KydonAndWillow

@jonas

A fair concern. Despite his reputation, Sanderson has left his readers on edge for extended periods of time with little word, take The Rithmatist for example. That being said, that was more of a side project that he’s simply been putting off, whereas Stormlight is one of his biggest series, and he’s far more invested. Knowing him, I would…[Read more]

@savannah_grace2009

It’s so hard to just pick one main character out of the set of five, though! I love all them equally!!! XD

That’s fair. I think you can make it work as well, it is harder for smaller stories though, but not impossible.

This is funny, to me it feels like they’re my best friends and if I choose one over the other they’ll get m…

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@jonas

Okay, that’s kind of what I was thinking. I don’t know if it needs to be clearer or not. I don’t know how many other people would notice, and I already had a guess as to why. So maybe rewording it slightly would clear things up.

Ok, fair enough, I’ll tweak it then.

If you’re attached to it, I don’t think it needs to change at any point. It…

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@jonas

You might not care, but I try to maintain a fairly equal ratio of male MCs to female MCs in a book. This shouldn’t be the deciding factor, but consider that adding Liv as a MC would give you a 2 to 4 ratio (double the amount of female characters to male), whereas you currently have as even a ratio as possible with 2 to 3.

Obviously, you m…

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@freedomwriter76

Oof, sounds pretty sad to me…poor siblings 🥺 (sounds pretty angsty XD)

From what I’ve read, your book seems really interesting!! 💕🤩

Well that scene was from an old story, which gave me the idea to write my current WIP based off of that. So it didn’t make it through editing, neither did most of that very sloppy 41K very rough “dr…[Read more]

@jonas

Ok, I actually didn’t know that it would be different characters, but it makes sense. Sanderson likes exploring the different eras.

@rae

Cool! That’s a really cool concept. Crystal swords as an idea has always felt a little fantasy cliché to me, but the mechanic you built into it is actually really intriguing! It’s kind of like a memory metal (is that what it’s based off of), but it disappears instead of getting distorted, so that’s a really powerful material. Just make sure…[Read more]

@thearcaneaxiom

Sure. Let’s see…here, I found this paragraph especially confusing:

You’re telling me. I had more questions, but held my tongue because Thing’s current track record hasn’t been the most helpful for answering them, other than explaining my inability to eat.

And there were a couple other spots where it switches to present tense lik…[Read more]

@savannah_grace2009

Yeah, I agree with the majority of what Jonas already said. Although I think smaller stories can have many prospective, but it has to be done right. I could think of a few examples, though most are more contemporary, but I’m sure there’s many fantastical. I think a cast of 5 or 6 is a fair enough amount that won’t be…[Read more]

Yeah, it’s odd. She wanted me to help her prep for NaNoWriMo:(

@savannah_grace2009

I like this chapter! My favorite part was how happy the robot got when he named her “Thing”.  that was great!

Lol! Thanks! I’m glad it seems to be producing an enjoyable dynamic between the two😂

Great chapter! The bounce between present and past tense was very conf…

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@hybridlore

Oh, yes I did. After discussing some things with my brother, I decided I’m going to write about one of my warrior teams. Thanks for offering, though! 😄

@savannah_grace2009

Just popping in, I know I haven’t been very active on here…

Is 6 MC’s too many, or should I stick with my original 5?

It really depends. If Liv is going to be important enough to be an MC and if you can make each of their viewpoints interesting and make every character unique, I’d say go for it. I know GodlyFantasy has, li…[Read more]

@jonas

I would say it completely depends on relevance to the main plot. Is she going to have future interactions with the main cast? Will her actions have an impact on the overall story? If not, then I would say it would be best not to, but there is another option.

Yeah, she’s going to play a part in the story.

That makes sense, I’ll experiment I…[Read more]

@freedomwriter76

Only read this if you want too…but look how outdated the style is!!! I can’t believe I used to write like this, and that was just last year! CRINGE. This is one of the only scenes that I teared up during…and i still don’t really get why. It’s not that good tbh…

Jorryn

After what seems like at least a million more steps…

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@freedomwriter76

made me cry so many times writing it tho! XD

I haven’t actually cried while writing any stories (though I have a feeling that my current WIP will do it sometime soon as it deals with abuse, romance, and evil in general and some parts are sad!).  I once wrote a sad chapter last spring for a school assignment about this boy who was…[Read more]

@jonas @thearcaneaxiom

Hey, it’s me again, lol. I have a question. Is it fine to give a side character a POV if it’s for one or two chapters?

Here’s some context. If you guys remember Liv from chapter 5 (where Lilitu steals bread), I was thinking she could play a part in Lilitu’s story. She’s kind of secretly supporting the Paynes and I wanted…[Read more]

@acancello

I should have the next scene done by tomorrow for the RP 🙂

Oooh I’m excited! I’ll wait to write mine until you post it, because I don’t want to accidentally have the same idea, lol. (And I RP way too much on here, lol)

@janellebelovedpig

AHHH! I think Sarafini left us! NOOOO! All her posts say anonymous and I can’t see her profile 🙁

@mineralizedwritings

Yeah, it’s really small! and 500 is just the population of the town! There’s 12 kids in my class and 120 kids K-12!!!!! It’s kind of crazy compared to some where the graduating class is like 600. There were 6 seniors last year!

You can do something ou don’t like for a little while, and she might appreciate it if you played p…

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