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11 years ago @ http://muserantrave.bl... - Keeping Positive to Ke... · 1 reply · +1 points

Beautiful thoughts today, Melinda! I completely agree (hence why I call myself a Pollyanna :) ). It's not that I'm oblivious or ignorant of the bad things in the world, it's that I CHOOSE not to focus on them. I CHOOSE to be happy.

11 years ago @ http://muserantrave.bl... - WANACon: The Worldwide... · 1 reply · +1 points

Thanks for the shout-out, Melinda! I hope you're feeling better now. Food poisoning is no fun. :( *hugs*

12 years ago @ http://muserantrave.bl... - The Next Big Thing Blo... · 1 reply · +1 points

Yay! Ooo, the more I hear about this, the more I like. I love your x meets Y meets Z summary. *That* definitely piques my interest. :) Good luck in NaNo, my friend!

12 years ago @ http://muserantrave.bl... - Creative Procrastinati... · 1 reply · +2 points

Thanks for the link! And yes, I meant to read this on Wednesday, but I had one of those "everything blew up" kind of days, so my silent answer about getting here was "not right now." :) Better late than never right?

I love how you point out the difference between conscious procrastination and unconscious procrastination. And you're right--it comes to prioritizing. I've been doing a *lot* of that this week. LOL! Great post!

12 years ago @ http://muserantrave.bl... - Dig Deep for NYT Writi... · 2 replies · +2 points

Great guest post! Thanks for sharing the wonderful Margie with us, Melinda! I'm thrilled to be part of this Extravaganza. :)

This is an unedited paragraph of character description from my newest WIP (she's surreptitiously sketching a fellow bus passenger):

Her gaze stole across the aisle to check out her subject. As usual, dark sunglasses hid his pools-of-warm-honey eyes. No matter. A swinging backpack had knocked into him months ago, and she’d gotten enough of a glimpse as he’d retrieved his shades from the bus floor to burn the image into her memory. Eyes like that would make puppies jealous.

12 years ago @ Writerland - Should You Preschedule... · 3 replies · +1 points

As with most things I do--fiction writing, blog writing, etc.--I think about things from the reader's point of view. I attach hashtags when I legitimately think people in those hashtags or searching those hashtags would benefit from the article.

I do the same thing with scheduling. As Janet mentioned, if I think my followers on Twitter would get more out of a link if they see it at X time instead of Y time, I'll schedule it. Sometimes I schedule tweets for 15 minutes later (just to spread my tweets out). Sometimes I'll schedule them for M-F instead of the weekend. But I'm almost ALWAYS on Twitter, so I'm almost ALWAYS around "live" when they go out.

So I schedule tweets a) as a service to my followers, and b) so I don't forget to tweet it later (when it's a better time for my followers). I rarely schedule tweets for when I'm not around. I do occasionally--about once a month--but not an obnoxious amount. :)

Scheduling tweets is just a tool. People can use the tool to be obnoxious, or people can use the tool to get something done. Those who are being obnoxious with scheduled tweets are making the rest of us look bad. :)

12 years ago @ http://muserantrave.bl... - Mixing Genres? In-Dept... · 0 replies · +1 points

Hi Rinelle,

Then I'd stick with sci-fi romance, because technology--the fixing of it and the loss of it--seem to be major aspects of the story. :)

Many people consider post-apocalyptic stories to be sci-fi, and they generally don't have technology anymore either. So I think you're safe there. :)

12 years ago @ http://muserantrave.bl... - Mixing Genres? In-Dept... · 0 replies · +1 points

Good point! Yes, there is a soft vs. hard sci-fi scale within the genre. Most sci-fi romance automatically falls more into the soft sci-fi category, so I doubt it would need to be specifically mentioned. But it's good for people to know there's a difference so we're not thinking that sci-fi doesn't fit simply because we're more familiar with the hard sci-fi stories. Thanks for pointing that out!

12 years ago @ http://muserantrave.bl... - Mixing Genres? In-Dept... · 2 replies · +1 points

Hi Rinelle,

Ooo, that's a great question. I'm not big into the sci-fi genre like I used to be, but I *think* many sci-fi stories aren't specifically about Earth-future. They might not specify a planet at all. I think if the story has a futuristic feel, sci-fi would fit.

Is the heroine's planet advanced or not? If her planet has futuristic aspects, I think you'd be completely safe going sci-fi.

If her planet is not advanced, maybe try to measure how many of the obstacles focus on technology or something else. Like if her planet has mysticism or is a typical fantasy-type planet and more of the obstacles are *not* technology related, maybe something like "fantasy romance with sci-fi elements" would work?

I hope these "thought questions" help! :) Good luck and thanks for the comment!

12 years ago @ http://muserantrave.bl... - Mixing Genres? In-Dept... · 0 replies · +1 points

No worries--I understand that "at least I'm not alone" feeling. :)

And if you think "steampunk fantasy" describes your story, I'd use that label. Like I said, as soon as I thought of those two words together, my brain woke up and said, "Hello! That would be cool!" LOL! So if others have the same reaction, you could have a winner of a label...again, assuming that actually DOES describe the story. :) I hope that helps!

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