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    My Cover Art. Feedback?

    I liked it immediately. Sorry I don't have more feedback. ❤️
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    Its time to cook now.

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    Isolation and the ramifications

    I'll give you a discussion Paul :blob_reach: If the isolation of the character is a truly major event, and has everything to do with the story, then the author will talk about it enough so that reader grasps that the MC is "going through things" basically every day because of the trauma. The...
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    I need YOU to Help ME with the editing (grammar and sentence flow) of the prologue

    Then he cursed his wife who was sleeping in the front seat" Then he cursed his wife who slept in the front seat" :blob_okay: better~ Notice: when you write "was" instead of an action verb, you separate the subject from the action: The Boy was Hitting the ball - (Weak, passive see how WAS...
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    I need YOU to Help ME with the editing (grammar and sentence flow) of the prologue

    You're not wrong. How you're using was is not grammatically incorrect. Technically speaking. However, was is a "passive verb" meaning it causes the action to seem weak, unimportant. Not impactful. it separates the Person doing the action from the action. Also: " It was meant to express a...
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    I need YOU to Help ME with the editing (grammar and sentence flow) of the prologue

    January- Late Evening Tom Tailor drove his company car on a winding highway in Bulgaria. The darkening, sky filling with heavy snowfall, made it hard to see the road. Getting worried, Tom wondered if he’d reach the construction site before closing. “This is some blizzard,” he muttered while...
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    Holiday specials

    i don't think westerners take Valentines as seriously as anime would portray them. That's a "greeting card" holiday meant to sell stuff. But young folk are into it. so win win. But for most of us, on the far west hemisphere. Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years would be the holidays that show in...
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    Recommendations tragic demons

    Good Omens by Neil Gaimen. More about friendship (between angel and demon). not tragic. Adventure/comedy. I read it a thousand years ago and loved it.
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    too far...

    Text is written, and we do discuss writing here :blob_reach: :blob_hug:
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    How do you feel about betrayal?

    Exactly ^ ! @TheEldritchGod Eldritch, Don't blindside the reader like that. What you want is the reader to be also sympathetic to the friend, while also dropping hints as to why the friend will betray the MC. But the point is to get the reader also on the side of the friend, with more lead up...
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    Historical Fantasy Gripe: 'The Smart MC'

    Bruv, what you are reading are amateurs who strip the stories of all subtext. There's no true "story engine," where the MC gets to actually show some impressive knowledge to a reader based on an expertise that he has, like a good author would. So what you are reading are the copycats who just...
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    A question for Shakespearean fans

    Othello! See the movie with Larry Fishburne. He nails the character. @Agentt
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    Reader Reception: SH vs RR! (rant warning: f-bombs abound)

    Tiss. you folks went and found a handful of stories just to nit pick. And I'm not playing your RIDICULOUS game. anyone with two eyes, and spittle, not even A FUCKING MODICUM of sense in their head can see, when they come to this site, from the Trending pages ALONE. THAT THE MAJORITY OF THE...
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    Reader Reception: SH vs RR! (rant warning: f-bombs abound)

    my dude :cautious: Every. single. Effing day. you can go to trending and find that most of the top 25 have sexual nature tags. GB, GL, HAREm, Genderbender, ARE SEX!!!!!!!!!!!!
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    Reader Reception: SH vs RR! (rant warning: f-bombs abound)

    WOW this is delusion and the end of this convo.
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