous, but I wanted them all to have a resonating syllable beat.
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      Jane-Holly Meissner liked the forum thread, where do you have trouble
      I hate describing stuff. Hair, eyes, clothes, setting - blech, I wish I could skip it all. I pretty much leave that kind of stuff to my second or third pass through a scene; it slows me down and I just end up frustrated if I try to do it when I write the scene for the first time.
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        Jane-Holly Meissner commented on an excerpt of The Adventures of MONOMAN
        WELL in that case, you wrote it perfectly, lol!
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          “Good and evil are nothing but arbitrary boundaries, begging to be crossed.” he waved a screwdriver around as he spoke, “Like the skin.”
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          “Good and evil are nothing but arbitrary boundaries, begging to be crossed.” he waved a screwdriver around as he spoke, “Like the skin.”
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          If he’s going to spin to face the loiterer then you need a sentence that states that MONOMAN has started to turn away from him. Otherwise this reads like he’s pirouetting while flapping his hands, or perhaps aggressively shaking the other guy’s hand. ;)
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