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Okay, so here is the information we aren’t privy to in the above paragraph (not taken from a beta manuscript, just a few lines I made up that are representative of many past beta reads). This was going to be an interesting night. “What’ll it be?” asked the man behind the bar, his voice a low growl. The man walked into the bar and sat down with a weary sigh. These slow, spoon-fed introductions always makes me think of some cheesy anime character intro where they make their grand entrance to the show in silhouette. When authors dangle tidbits of information and invite readers to piece the puzzle together, it makes readers work too hard, rather than being able to sit back and enjoy the story– and that often means readers will stop reading and pick up a different book. In the first few pages, it is courteous to readers to clearly introduce your MC’s name, age, and identity. It’s happened more than a couple times that my very first, page one comment on a manuscript is that the author is trying to be too mysterious in the first couple paragraphs. □ As always with these sort of posts, I’m not claiming I’m some genius master writer, but I do firmly stand by this list. I thought it might be helpful to type up a list for anyone who is just starting out writing–I know a lot of people are using their self-isolation time to start a new WIP for Camp NaNoWriMo, for example. Stay tuned for more updates.I’ve done a lot of beta-reading in my day, and I find that my critique points often align along the same sort of issues. Google to stop supporting voicey android#On a related note, Google will stop providing Play services updates to Android 4.1-4.3 Jelly Bean users from next month. ![]() Most of them must have even stopped functioning. The devices that still run on Android versions will lose sign-in support to Google Apps stopped receiving operating system updates a long time ago. Only a limited number of people will be affected by this change, most of which will be Android device collectors or occasional users. Users running Android 3.0 Honeycomb and above will be able to sign-inĪndroid 3.0 Honeycomb or later version will be required to sign in and use Google applications on devices. Creating a new account on an old device that runs on any of the above mentioned Android versions. Google to stop supporting voicey password#
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