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(view spoiler)[I finished "Archangel Down" and am now reading "Noa's Ark". Am really enjoying the developing characters, the dangers they're overcoming, and the tech that draws me to SciFi. (I'm so glad C. doesn't write "smut", or I would be forced to put the books down.) Is James going to get more clues that will explain who he is? He's a very enigmatic character. (hide spoiler)]
C. Gockel
I'm so sorry it has taken me so long to get back to you. I didn't envision 3.5 when I first wrote the series. I got inspired, and it just "happened" and then I added it into the series. But it is a problem that it is 3.5 as it doesn't show up on the Amazon series page. I'm not sure how I should deal with it to be honest.
C. Gockel
I'm sorry you felt it was off-putting. I actually love writing in third person present tense, I love reading it too, it feels like I'm in the moment with the characters. Especially once In the Balance and Fates began I felt like it worked with the story too, so many memories overlapping with the present.
Thank you for reading the series even though you didn't like the tense it was written in. I am writing the Archangel Project in the third-person past-tense ... I miss present tense and it seems to make so much more sense for Sci-Fi that takes place in the future! But I'm trying to be more "marketable."
Thank you for reading the series even though you didn't like the tense it was written in. I am writing the Archangel Project in the third-person past-tense ... I miss present tense and it seems to make so much more sense for Sci-Fi that takes place in the future! But I'm trying to be more "marketable."
Lisa Lenox
I didn't say I didn't like it- rather, came to like it! I don't recall reading anything ever written in that manner, so it was kinda like being a peg-
I didn't say I didn't like it- rather, came to like it! I don't recall reading anything ever written in that manner, so it was kinda like being a peg-legged donkey in a thoroughbred race- something I wasn't prepared for. By the end I had become used to it, and sort of missed it the next series I started reading.
Keep up the fantastic work! I love your universe-building skills. (sorry if that first post came across negative. Too much to ask, not enough space to do it so it sounds terse) ...more
Jan 28, 2016 02:48PM · flag
Keep up the fantastic work! I love your universe-building skills. (sorry if that first post came across negative. Too much to ask, not enough space to do it so it sounds terse) ...more
Jan 28, 2016 02:48PM · flag
Lisa Lenox
(The Ukraine thing comes from a Ukrainian friend who-in broken English- ranted about the way Americans say The Ukraine.)
Jan 28, 2016 02:50PM · flag
Jan 28, 2016 02:50PM · flag
C.
Lisa ... sorry, I'm not getting notifications from Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ for some reason. I don't think I will change "the Ukraine" because that *IS* how English
Lisa ... sorry, I'm not getting notifications from Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ for some reason. I don't think I will change "the Ukraine" because that *IS* how English speakers say it, even if it is incorrect.
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Feb 12, 2016 12:52PM · flag
Feb 12, 2016 12:52PM · flag
C. Gockel
Sorry! I'm just finding the "Ask the Author a Question" section. I never was notified and am now answering questions that are over a year old!
I write from a place of hate. I hated how Loki was treated by Marvel and a lot of modern stories. Chaos isn't the villain! We need Chaos in moderation ... Order isn't necessarily nice. Think of the Nazis, or Stalin. (***shiver***)
I write from a place of hate. I hated how Loki was treated by Marvel and a lot of modern stories. Chaos isn't the villain! We need Chaos in moderation ... Order isn't necessarily nice. Think of the Nazis, or Stalin. (***shiver***)
C. Gockel
I'm so sorry ... I just found this question (I don't visit here often.)
To deal with writer's block I just sit down and write even if I know it's going to be boring and I'll have to rewrite it. Sometimes this means I rewrite a scene 3 or 4 times. But it also means I wind up getting magic sniffing cats in scenes that would have been boring and tedious. (By the third rewrite I've usually found a way to make myself not bored.)
To deal with writer's block I just sit down and write even if I know it's going to be boring and I'll have to rewrite it. Sometimes this means I rewrite a scene 3 or 4 times. But it also means I wind up getting magic sniffing cats in scenes that would have been boring and tedious. (By the third rewrite I've usually found a way to make myself not bored.)
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