Devon Pierce

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Devon Pierce

Devon Pierce

@DevonPWrites

Aspiring Author. Current WIP: A romcom I am SWOONING over. Avid reader. Mom. 🖤

Texas, USA Katılım Eylül 2020
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Meghan Douglass
Meghan Douglass@douglass_meghan·
Do you think it’s possible to write a thriller in first person from the perspective of the villain without giving away the twist that it is the villain until close to the end?
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Devon Pierce
Devon Pierce@DevonPWrites·
@realPeterCrerar On QT, the agents I’ve queried ask if AI was used. From here on out, I think I’ll add a sentence at the bottom of my query letter if the agent asks for email submissions.
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samantha ✨ is querying ✨
@mermaidwrites This is so frustrating!!! And then I'm worried about putting my own work into an AI detector because then what if it learns from my writing style?! It's such a tough, sticky situation
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🧜‍♀️ Writes
🧜‍♀️ Writes@mermaidwrites·
This is why AI detectors WILL NEVER WORK. This was my writing, handwritten by me ON MY OWN without the help of any LLM. I ran it through Winston and Pangram (two leading AI checkers) and here are the very different results. Don't be fooled. AI Checkers don't find real AI at all.
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Devon Pierce
Devon Pierce@DevonPWrites·
@AlyssaMatesic This is so interesting! I wrote my 2nd manuscript in 3rd person, rewrote the 1st page in 1st person and it was so much better/pulled my readers in. Did a whole rewrite and glad I did! Now it takes me a while to get into third as a reader. Everyone connects differently to stories!
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Alyssa Matesic
Alyssa Matesic@AlyssaMatesic·
It's undeniable: first person novels are EVERYWHERE. And some people aren't here for it, calling first person writing "lazy" and "juvenile." But does more first person mean the death of the modern novel? I'm not so sure... youtu.be/WmcnL_kFhMQ
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Devon Pierce
Devon Pierce@DevonPWrites·
Here I am thinking I can write a book when my third grader just schooled me over trapezoids, parallelograms, and quadrilaterals 🥴 #amquerying #WritingCommunity
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Devon Pierce
Devon Pierce@DevonPWrites·
@Holliiejanes @ClaraBenne9673 Based off everything I’ve heard and read, I’d advise against it not only because they’re old, but also wildly popular.
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Katy Metzger
Katy Metzger@MetzgerKaty·
It's a special kind of hell to see the type of book you just finished writing start getting more interest before you're query ready. 🥺
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Devon Pierce
Devon Pierce@DevonPWrites·
Curious how other #querying writers handle sending batch queries? I sent 6 or so about 5/6 weeks ago, and I’m debating sending another batch here soon. I prefer smaller batches, but interested in everyone’s process! #WritingCommunity #amquerying
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Devon Pierce
Devon Pierce@DevonPWrites·
@Kacey_Combs Also, the only audiobook I can think of with more than two narrators is Daisy Jones and the Six, in which I think multiple narrators was necessary. Interesting question!
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Devon Pierce
Devon Pierce@DevonPWrites·
@Kacey_Combs I prefer single, don’t mind dual, don’t care for multi. I find there’s always a POV I don’t care about and skim over. For timeline? If it’s done well and not confusing I don’t mind flashback chapters—as long as it moves the story forward and isn’t just an info dump.
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Kacey Combs
Kacey Combs@Kacey_Combs·
Question for the #WritingCommunity: single, dual or multi-timeline? What about POV? I heard on a podcast recently that a multi-POV with more than two narrators can be harder to sell. Do you agree?
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Devon Pierce
Devon Pierce@DevonPWrites·
@Novarrium Ah! Worst nightmare! BUT I actually saw an agent post about it happening often!
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Novarrium
Novarrium@Novarrium·
@DevonPWrites the typo anxiety dreams are SO real lol. i once sent a query where i spelled the agents name wrong in the greeting. didnt realize until a week later. still recovering honestly
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Devon Pierce
Devon Pierce@DevonPWrites·
@sanchez_m_m @KT_Carlisle ALSO, Lauren Kay has a free resource on her website where you can download a form and fill in your plot points and it will tell you what needs to happen around the word count. I didn’t word that the best lol sryyy
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Michelle Sanchez
Michelle Sanchez@sanchez_m_m·
@KT_Carlisle Right?!?!?! It's so handy!!! Otherwise I feel like I'd just be meandering through the story without things being properly connected! I wish there was an app to do the math for me though. I still loathe the math part!
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Michelle Sanchez
Michelle Sanchez@sanchez_m_m·
The only math I don't hate involves pulling out my copy of Save the Cat Writes YA to check the placement of my inciting incident. Goal placement of the inciting incident: 10% Goal length of my novel: 80,000 words Goal word count of that 10% mark: 8000 words in My current inciting incident placement: 8900 words I've definitely become more of a pantser, but I do need a solid structure and goal posts to keep things tight!
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Devon Pierce
Devon Pierce@DevonPWrites·
@sanchez_m_m I was just talking about how I never thought I’d be using so much math when I set this aspiration!
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