Declan Conner

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@SurtseyAna Having thought about the math you propose, Tell if 'i'm wrong, but are you talking multiple POV chapters with character's having their own goals, but with an overall MC plot? If so, the individual characters would fall within the 7 plot scenarios somewhere, with 1 overall plot.

@DeclanConner No. Plot permutations are infinite. And in the modern era more plots have become acceptable. - Cinderella leaves Prince Charming at alter because the whole time she fancied the Princess.

Don't get hung up on creating an original plot, because there isn't one. It's about how interesting your characters are within a time-tested plot. Do you agree?

@SurtseyAna An example of a closed environment plot would be The Handmaid's tale with the main character seeking to escape oppression. As for the going over the horizon, any hero's journey with a goal.

@SurtseyAna Hmm, thinking. Try Lee Child's idea of 2 plots. One you are in a closed environment, and face adversity to overcomer, and the other you venture over the horizon with a goal to be net with conflict. It doesn't matter how many diff't characters and conflicts. The goal is the plot

@_josephine0_ Who would know? Take the mojey and run.

Can you?

@AuthorGoodwin For 16 years I've been saying that.

How often do you think: "I'm never going to sell more than a handfull of books. I'm gonna quit writing...soon." I've thought it loads. But 'soon' never comes...yet.

@otokyo__ As we say in Brazil. - Doida.

@SurtseyAna @CollingsMaccrae @DanNEO_SS Your reaction is the correct one, though when stated in reviews on Amazon and they mark you down with stars it can hurt. I had an MC who started out life as pathetic and now laugh when the odd review mentions it as his character arc resolves this

@CollingsMaccrae @DanNEO_SS Feedback is feedback - not advice. Feedback: Readers may find Katja's language offensive. My reaction: Thank you. I nailed it. Katja is an offensive character. (No changes).

I think this is a critical discussion @DanNEO_SS is leading. #5amwritersclub Feedback. How do we use it? Pro reviewer? Pay attention and apply all you can. Editor? You pay them to find objective error. Ignore at your peril. Reader? They are your audience. What they think matters. Fellow writer/alpha/beta? Listen and apply where it works. Creatives walk a line of learning and building style. Feedback is water to those seeds. It’s a skill most of us aren’t born with; we grow it with experience. Use feedback intentionally.

@progresswings @i_MubiKhan Is romance overused, you ask. Not really when you consider that in today's market, women dominate both as readers and authors. Same with agents and publisher purchasing editors. The publishing industry is a woman's dominated world just now.

Is romance overused in fiction ?

@SurtseyAna If you're exclusive to KDP, do free days, promote and the reviews will come

Kindle owners. I seriously need some reviews! Tell me is you think this is *dishonest*. Go to Amazon, buy my book, write a review. I refund you via Paypal.

@SurtseyAna It's against Amazon's terms & conditions to pay for reviews other than recognized editorial reviews. Be careful, you risk having your KDP account shut down

Authors querying. Choose your comp titles carefully. According to book publisher Macmillan's CEO, they determine the amount of advance in attempting to project likely sales from experience of how the comps performed.

@gemmaEdenham @king_reinhardt The synopsis only becomes easy if you write it before you start authoring the book. Only then will you know for certain if your story idea has legs.

Writing a synopsis never gets any easier, does it?

@MalindaDetweil1 Delusional

What do you call it when people think that one side of government is all villains and the other side is all heroes?

@MalindaDetweil1 All of them.

What is the most brainwashed religion in the world?

@MalindaDetweil1 Mortality as I enter my ultimate senior years. Never really thought about it until faculties started to diminish.

What frightens you the most?

@SurtseyAna So if I enter your garden behind your back and pitch a tent and set up a camp stove, you'd take me to court to have me removed? Or worse, you're in your bedroom, and someone enters your home and refuses to leave, you'd apply to the courts to have them removed?

I believe TRESSPASS without violence is a civil offence and not a police matter.

According to an industry insider on book publishing trends in 2026, who'd have thought. 75% of trad-published debut authors stories are mishmashes of 2 or more genres. I guess publishers are fed up of the same old tried and tested formulas. What do you think?

The importance of comps, according to the CEO of Macmillan publishing, is important in determining the advance, for them to know how similar books have sold. So choose your comps carefully. #amquerying #querying