tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1859940184293909528.post5509022158077684625..comments2023-04-28T04:20:05.766-07:00Comments on WRITER on WRITING: Help From the InternetVirtual Strangerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01040333093180694172noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1859940184293909528.post-2800710397398546112018-02-15T14:08:58.580-08:002018-02-15T14:08:58.580-08:00Dear Peter Clines,
In my query letters, when appr...Dear Peter Clines,<br /><br />In my query letters, when appropriate, I've been telling people that they might compare my style to Peter Clines in 14 and The Fold, because the way you wrote the characters in those books impressed me so much. I can't really ask my friends to corroborate, though, because as it turns out, one of my favorite character traits in other people is "elitist," so most of my friends haven't read my book.<br /><br />Time will tell if I'm right.<br /><br />I'm commenting today for two reasons. First, because your treatise on internetiquette (I'm just trying it out--I might not commit to the term) is exactly the sort of thing I think everyone ought to read, judging from how hard it is to tell whether the People of the Twitverse are tweeting or if they just fell on their keyboards.<br /><br />The other reason I'm leaving this comment is because I just read an essay by Larry Niven in which he encouraged starting-out writers to seek out established writers whose work they admire and ask if the established writer (that's you) could see it in their hearts to, very kindly, cast an eye over a story that the starting-out writer (that's me) has written.<br /><br />To which my scoffing imagination said, well, that's not something you do!<br /><br />But I've decided to ask anyway.<br /><br />Here is a link to a story that I wrote called "Date."<br /><br />https://medium.com/@olivershiny/date-6ed57a381f1<br /><br />If you have the time and the energy, I would be grateful if you might read it and let me know what you think of it.<br /><br />Yours in the struggle.<br /><br />--OliverBooks and Bootshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14828738904430181163noreply@blogger.com