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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTUXlvOzgfg

She seems to scare the shit out of all of you. /lit/ has finally met its match. She would rip you all to pieces with your flaws, failures to meet publication standards and literary convention. You are puny to her. And you just can't measure up.

How do I know? She was my editor once. And I still haven't recovered for how thoroughly she ripped apart my ms.

x. She likes very few books, maybe one out of a hundred fifty clients.
x. She has personally placed those books with the big five and let them through for meeting her impossible standards.
x. Her schedule is completely packed. If she reads your book and trashes it, she's doing you a huge favor.
x. Her standards are so high editors and publishers fight to be the first to hear about her best clients.
x. She is a stone cold soulless psychopath who will see you as dirt unless you meet standards and conventions of the publishing world.
x. She is right. About everything. Although her notes castrated me, they fixed everything in my book. I even should give her a cowriting credit. But I'd rather not risk offending master by messaging her at all after the pegging I took.

>> No.12281253

>>12281241
Can you stop posting these absolute garbage threads?

>> No.12281255

I'm happy that you fell in love, anon

>> No.12281259

>>12281241
she seems kinda nice anon

>> No.12281268

Looks like a Irish boy with long hair. I would.

>> No.12281273
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12281273

>25 mistakes that peg you as an amateur writer
>peg you
If you insist

>> No.12281285

so what books did she get published?
Like, just because publishers love her it doesn't mean she sells the best used cars

>> No.12281324

>>12281241

She's married, OP.

>> No.12281341

>>12281324
I would never disgrace her perfection with something as petty as love

>> No.12281358

>>12281341
>/r9k/

>> No.12281371

>>12281241
this with the contrast of the "dont make your characters take out another homeless guy for dinner, this doesnt make him relatable!" advice is the funniest thing ive ever read

>> No.12281379

All her advice sounds so obvious, I feel sorry for the agents having to deal with this crap every day.

>> No.12281415

Click to search her history, apparently her literature standard is hunger games. To the trash this goes...

>> No.12281429

>>12281253
t. seething litcel LMAO

>> No.12281450
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12281450

Here are the seven reasons:
>1. You're not conveying the character's personality.
>2. You're talking about what the character is like but you're not showing it. >3. You're showing your character's least flattering traits without giving a reason for why they are that way.
>4. You're not conveying what the character wants.
>5. You're not showing the problem preventing the character from getting what they want.
>6. Your character is a stereotype or built on tropes.
>7. You're not including sensory information to place the reader in the character's shoes.

>> No.12281479

She intimidates this board cos she's got a job

>> No.12281503

Any more youtubers like this who talk about how to write etc. ? This is interesting, even though it's just about genre fiction

>> No.12281523

>>12281503

Brandon Sanderson has his entire BYU class up on Youtube.

>> No.12281525
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12281525

>>12281503
His lecture series.

>> No.12281849

>>12281450
number six makes this list impossible
what does she want damn it

>> No.12281860

ITT: git gud.
Its not her fault you cant meet standard practices and conventions in book publishing.