katevwrites.bsky.social
Psychologist and writer of stories with magical girls and big feelings, knitter, human & feline mom
www.katevisser.com
drkatewrites.substack.com
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Thanks for doing this!! There are some great tips in here.
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That does help! 😅
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Me looking for clues that one of these is mine:
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Yes yes yes!!!!
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👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀
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Congrats!!
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Dying to be in “need this or I will die” 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻
Thanks for sharing! Love the colors.
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👀👀👀👀👀
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It’s my upper YA fantasy romance!!
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😈😈😈😈😈🤫
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Thank you!! Makes sense. As a bonus, cutting my one adult comp will nicely shrink my QL word count. ✂️✂️✂️✂️
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Ahh I love this!!
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I think I asked this too so please disregard that question when you get there— and thanks again for your time answering these!!
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This makes sense!! Thanks ☺️
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!! This is such a great tip, thank you so much!
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Thank you so much for these, and for your additional helpful comments!! In addition to my question above about prologues, I have one more- if you’re submitting a manuscript as crossover YA, is including comps from both adult and YA acceptable? Or should the comps all be crossover as well?
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Question (if you can answer!)- I know prologues are controversial/debated, but what's your take on how intense they can be? Especially if they're short and the actual starting scene with the MC follows these guidelines?
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Exciting!! And only mildly terrifying! 😅😅
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I am so here for this energy 😂😂😂
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Mr. Crowley is such a great cat name
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I like silence while I write but make playlists for my MCs, so kind of both? There are some songs that so strongly remind me of my characters that when I listen to them, it’s easier to write in their POVs. So if I have trouble with a scene, I listen to one of the playlists to access the character.
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What sweeties!!
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Special additional showcase: Marceline’s 26 toes (!!) and tendency to pretend she’s a meerkat
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Thanks!!
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What if it is a romance though? 🫶🏻🫶🏻
(Also side note, love the Catra profile pic. Love that show.)
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Any suggestions for how to do this for dual/multi POV? So hard 😅😅
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Exactly! They’re my precious friends and I can’t do that to them.
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YUP that’s me! I couldn’t answer that question because I had too many favorites and didn’t want to leave any out 😅
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Okay I can’t help but throw this in here- one of my bigger grumbles about the non-extended editions was the lack of justice to Faramir & Eowyn so I love that the extended ones put them in. Faramir & Eowyn forever!
(Okay done now 😅)
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The extended edition is the only way to go!!!
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Not too early at all!!! Here for any and all teasers. Bring on the fun 😸😸
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🥳🥳🥳🥳
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Thank you so much for this peek at your process, and for sharing all this! It doesn’t sound cliche at all, by the way- the deeper into writing I go, the more I realize that a lot of it truly is “come for the storytelling, but stay for the community (and more storytelling).”
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Hi! Thanks for doing this ☺️ I have two questions: first, what do you like best about being an editor? Second, when you receive a new manuscript, where do you typically start? Do you read it all first, or edit as you go?