anderlandbooks

anderlandbooks, 1 hour ago to random German

#pennedpossibilities 325 — SC POV: If you could relive one day of your life and change its course of events, which day would you choose?

Author: Max?

Max: Laodicea. No doubt about it.

Author: You sure?

Max: Yep. No matter how much I might have gained in the end, that price was too high. I'd change it in a heartbeat.

Author: No more questions asked, Max.

#OdysseyToThePromisedLand

anderlandbooks, 1 hour ago to random German

#wordweavers May 25: How often do your characters think of death?

Katja and Max are both young, and thus, they only think of death when in true danger (which does happen quite a few times, though).

The other folks of the crusade do it way more often than these two.

#OdysseyToThePromisedLand

anderlandbooks, 1 hour ago to random German

#writerscoffeeclub May 25
Do you use a cover artist or design your own covers? Share your cover art.

I used to hire cover artists. Meanwhile, however, I had some bad experiences and gained more skills myself. I surely do not range among the top cover artists - but truth be told: We all know how hard it is to make some good money with books. Thus, I've done the newest ones myself. The latest is for #OdysseyToThePromisedLand after some very good input from folks here.

anderlandbooks, 1 day ago to random German

#writerscoffeeclub May 24. Is there any work of fiction you could have written better? Don't be shy.

In my very own personal opinion? Heck, yes.
Will some people think the same of my books? For sure 🤪

anderlandbooks, 1 day ago to random German

#pennedpossibilities 324 — SC POV: If you could relive one day of your life without changing anything that happened, which day would you choose?

Max: Uhm. Not sure I've had such a day yet. Well, maybe the day Katja lost her patience with me at my mother's house.
That day was... noteworthy. smirks

#OdysseyToThePromisedLand

anderlandbooks, 1 day ago to random German

#wordweavers May 24. While writing, do you avoid or binge watch similar material?

When I'm writing, I can't read. I simply cannot focus on another story or get invested in another MC.
So, if I'm reading or watching anything, it'll likely be non-fiction about something I need to research.

anderlandbooks, 1 day ago (edited 1 day ago) to random German

#phantastikprompts 24.5.
"Wie verhält sich deine Hauptfigur, wenn sie gelobt wird?"

Katja wird nicht sehr oft gelobt, und es macht sie verlegen. Aber sie freut sich sehr über jedes noch so kleine Lob.

#IrrfahrtInsGelobteLand

anderlandbooks, 2 days ago to random German

#writerscoffeeclub May 23. What gets in the way of your writing?

The need to pay bills and thus earning money aka doing my day job.

And sometimes people who need attention for whatever reason.

Oh. And social media. Yup, logging off now.

anderlandbooks, 2 days ago to random German

#wordweavers May 23. Are your MCs picky about where they sleep?

As long as it's safe, no. If they were, they wouldn't sleep.
(And if it's not safe, they don't sleep (much) either).

#OdysseyToThePromisedLand

anderlandbooks, 2 days ago to random German

#phantastikprompts 23.5.:
Was würdest du im Zweifel eher ändern, das Ende, auf das deine Geschichte hinläuft, oder den Weg, den die Figuren nehmen? Warum?

Pantser hier. Also definitiv das Ende. Für #Alsterdiamanten hatte ich was anderes im Kopf, aber Leander und Sophie haben sich durchgesetzt.
Tja.

anderlandbooks, 2 days ago to random German

#pennedpossibilities 323 — What's a piece of advice for writers that you listened to and are glad for?

I believe it was Marion Zimmer Bradley who said something like writing is 10% talent and 90% practice (or 20% and 80%?).

Anyway, I remembered that. And though I felt I sucked when I started, I kept on writing for fun, and now people who have never met me give my stories 4-5 stars.

anderlandbooks, 3 days ago to random German

#TimeTravelAuthors May 21: Do you expect the reader to understand the mechanics of your story's time travel?

The... mechanics? Uhm, no. The logic, yes, but not the rest. I would have a hard time explaining it too.

#JulesNVera
#TimeCurves

anderlandbooks, 3 days ago to random German

#writerscoffeeclub May 22. (amended) If someone were to write your biography, who would you want to write it?

I don't want anyone to do that. Besides, my life is rather boring (which is a good thing if you compare it to the lives of my characters 🤣)

anderlandbooks, 3 days ago to random German

#phantastikprompts 22.5.
Was ist das ungewöhnlichste oder auch lustigste Schimpfwort, das in deiner Geschichte vorkommt? Wie bist du darauf gekommen?

Huh. Ich fürchte, diesbezüglich war ich in dieser Geschichte super unkreativ.

Sollte ich mal für die nächste im Hinterkopf behalten!

anderlandbooks, 3 days ago to random German

#pennedpossibilities 322 — What piece of advice, as an author, did you once receive but hadn’t followed? Looking back on it now, you might wish that you had.

Don't switch POV in a scene.
Cocky young me thought, pffff, I can do that, who cares!
It took me weeks later on to fix the issue after I realized what that does to the reader.

anderlandbooks, 4 days ago to random German

#pennedpossibilities 321 — Did your SC once admire their parents? Who else did they admire growing up? What about today?

Max?

Cue Max laughing his head off

I guess that's a sound no. What about today?

Max stopping to laugh, tilting his head, pursing his lips

"Maybe."

#OdysseyToThePromisedLand

anderlandbooks, 4 days ago to random German

#wordweavers May 21. Do you consider how your MC’s appearance may contribute to stereotypes?

Never paid much attention to that, tbh. But I never describe in much detail in the first place, leaving a lot to the readers' imagination.
That's simply because I don't enjoy reading lengthy descriptions myself.

anderlandbooks, 4 days ago to random German

#writerscoffeeclub May 21. Do you format as you write or do that at the end?

The minute I know that something will be longer than just a scene, I do basic formatting. I'm writing in word, and it simply makes it easier to navigate the document if I've got headers, parts, and so on.
However, I do the final formatting for ebook, PB and HC only once I'm done. They differ too much, so it's 3 different docs in the end.

I final formatted #OdysseyToThePromisedLand yesterday!