Alia

@alia Yes! Are you still on?

@seekjustice Thanks so much for your advice, it makes sense. I’ll try to focus more on what my story needs instead of what I want 😀

@jenwriter17

Sorry its taken me so long to get back to you! Basically I think everyone else here is right, complexity is pretty much what makes long novels long.

Having said that, my novels tend to be on the shorter side. I love writing novellas and flash fiction and the longest novel I’ve ever written was only 100,000 words (not short, but not…[Read more]

@skredder Cool! I should be able to read it all tonight 🙂

@ingridrd I’d be glad to critique this 🙂

But, y’all, this’ll be my last critique/beta/alpha reading job for a while. The upcoming months are going to be pretty busy (a few trips out of town, getting my WIP ready for an editor at Realm Makers, my equestrian team season starting, beginning a blog). I’ll finished reading for @skredder and @seekjusti…[Read more]

@warrenluther04 aw I won’t be going to California this year (actually, probably not until 2019 or 2020 🙁 )

How was your hiatus? 🙂

@daeus Okay.  Thank you!  Its still helpful!

@alia

Okay! see you later 🙂

@sam-kowal You actually counted the number of turtles in Daeus’ signature? Impressive! 😀

And @mnvalentine , I’m sorry I’m getting back so late: I was on hiatus. 😐

@mnvalentine I cannot read it as of right now because I have to go, but I just wanted to tell you that I’ll beta-read the first chapter for you and get back to you on this. 🙂 If I’m writing tomorrow, which I hope to be, I’ll read it. 😀 But I liked the newspaper magazine article you included!

@alia

I got distracted reading Les Mis while looking for a quote 😛 Cool! do you like it?

@jenwriter17 (And everyone else on here obviously) COME OVER TO CALIFORNIA OVER SUMMER!!!!!! PLEASE! I need to meet Kapeefers!

I mean, I might be in D.C. next summer, but it’s not for certain yet so don’t plan on it.

@alia Sorry, I can’t be on tonight. Will you be on tomorrow?

@jane-maree @sam-kowal @ariel-ashira Thank you all so much! I’m beginning to figure this out now 🙂

@alia

Sorry, didn’t mean to ignore you earlier 🙂 I’m making some revision notes at the moment. What are you up to?

@catwing oh, good to know 😉

Rin would probably rather be deaf. Not sure why though.

would your character rather be duct taped to a plane mid flight or jump into Niagara Falls? Yeah this total random craziness 😜

@jenwriter17 I think Daeus and Kate got it. Basically, make things more complex. A longer story, more in depth themes, more characters, conflicts, obstacles to overcome, and more live scenes. That being said, you can’t just tack that stuff on to a story that is short at its core. Otherwise the story will drag. Layer things on, and see how in depth…[Read more]

@itsastarrynight Thank you!  @daeus Do you have a little time to give me some advise on this?

@jenwriter17  I guess I just describe every scene in detailed, sensory language, and I have been working on adding more subplots.  I do struggle with creating complicated plots!