Recent content by AetherialCore

I've lost confidence in my writing. Reading what I wrote, I begin worrying that my prose is confusing and doesn't paint the scene the way I wanted. I know I shouldn't disrectpect the readers' intelligence, but I can't help but worry. TL;DR - Do you get confused reading this piece of trash I...

my characters have no personality

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segs. by the way, i'm fine with massacres and holocausts in fiction. on an unrelated note, i also play rimworld.

past continuous exists? addendum: and bruh you don't even know how to correctly write dialogue tags for your novel. is this a joke and i'm not getting the joke because i'm dumb or something? i'm waiting for the r/whoosh, then 💀

maybe characters' thoughts and emotions, but filtering is not needed when narrating information, i think. "Smoke was rising from the hood of the car." is more concise and to-the-point than filtering the situation with "The man saw smoke rising from the hood of the car."

probably style and preference. but if it's a novel with a lot of perspective switches, then third is preferable to me.

do you mind filtering in the prose? if you don't know what filtering is: it is when the author writes the situation happening in the novel through the characters eyes, using unnecessary words, instead of describing the situation directly to the reader. for example. this is a scene with...

The mysterious stranger entered the room and left immeidately after seeing the place and having a realisation: this is wendy's.

First, thank you for clicking this thread. I would like to ask for some feedback on my weeb novel, New World Paradise. A chapter is about 10,000 words in length, and the prose is garbage, but I hope it's enjoyable. Thank you again. PS: asking for feedback is really stressful, for some reason....

Have you ever had that feeling when you want to convey something to the reader but struggle to find the right sentences to do it, worrying whether the flow of the paragraph or chapter was good enough? I know that a writer should not underestimate the readers' intelligence by dumbing things down...

for worldbuilding purposes. because memorising and knowing the differences between those things are crucial to either the fight, the plot, and the magic system and whatever. of course, if the differences don't matter, then there would be no need to make the distinction, and generalising them...

Valē! Victōria mea estne? i don't know, just flexing my (bad) classical latin after the guy ran away to chatGPT. damn the AIs are truly stealing people's job, huh. and... oof *died from typo*

yooooooo. the master shitposter is still reading the thread. sensei, please give use your score!!! which side is spitting fire??? wkwk