Recent content by Jakotheshadows

Pan the perspective to that of the villain. Show his satisfaction and what he plans to do next or just his reaction. it's usually jarring enough for a reader to develop a degree of fear towards the villain assuming there isn't already and then they'll have it in the back of their mind that it...

I prefer them jaded or burnt, makes for a stronger character than just oh he's a nice guy.

My inferiority Complex, which is kinda winning the prize fight in my head. I'm insecure about myself, my relationships, my friends, my skills(any I may or may not possess). It helps make for great tragedy material if ur a writer tho, I never run out of tragic scenarios for my stories.

I'm down but my internet is pretty sketchy so I don't know how consistent my hours can even be.

As I said above I keep getting bad gateway errors so far today. Its happened about 4-5 times now.

I had 3 unannounced hiatuses, and tbh it doesn't really matter because, Sh doesn't have the sheer click rate NU or other sites may have just yet. Also the readers on SH are pretty reserved, I saw next to no comments on my first work so its easier to abandon readers that don't really contribute...

Thanks, in hindsight the paragraph part at least seems super obvious I’m a knucklehead for not seeing it before this. The info dump part is something I’ve been trying to cut down on consciously but it just isn’t working it would seem.

I just started writing about midway through this month on SH and I'm looking for some initial impressions and feedback/suggestions on my story. Some of my glaring worries have been: - I haven't been feeling too good about the background on my first arc. especially the way I speedran through the...

There's a series called "We" that seems to fit that category, haven't read it myself since it's relatively new but it seems to have good ratings. Started out around the same day I began my novel and thats been around for only 11 days now.

Being able to write a full universe that can support further novels, without losing out on the quality, online authors often end up with one-hit wonders and that makes sense, but if you can keep writing and not just repeat the story with a slightly futuristic setting, and instead set up new...

Wow, it's just cold and rainy where I am. Thunderstorms and continuous rain. Perfect weather to write in though.

Tower of Babel was probably the inspiration for the tower as the center of the idea, but after that, a lot of it is the creativity of the author. Probably something akin to researching treasure traps and stuff to weed out the unworthy.

I mean the Hundred years war so much about the longbow having superior range than the crossbow but less penetrating power, it was a hard time for infantry.

I make faces depending on what emotion I'm trying to portray in my characters. It's not intentional, but occasionally people ask me if I'm alright when I'm trying to write a sequence that has me sad or angry. My friends started taping me when I'd do it as I write to rib me about it.

Holy Moly the CK2 experience in a novel would be nuts tbh