Yes, lol. That would actually be kinda fun. We can go to Waterstones or something and sit down and write.
(Yes, so I may watch the French one next).
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I heard a saying from an Olympic athlete once that goes along the lines of “when you are trying to accomplish something extremely difficult, the training experience will be broken up into thirds. 1/3rd of it will be fantastic and you’ll love what you’re doing + you’ll feel encouraged, 1/3rd will be so awful that you’ll want to quit more than anything + you’ll feel discouraged, and 1/3rd of it will be like “meh…” somewhere in between.” I think that applies to writing a book for sure. It’s absolutely a love/hate relationship. But it’s important to keep fighting all the same!
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Got my cover from the publisher today, FINALLY. I’m so so happy with it. It’s the complete opposite of what I said I wanted, but it really is gorgeous.
Finally got my release date for the 20th September, so only 6 days!!
Still on my guard about it, but as they’ve got the cover and this new manager really is good at communication, I’m silently confident.
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It looks great.
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It looks professional.
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Amazing! Congrats. That is a short turnaround for the release
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Honestly sounds like a plan. Maybe rent a cottage somewhere.
Cool cool lemme know what you think.
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Lol, somewhere random. 
Okais.
Lol a cabin in the woods. Deffo not getting murdered by zombies… deffo
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Haha, or we can go to the beach. Beach apartments.
Sigh. Yet again I’m getting into an exchange with others about the concept of genres and I’m not winning them over.
Should I stop trying to talk to fellow writers about it? It really does feel like no one is interested and rather happy with repeating the same concept that majority has thrust upon us. Keep those new ideas out (not my ideas, btw, I didn’t invent this).
I’m not trying to convert anyone to think my way.
I’d just love it if for once I found someone whose brain worked like mine. 
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Oooh, you sound like me when I try to explain what literary fiction is and isn’t. Very frustrating! So what’s your concept of genres?
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I like how Shawn Coyne categorizes them in Story Grid.
(forgive me, I’m going to copy and paste what I wrote elsewhere because I’m lazy).
Summary
I think the word genre gets confused because different people give it a different meaning.
I prefer to split up genre types first.
There are reality genres: factualism, realism or fantasy, etc.
Time genres: past (historical), present (contemporary), or future (futuristic).
There are length genres: short stories, novellas, novels, series.
There are style genres: comedy, drama, theatrical, cinematic, cartoon.
And there are content genres: action, horror, love, status, etc.
Any story will have a combination of each of these types of genres.
Why would you want to split it up like this?
It’s a tool for the writer to figure out their own story but then later to communicate it to others.
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I’m not talking about commercial genres which decide which bookshelf to put a book into. I’m talking about what goes into a book. What makes one book better than another and that is knowing what type of a story it is and then doing the best job at that type of story.
The reason why I’m talking about genres is because it helps to identify the content genre when you’re trying to plan or fix your story. Find a story of the same genre and see how they satisfied the obligatory moments and Conventions to inspire yourself.
So in case of is it literary or not, I think that counts as a style genre. A story can be of any content and reality genre and still be considered literary.
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I do that all the time.
I find that it helps me get into my characters heads and also to catch faulty logic or poor flow.
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At the very least, any given book fitting more than one genre is not that difficult to understand. But most people are cookie cutter, and you’re giving them away to mix-up customization. Of course people are going to balk that.
Now, you know me and my lazy streak: I’m not doing all this work. But conceptually, this shouldn’t be a fight.
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I’m not expecting everyone to get it. People think differently about their stories. There’s no right way or wrong way.
It’s just disappointing that I can’t find my peeps who don’t mind looking closer at what makes a story tick.
They do exist, I’ve seen them on the interwebs, it’s just that I haven’t had luck spotting them in the wild.
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I’m game for about half of it.
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I really would love to figure out how to write stories that make people swoon, but I am afraid your approach is so complicated, it makes me more depressed/hopeless about writing. However, I think that you delight in it is awesome.
And, I am done with my business travel. I kindda liked driving through Alberta’s countryside. It was pretty and I wish I could go mushroom picking. But it was so dry…
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11.5k words of a prequel (first draft) which for now, I’m calling “Rise of an Heiress”. Definitely something I want to change, but for now. 
I stopped editing Without Parole for a bit. I know it’s supposed to be obvious, but if the prequel leads into Without Parole, there are going to be some personality/things that happen in WP that are a result of the prequel. I still want WP to be a standalone, but for those starting w/ the prequel (assuming I finish it), I want them to see the relation by the time they get to WP. Understand the characters deeper because they experienced “book 1.”
So uhh, how long did it take the Harry Potter author to create her universe again? Like 7 years? More? 
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We rarely get cool and moist enough at the same time for oyster mushrooms and bracket fungus. Last year, my mother was still alive.
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