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Niven Busch , my favorite author of psychological westerns like Duel in the Sun and The Furies

¡I wish all my readers turn out to be as undestanding as you are! I agree. Parenthesis are cumbersome. I´ll kep them only for single terms, and not for full sentences, and the way you composed it makes it sound much more powerful

What is the number of lines from a song that you can actually quote on text without incurring in copyright infringement? Or am I doing it just by quoting a line? Should lyrics in a foreign language be translated?

I am going over my manuscript .... ....and ridding it of parenthetical translations, either by explaining the term or just leaving it untranslated. However, I have a scene in a chapter I recently wrote where the protagonists are at a public place and everybody appears to be overhearing their...

That is another contradiction one´s text is suppose to be mysterious, but everytime a friend reads my novel they start "I don´t understand this" "What does it mean?" and not only are they confused by foreign expressions but also by literary or historical allussions. Here are a couple of...

Thanks, I am trying to do that but it doesn´t work all the time:confused:

My characters are cosmopolitan, polyglot and my story takes place in different countries, therefore I tend to include terms and full sentences in foreign languages. The protagonist and her family use a sort of personal lingo that mixes word from several languages. To me, raised in a bilingual...

To my eternal shame, I am not.. a Talkien fan (though by no means do I deny his genius). But I have never been able to read more than three pages from his trilogy. But my friends (who swear by Talkien) tell me what you have jut said. It was a book that had to be fragmented. I get the same...

I can safely say... it is an interesting premise:o , but it' s in the actual writing process where I find myself in trouble.Perhaps I do better in storytelling than in writing.:( By the way, here is a list of publishig houses that are looking for supernatural (or paranormal) romances...

My good wishes and prayers to you! Anyone who has survived the editing period deserves to be read with respect. I see that you are currently reading books on how to get published. Are they useful? I read several books on how to write a novel. At the time I was in hospital undergoing a...

I was surprised .... to find out that supernatural romance is indeed a new and popular genre.Apparently is a subcategory of gothic and mystery romance. It covers science fiction , ghost, vampires, werewolves, time travel romances, and , of course, fantasy. To be honest, I don’t know if my...

Thak you All advice is useful. Wuthering Heights like Brideshead Revisited is one great flashback. Going over my library, I see that all my novels (in English and Spanish) include flashbacks, but a friend told me that “twenty-first century novels do not use them anymore.” And yet I am reading...

My novel is getting to be so long, that someone advised me to divided it and turn it into a trilogy, but I don’t know how to submit it, if and when. I see that the market is crowded with sequels and series, but how do they work? Does the author know he is writing a novel in several volumes, or...

Thank you for answering I have heard that flashbacks are disliked by most readers. That is not my experience, and most of my favorite novels include them, and yet I was warned to keep away from them. The only reason why I chose to disregard the advice was that my plot spans twelve years. If I...

First of all, G-d Bless whomever invented this site because it´s the answer to all my prayers. I am almost finishing my novel or at least the first volume (is a trilogy) and it´s been an agony. I am still crammed with doubts, but now that I found a place where some of those doubts might be...

I love Rebecca and I was happy to learn that Dame Daphne was inspired to write it after reading Jane Eyre, both are such outstanding works. I read Frenchman´s Creek when I was a little girl, but I cannot remembered it and I get confused with the two film versions (the one with Joan Fontaine and...

In general I love long books They say that nowadays most publishers stay away from long manuscripts (over 700 pages) which means there won´t be too many in the future. My longest? Don Quixote War and Peace Les Miserables GWTW (my all time favorite) The Quartet of the Raj by Paul Scott

Wilde´s prose I find that Oscar Wilde´s prose is one of the greatest merit and beauties of his work. I particularly enjoy the thorough description of Doryan´s gallery of ancestors. I have yet to find an author that can be so deft and delicate in describing objects, and I wish modern authors...