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@AmyBlakeCastle

im a writer i swear

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a black cat@AmyBlakeCastle·
I'm thinking 6.99 is probably a fair price for a short book like this... though the greedy in me wants to increase the price to something like 10.99. I'll just set the price to 6.99 for both print and ebook instead.
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I'm going to write 30,000 words and call it a book. What is the minimum required for a printed book on Amazon anyway? 118 pages? Is that 250 words per page or 300 words per page? 120 x 250 is 30,000...

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a black cat@AmyBlakeCastle·
Back to the grindstone. ✍️
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a black cat@AmyBlakeCastle·
@franfran2424 @Imedem_ @her_eloquence "Highly kid friendly" is newspeak for "dumbed down" so it can be memorized for a test and then forgotten about later. How much info do you even remember from school books right now? It is not "most" it is "some". Well explained concepts are remembered for life.
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a black cat@AmyBlakeCastle·
Why is there so much non-writer business on my timeline?
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Bestselling Author Justina Luther 📚📖📝
Bestselling Author Justina Luther 📚📖📝@JustinaLuther·
Things that are dangerous to do in the writing community: 1. Sharing your work online before publication. 2. Sharing story ideas before the book is set for publishing. (Not talking sending manuscripts to agents.) 3. Sending to non verified beta readers. #Writing_Community
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a black cat@AmyBlakeCastle·
@Fiannawolf2 I am this way too. Sometimes, I just can't get passed the first paragraph.
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dahlia@elitesmansion·
@tenthousanclaps I take around 100mgs of adhd medication a day😃 Its still not an excuse to find reading 200 pages of a random type of book humanely impossible
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✨💜 King 💜✨@king_reinhardt·
I think the thing about AI "writers" that bothers me the most is, if you don't wanna write, why do you wanna be a writer? It makes no sense.
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Pamphlets Peronista (Cuenta secundaria)
Pamphlets Peronista (Cuenta secundaria)@PamphletsPeron·
Lo que tuitea tu amigo mogolico que tiene la capacidad de atencion frita por Tik Tok:
a black cat@AmyBlakeCastle

@her_eloquence If academic books were written like any published historical novel, yes it could be read in a day. The problem with academic books is they remove any and all interesting details, making it an exhausting read. It's like it's designed to test our patience.

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a black cat@AmyBlakeCastle·
@BerlinSoul @her_eloquence I never said they were fiction. Novel just means book. It has nothing to do with genre, which is fiction and non-fiction.
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Frischluftfanatikerin - BE@BerlinSoul·
@AmyBlakeCastle @her_eloquence I’m not talking about historical novels but books written by historians, aka, scientific books. If you don’t know the difference between historical fiction and historical academic books, then I can see why you struggle with school books
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a black cat@AmyBlakeCastle·
I'm being called a 12 year old or accused of having a tiktok attention span because I care about how entertaining school books for kids should be. They're used to attacking the person instead of the argument so they unfortunately only understood half of my intent.
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a black cat@AmyBlakeCastle·
@BerlinSoul @her_eloquence You'll note that I praised historical novels specifically, so yes I have read good ones recently. I'm criticizing specific types of academic books, such as school books.
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a black cat@AmyBlakeCastle·
@Smuckerdoodle6 @her_eloquence "Interesting details" are fun details that reinforce concepts and ideas that makes it easier to remember. I'm mostly referring to books for school kids, who struggle with attention spans as it is, but unnecessary detail falls into the category of "doesn't add anything useful."
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Smuckerdoodle@Smuckerdoodle6·
@AmyBlakeCastle @her_eloquence How many “interesting details” would make a biology textbook appealing to someone who sees passing biology as a hurdle to jump over instead of something useful or interesting? And what would be sacrificed to put them in there?
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a black cat@AmyBlakeCastle·
@DanNEO_SS @her_eloquence Yeah, unnecessary details are super annoying. If those unnecessary details were instead interesting plus reinforcing information and concepts, it would be more fun to read. A lot of academic books just... don't.
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DanNeo S.S. ✮ 𓂃🖊@DanNEO_SS·
@AmyBlakeCastle @her_eloquence In fact, many academic/non-fiction books tend to be padded with unnecessary detail, they’re super stretched out. If I remember correctly, an app even gained popularity by trimming this excess and delivering condensed versions of such books.
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a black cat@AmyBlakeCastle·
@OrwellNGoode I was actually rejected because I signed an NDA. Not as foolproof as you think.
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Bolu.dev👽@boluintech·
@her_eloquence @lu_lu_x There’s no way you can read 200 academic pages and understand 80% of the content in a day. It’s not just possible. The only reason fiction you can read the fiction is because you don’t have to memorize or cram it
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