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Please check this out and tell me if it is good enough or worth reading? :blob_hide: would appreciate some tips or ideas as well which would help interest readers. I am a beginner in writing and wants to improve. I haven't posted any chapters this month but, will surely in the next one:blob_popcorn:
Here is the link of my other story
 
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This is good really good. Also I thought you were some random asking us to read a story and ask if it’s good because they were lazy.
 

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This is good really good. Also I thought you were some random asking us to read a story and ask if it’s good because they were lazy.
Thanks. And sorry looks like I didn't keep an attractive title then ?
 
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Please check this out and tell me if it is good enough or worth reading? :blob_hide: would appreciate some tips or ideas as well which would help interest readers. I am a beginner in writing and wants to improve. I haven't posted any chapters this month but, will surely in the next one:blob_popcorn:
Here is the link of my other story
Oh well... this...
 

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If what you say is true and that you're a beginner, congratulations cause your 90% better than all the other beginners I've read. However, there are still quite a few amateurish mistakes here and there that really bogs down your writing.

First of all, you use way too much passive voice. If you don't know what passive voice is, it's basically when a sentence uses words like "was" "were" "been" and the bunch then follows it up with a past tense phrase.

Example from your story: He was holding another kingdom's king who was severely injured and turned dumb by seeing him he rose in anger.

Now this sentence has a few other problems besides the passive voice, but we'll get to that later. For first off, I want you to turn down the passive voice by a lot. What passive voice does is give almost no weight to what is being read. Here's an example of the same sentence but without passive voice.

Without Passive Voice: The king held the enemy's ruler by the collar of his royal garb. The ruler, upon looking at the battlefield soaked in his battalion's blood, struggled out of the king's grip and fought back.

See how the sentence with passive voice gives a lot more weight to the action going on and heightens the tension? This is what I would like to see more of in your story cause as it is, there is very little weight to anything going on. If you have trouble spotting passive voice, I recommend using prowritingaid. It's a free software that can spot passive voice and it'll tell you what is and isn't passive voice. I highly advise you to cut down your passive voice until your only using it five times a chapter, if not less.

There's also another problem with the first sentence, it being that it's hard to tell what is happening. This is a case of where you needed to split the sentence into two separate sentences which I already provided an example of. It doesn't happen much, but there were points where I was confused of what was going on because of it.

Overall, if you can fix the passive voice predicament, then you got yourself some decent writing. The story itself is rather interesting and if gone through again to fix the errors, I can see it shining in the future. Or you can make a new work, cause with you not posting within a month, that'll make it harder for you to gain in audience. Whatever decision you make is up to you, and I hope to read your work in the future.
 

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If what you say is true and that you're a beginner, congratulations cause your 90% better than all the other beginners I've read. However, there are still quite a few amateurish mistakes here and there that really bogs down your writing.

First of all, you use way too much passive voice. If you don't know what passive voice is, it's basically when a sentence uses words like "was" "were" "been" and the bunch then follows it up with a past tense phrase.

Example from your story: He was holding another kingdom's king who was severely injured and turned dumb by seeing him he rose in anger.

Now this sentence has a few other problems besides the passive voice, but we'll get to that later. For first off, I want you to turn down the passive voice by a lot. What passive voice does is give almost no weight to what is being read. Here's an example of the same sentence but without passive voice.

Without Passive Voice: The king held the enemy's ruler by the collar of his royal garb. The ruler, upon looking at the battlefield soaked in his battalion's blood, struggled out of the king's grip and fought back.

See how the sentence with passive voice gives a lot more weight to the action going on and heightens the tension? This is what I would like to see more of in your story cause as it is, there is very little weight to anything going on. If you have trouble spotting passive voice, I recommend using prowritingaid. It's a free software that can spot passive voice and it'll tell you what is and isn't passive voice. I highly advise you to cut down your passive voice until your only using it five times a chapter, if not less.

There's also another problem with the first sentence, it being that it's hard to tell what is happening. This is a case of where you needed to split the sentence into two separate sentences which I already provided an example of. It doesn't happen much, but there were points where I was confused of what was going on because of it.

Overall, if you can fix the passive voice predicament, then you got yourself some decent writing. The story itself is rather interesting and if gone through again to fix the errors, I can see it shining in the future. Or you can make a new work, cause with you not posting within a month, that'll make it harder for you to gain in audience. Whatever decision you make is up to you, and I hope to read your work in the future.
thanks, a lot for the tips will make sure to take care of these mistakes. will be careful using passive voice next time. never knew it could effect on the story that bad :blob_hmm:
Did i write that horrible way that the events aren't even understandable..... i am really sorry for that then. The two kings are fighting side by side with someone else. The one who is held is injuired and can't stand so the other King holds him so he stand as a king. And the king who is holding the injuired one turned shocked looking at the other one growing furious.
 

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thanks, a lot for the tips will make sure to take care of these mistakes. will be careful using passive voice next time. never knew it could effect on the story that bad :blob_hmm:
Did i write that horrible way that the events aren't even understandable..... i am really sorry for that then. The two kings are fighting side by side with someone else. The one who is held is injuired and can't stand so the other King holds him so he stand as a king. And the king who is holding the injuired one turned shocked looking at the other one growing furious.
No problem, its just something all beginner writers do unconsciously. It's better to do it now and have someone criticize you for it, rather than keeping on writing making the same mistakes. I hope to read any future stories you write. Just remember, if you want to get better at something, keep on doing it. Sooner or later, you're going to find a voice that suits you specifically.
 

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No problem, its just something all beginner writers do unconsciously. It's better to do it now and have someone criticize you for it, rather than keeping on writing making the same mistakes. I hope to read any future stories you write. Just remember, if you want to get better at something, keep on doing it. Sooner or later, you're going to find a voice that suits you specifically.
Aww thank you for giving such encouraging words :blob_aww: I hope that such mistakes didn't annoy you while reading. I am very grateful for this tips and will cherish your advice to improve. I will try my best and avoid these mistakes as much as I can so this story can be enjoyable and interesting to read :blob_highfive:
 
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