Thalslaw

Connor Marshall
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  • United Kingdom
  • Deviant for 14 years
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My Bio
Personal Quote: "That which secures itself against it's own fate merely dies a different death"

Favourite Bands / Musical Artists
Bach - TOCCATA & FUGUE FTW!
Favourite Writers
Terry Pratchett
Tools of the Trade
Brain, Paper, 'Puter
Other Interests
dialectical autodidactism
[voiceover]"Torment. I never thought that such a word would hold any meaning for me, but now I know otherwise." [tableau, a desaturated shot from the heel of a cyborg, camera facing down the alley at a trenchcoated man in a trilby hat. Rain, gothic architecture.] [fade in from black- a hand opens to reveal what looks like a wire locket. empty.] [fade in from black- a uniformed woman leaps, a dagger aimed at his kidney.] [fade in from black- the man stands, the wounds at his side fading along with the locket and her lying on the ground; her wounds reflected] [intro ends, with more cutscenes to follow :P]
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If you're not willing to work yourself to death over a piece of writing, don't bother. If you're willing to write but have never heard of editing, here's the list from the obvious to the specific. 1) Remove adverbs and adjectives. [Unless they change the mood of a sentence] 2) Rewrite 'everything' in a way that removes all redundant phrases, the aim is to halve the wordcount while still maintaining the story content. [only applicable to prose] 3) Make more 'parallels' in the concepts. If there's something about love/angst, make something about loathing/happiness somewhere in the piece. 3, E.G.) Prose [main theme in my book is sacrifice,
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Co-authored and it's got a very wide scope to it. There isn't a single topic covered by science fiction in the last few decades that isn't, at least, hinted at somewhere in the book. At the moment, the working title is 'Torment', but I'm certain we're going to change it. There is, at the moment, at least 20 characters: false protagonists, hidden protagonists etc, but every single one of them is used to death. 73k words atm. One thing that seems to happen is that my co-author writes, I write, I edit, and he reviews. I don't know who's got the hardest job!
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Thanks for da llama hav one back :D
Thanks so much for the :+fav: :-)
Thanks so much for the :+fav:!
Thank you for the fave.
Thanks for the fave!