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Allen Taylor commented
If you do it all yourself, nothing. I recommend outsourcing everything you can't do yourself. The weakest areas for most self-publishers are cover art and editing. You can get a good e-book cover for $60. Some cover artists, depending on genre, skill and experience, will do a cover for $30. I'd recommend staying within that … Read more
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Allen Taylor answered Yo Kass' question

My experience in digital self-publishing is relegated to PDF files, the Kindle format, and ePub through Smashwords. There is a lot more that you can learn and other formats you can publish in.

With PDF files, I recommend downloading a copy of Open Office. This is an open source word processing platform … Read more

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Allen Taylor answered Anonymous' question

  • Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of ...)
  • Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock (Star Trek)
  • Indiana Jones (Raiders of the Lost Ark)
  • Ishmael and Captain Ahab (Moby Dick)
  • Louis Wu (protagonist in Ringworld by Larry Niven)
  • Don Quixote (Need I?)
  • Wendy Darling (Peter Pan)
  • Alice in Wonderland (Of course)
  • Arthur Dent (The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy)
  • Slacker (Flubbing The Universe by yours truly) :-)


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Allen Taylor voted up Joan's answer
  • Gulliver of Gulliver's Travels comes to mind.
  • Speed Racer travelled everywhere and did it very quickly. 
  • Thomas the Train was a traveller. 
  • We must not leave out Santa Claus, who travels the entire world in 24 hours and makes some very important stops along the way.  
  • The Easter Bunny is a well known traveller.  
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Allen Taylor voted up Miranda Innaimo's answer

Actually, the Bible states firmly that a believer of Christ should not marry or be partners, in any way, with a non-believer:

2 Corinthians 6:14-18 (NIV)

14 Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness? 15 What harmony … Read more

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Allen Taylor voted up Kim Snowling's answer

Writing a novel can be quite difficult, there is no magic formula for novel-writing.  Every novel demands its own structure, its own pace, its own way of looking at  the world.

It can cause you utter frustration and despair, … Read more

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Allen Taylor answered Yo Kass' question

Yes, poetry has evolved.

I tend to divide poetry into two distinct periods. There is modern poetry and there is classic poetry. Classic poetry is not defined by its forms or structures but by the dividing line known as Ezra Pound, the leader of the Modernist and Imagist movements.

Pound said to "make it new." No … Read more

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Allen Taylor answered Miranda Innaimo's question

In fiction, anything is possible. But not all things are profitable.

In short, if you can get away with (that is, if readers give you a thumbs up), then you can do it. However, 20 main characters is difficult if by "main" character you mean lead character.

Your lead character is your protagonist. You can have more … Read more

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Allen Taylor thanked Kim Snowling's answer

Writing a novel can be quite difficult, there is no magic formula for novel-writing.  Every novel demands its own structure, its own pace, its own way of looking at  the world.

It can cause you utter frustration and despair, … Read more