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It sounds a bit iffy, but when you think about it this is pretty good advice 🤔😁

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"Write like nobody is reading." -Tom Taylor

I don't remember seeing the word "sorcling" before, so I'm going to claim I came up with it 😁

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The council liked to see sorclings as expendable, but they weren't an end-
less resource, since no one knew why so few children were born with the tal-
ent for magick. Still, from the council’s perspective, the important thing was
that any child brought here was nothing but a sorcerer.

So what? We're not supposed to have any use for things like race or gen-
der? his Kor side wondered.

“No! They only get in the way.”

But whatever sorcerers pretended in public, in private, they were somewhat
aware of their own parts. But their ‘don’t ask, don't tell’ tradition, combined with
the rule that all sorcerers go by the pronoun ‘him’, stopped them from asking
personal questions. Just a few of the things sorclings had voice-beaten into
them during their first four decades in Administration.

I'm not sure about pride, but I'll try to feel less bad than usual 😜😂

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Post by Karen Elizabeth

Your friendly reminder that out of the 97% of people who decide to write a book at some point in their lives:
Only 3% finish the manuscript.
And only 0.06% make it to publication.
Writing is hard. Always, always take pride in what you do!

An embarrasingly nice review of my #WIP 😊

The Last Philosopher is a satirical high-sci--fantasy story with heavy-handed attempts at humour.

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I got Douglas Adams vibes
By Tim Wood on The Last Philosopher: Part one

Rating overall five stars of five.

[Part of a first chapter review]
I really enjoyed this first chapter, it made me smirk, and I had the voice of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy narrator's voice reading it in my mind the whole time.
I'm left feeling very curious about the world being weaved for us here and the wider implications of the cosmic happenings I immediately want to delve into.

Great work by the author, I'l be following.

This is without a doubt my biggest issue with writing 😂

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Picture from the Children's show Pingu with the penguin sitting on a chair looking annoyed.
Caption: When you want to read the rest of the story but you're the one writing it

The world had an expiration date, and Samantha Wen planned to die before it came. She just needed a little help.

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The cover of Lee Hauser's novel "The Immortal Remains": the title above a limb of the planet Earth, against a star field. The name of the author is emblazoned across the bottom.

Abby wrested her arm away, her face hot. “You can’t just — pop into my life again.” Abby swallowed, trying to force her saliva glands into action. The cab still waited, but Sam generated her own gravity, and Abby couldn’t achieve escape velocity.

“How are you? How’s Kenny?” Sam’s eyes moved back and forth, up and down, scrutinizing Abby as closely as Abby, in spite of herself, examined Sam.

With an effort, Abby took a step toward the cab.

“Do you need a ride?” said the cab.

“Yes,” Abby said, one hand on its curved roof.
The source of gravity changed. She’d become the larger planet, and Sam came to her. “We thought you’d never leave us.”

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Every sickly old sorcerer needs a small pair of rebellion, especially if they suffer from the handicap of being basically nice 😁

From my #WIP The Last Philosopher

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Warming his feet was his favourite personal item. A small pair of rebellion in the form of pink, fuzzy bunny slippers. They were a nostalgic connection to his short life before Empris. His grandmother had given young Lug identical slippers for his last birthday at home. Back then he had been angry at her for not getting him a Kor tattoo like one of hers.

But as a sickly old man, he knew only one absolute truth: Never underestimate the value of fuzzy slippers. Even so, the bunnies were not his dirtiest little secret. There was one other thing he could never let anyone find out. Something he had hidden deep in his subconscious. At the core of his being, he was basically nice. A terrible handicap for a sorcerer!

"All shall love my daydreams and despair!"
-Galadriel probably... 😂

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Post by C.G. Drews
i love the advice "write the book you want to read" because not only do you get the story you always craved, you also get to force everyone else to be super invested in the weird little daydream you just made up out of nowhere

... the airship was cold, and the carpeted deck was hard, even through the padded base of their sleeping bags, and Roxanne seemed unreasonably cheerful. Sam feared it would be a long week on the slow airship.

“Let’s have a look around,” Roxanne said.

“It’s an empty airship. What do you think you’ll see?”

“You never know.”

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Being part of the system to abuse the system is what I imagine they teach in bussiness school? 🤔😂

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You do realise that you re the longest serving member on the council? his loathing considered.

“So? It’s not my fault that the vote for evermore rules keeps going against me.”

Yeah! We have to be part of the system to abuse the system, his inner sorcerer growled.

With yet another inner conflict put on hold, he went back to blaming the boringly evil council, the group that supposedly governed magick for the best of all sorcerers.

Being as they were, magick users despised the rules but had no problem enforcing them on others. This meant that ever since Empris was founded, most had accepted the council’s regulations as a necessary evil.

I like writing and getting punched in the face, so I should be okay 😜😂

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Hand written note in marker that says:
Wanting to be a writer and not wanting to be rejected is like wanting to be a boxer and not wanting to get punched.
-David Barr Kiptley

The world had an expiration date, and Samantha Wen planned to die before it came. She just needed a little help.

If that opener grabs your attention, you can read the rest starting November 7, when "The Immortal Remains" drops in paperback (Amazon and Barnes & Noble) and ebook (those two and everywhere else).

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