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Cloaked Mystery replied to the topic NEW and IMPROVED WIP!!!!! in the forum Novel Critique Requests 4 months, 3 weeks ago
You’re right, it does come across as a bit extreme. But Kratos was/is a representation of every Andromedan race, and it’s showing how EVERYONE treats Paynes. Paynes aren’t even seen as “people” anymore (think WWII during the holocaust, except there aren’t any sympathizers). I can make him less…idk, happy that this is happening,…
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Cloaked Mystery replied to the topic NEW and IMPROVED WIP!!!!! in the forum Novel Critique Requests 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Because of their spiritual decay as they slowly drifted away from the Great One and became more and more open to the idea of abandoning their faith, they would start to take on characteristics of Pythonos without actually becoming one entirely.
Okay, that explanation works. However, this being the first chapter and all, r…[Read more]
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Cloaked Mystery replied to the topic NEW and IMPROVED WIP!!!!! in the forum Novel Critique Requests 4 months, 3 weeks ago
(EDIT: this took longer than I thought, so I only got through he prologue. I’ll do chapter 1 tomorrow and chapter 2 on Wednesday.)
Alright, here’s some feedback. I’m just reading through and commenting as I go. As a warning for anyone else reading this, there may be spoilers in what I say here, since I’m familiar with much o…[Read more]
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Cloaked Mystery replied to the topic NEW and IMPROVED WIP!!!!! in the forum Novel Critique Requests 4 months, 4 weeks ago
lol, no problem! I should have plenty of time Monday morning.
However…I have a bad habit of info dumping backstory in the first chapter
I used to have that problem as well (seems to be a common plague, especially for fantasy writers), but now I kind of have the opposite problem: my style has shifted to be a very strict 3…[Read more]
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Cloaked Mystery posted an update 4 months, 4 weeks ago
So, I’m an adult now. That’s…kinda weird.
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Cloaked Mystery replied to the topic NEW and IMPROVED WIP!!!!! in the forum Novel Critique Requests 4 months, 4 weeks ago
OH NO WHAT ELSE IS WRONG WITH IT 😬
now I’m scared xD
jk jk I’m sure whatever you have to say will be very helpful, as always! 🤣🤣
I have mostly positive things to say actually lol! The way I phrased that did sound a bit scary, sorry! 😅
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Cloaked Mystery replied to the topic NEW and IMPROVED WIP!!!!! in the forum Novel Critique Requests 4 months, 4 weeks ago
Found it!
I’ll give you some feedback in a few days. We have a big party going on at our house tomorrow (and I’m working this afternoon) so I’m pretty busy, and I want to give this a good amount of time—there’s a lot of changes from the original version that I would like to comment on.
But for now, I’ll just say, this is really good!
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Cloaked Mystery replied to the topic Hi! in the forum Start HERE 4 months, 4 weeks ago
@elette-giselle
(Few days late, but anyway…)
Hello! Welcome to KP!
I’m Jonas, a recently graduated homeschooled Christian writer. I write fantasy, specifically what I would call “hard fantasy.” I have only completed one story (not including short stories), which is an 8 chapter novella, but I have plans for many others, all if which take pl…[Read more]
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Cloaked Mystery replied to the topic My Work In Progress in the forum Novel Critique Requests 5 months ago
You’re welcome! I’m glad to know that my advice has been helpful.
I can’t believe how I’ve matured since then, in a little over six months. God has really been working in my life, both in my heart and in my writing!
That’s so great! I know you were having some hard times recently, and it’s good to hear that you’re doin…[Read more]
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Cloaked Mystery replied to the topic Ultimate KP Novel in the forum General Writing Discussions 5 months ago
Or, honestly, we could consider LOTR as an option as well, even though it didn’t win. I would guess that it still garnered a significant portion of votes, and furthermore I would guess that it was a lot of people’s 2nd choice. It might be a good middle ground between Mistborn and Wingfeather. The thing about picking between MB and…[Read more]
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Cloaked Mystery replied to the topic Ultimate KP Novel in the forum General Writing Discussions 5 months ago
Awesome! This looks like it will be a lot of fun.
For the ties, we could just rerun them through eliminating the other options. That way the people whose choices lost will decide between the tied options.
Wingfeather Saga and Mistborn trilogy tied on this question. I’m not sure if we’ll be able to fit both vibes in, but you’ll have to…
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Cloaked Mystery replied to the topic My short story in the forum Short Story Critiques 5 months, 1 week ago
Okay. I’ve never heard of those before.
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Cloaked Mystery replied to the topic My short story in the forum Short Story Critiques 5 months, 1 week ago
That makes sense. I do think it would be better to either have more sci-fi elements or not mention them at all. As it is, it’s just enough to be confusing. I would imagine that if you did write this into a novella, it would fix the problem, since you would have more time for it to become clear.
Is a zip a real thing or is it an instance o…[Read more]
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Cloaked Mystery replied to the topic My short story in the forum Short Story Critiques 5 months, 1 week ago
Very nice, and I think it would work very well as a novella! The only thing I’m confused about is that it apparently takes place in a sci-fi world (since you mentioned other planets), but the setting seemed to be normal.
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Cloaked Mystery replied to the topic Let's Laugh! Writing Memes in the forum Art 5 months, 2 weeks ago
🤣🤣
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Cloaked Mystery replied to the topic Ultimate KP Novel in the forum General Writing Discussions 5 months, 2 weeks ago
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Cloaked Mystery replied to the topic Ultimate KP Novel in the forum General Writing Discussions 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Resubmitted. I’m not sure if you’ll get two submissions from me, but if you do, just ignore the one where I didn’t select 3rd vs. first person.
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Cloaked Mystery replied to the topic Ultimate KP Novel in the forum General Writing Discussions 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Ah, sorry, didn’t see that we were supposed to pick one of each. Now I’ve got to resubmit.
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Cloaked Mystery replied to the topic Ultimate KP Novel in the forum General Writing Discussions 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Completed. Can’t wait to see how it comes out!
Quick question/suggestion: I’m assuming dual POV and single POV is about whether we have both characters be viewpoint characters or not. Maybe that should be a separate question from 1st/3rd person POV, because we could technically have a 1st person dual POV or a 3rd person dual POV, or…[Read more]
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Cloaked Mystery posted a new activity comment 5 months, 2 weeks ago
I’m pretty sure it’s just five ‘buffalo’s.
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Yeah…
Wow that IS weird….XD
But you get to do cool adult stuff now!!!! 😂😁🤣
Like…paying taxes? (actually I haven’t had to do that yet, but it’s only a matter of time *shudders*)
I guess I can now actually *own* things, so that’s nice.
Oh yeah I forgot about those 😬😬😬
It’s crazy how I’ll graduate too in three years, it’s coming really fast!!!!
Yep, Bridget will also graduate in three years. But to me, three years from now seems like a long time, because I’ll be almost done with college by then!
Wow!!!! That’s soooo weird to think about…I guess that’s how I’ll feel because I have two siblings and we’re three and six years apart…
What are you doing for college?
I still don’t know what I’m doing with my life 😭😭
I think that’s pretty normal. I’m still not absolutely certain.
I will be double majoring in computer science and video game design. Pretty odd degree, I know. My plan is basically that being a programmer will help me get a job pretty easily early on and be a good skill to fall back on. Designing video games is something I’ve always wanted to do,…[Read more]
That’s funny actually, I am three years older than Bridget, and six years older than our younger brother as well!