- #Starbound the funny pages where to find it install#
- #Starbound the funny pages where to find it mods#
Frackin’ Universe by SayterĪsk anyone the street (or in random Zoom calls you’ve crashed) if there’s one Starbound mod they’d install over all others, and they might say Frackin’ Universe.
#Starbound the funny pages where to find it mods#
A lot of the mods do the job well enough that there’s no need to hope for official implementation. I’m harder on female characters than I am on male characters.The community has given Starbound plenty of planetary additions since release. I came to this realization while reading “These Broken Stars.” If you haven’t read my review of the book, know this…I LOVED IT, but not at first. When the characters first crash landed on the planet where the story unfolds, I must admit that I was annoyed. This is pretty cool… one reader’s reaction to THESE BROKEN STARS was to realize that she’s a lot quicker to judge female characters for showing weakness than male characters, and come to love a character she’d originally hated. Amie (who, by the way, never once lost faith in Lilac) can vouch for the fact that I’d occasionally go “I can’t do this, I have to give her a crossbow!” It’s funny, because I had to constantly resist the urge to make Lilac more competent, to give her secret (and wildly out of character) survival skills so that she wouldn’t be useless in the beginning, to make her totally wow Tarver with her awesome specialness. I loved Lilac, and wanted readers to love her too… and that’s the easiest, cheatiest way to make a reader like a character. Make the character good at something, and readers will like him or her. But creating a potentially unlikable character who transforms into someone likable… that’s what I wanted to do. I knew that many (if not most) readers would judge her for her failings in the first 1/3 of the book. I knew that there were going to be plenty of people who’d make their decision about her character and stick to it to the end.
And that was a really tough choice, believe me, and one I may not have stuck to without the support of early readers. Willingly sacrificing some readers in order to provide others the arc you find more compelling is… rough. It involves committing to a level of trust in your readers that takes its toll on your confidence, especially when you can see an easier way out.īut that’s actually what has kind of amazed me since THESE BROKEN STARS came out. Yes, you see people saying things like “OMG I just want to SLAP Lilac!” in that first third. And, of course, there are people out there, I’m sure, who hate her, hate the book, etc. But I’ve been hearing from more and more readers about how much she grew on them and how much she came to represent for them. In a way I value these transformations of reader opinion even more than the people who say they liked her from the start (though obviously, that makes me glee too!)Īs an author there’s absolutely no feeling like doing something that was really, really hard for you to do… and then having readers get it. For a few hundred pages, those readers and the author, no matter how much time and distance separate them, are thinking the same thoughts and experiencing the same things. The increase in requests for THESE BROKEN STARS swag has fiiiinally made me get my act into gear and open a new PO box. So! Once more my deal with you guys is open: send me a SASE and I’ll send you goodies. (If you don’t know what a SASE is, click here. Very important part of the process.) Signed bookmarks, post cards, and, if you’ve written a letter, you’ll get a reply from me too. I do my absolute best to answer everyone!įor my address, click here. Remember, do not send me actual books to sign, as the PO box isn’t big enough to hold them-and you will get them back unsigned (or not at all, I’m a bit unclear on that!). Please note that we do NOT have signed bookplates for THESE BROKEN STARS.
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