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Hello, SH!

It's been awhile since I've been on because I was working on different novel projects and crusading through life.

Hope everyone is doing well?

So, I only have 4 chapters up and it's in a genre I like a lot which is Supernatural/Mystery. But I'm also combining these with the LitRPG tag. Just wanted to know what you think so far? You can stop early if ya want


 
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Hello, SH!

It's been awhile since I've been on because I was working on different novel projects and crusading through life.

Hope everyone is doing well?

So, I only have 4 chapters up and it's in a genre I like a lot which is Supernatural/Mystery. But I'm also combining these with the LitRPG tag. Just wanted to know what you think so far? You can stop early if ya want


Just read 4 of your chapters. A speed read, actually.

So here's the thing I want to ask, what is your work about?

First, I would start with the title: Wow, Succubus & Maverick.

Second, genre: Supernatural/Mystery. Nothing wrong with that.

Third, synopsis:
Collin St. Rex is a 17 year-old Brazilian-Romani senior in highschool. During a family dilemma he returns to his hometown in Connecticut with his dad. Collin is the youngest out of his two older siblings, he's shy, very good at sports, and is known to have a heart of gold. At school he bumps into the infamous E-girl, Helena Jaeger and things get unreal.

...Excuse me?

What happened to the Succubus & Maverick? What would I get to see in the novel?

Fourth, the contents:
Chapter 1: Introduction part of Colin's life + his siblings in coma
Chapter 2: Talking with friends.
Chapter 3: Comic, dinner, mom is an athlete.
Chapter 4: Football, movies, games.

Which is surprisingly... bland. Not just bland, it's very bland. It felt like you are going nowhere.

I want to ask, is this actually a novel about 'The Daily Life of Collin'?

Where are the Succubus, Maverick, and the LitRPG? Where are the supernatural events?

Do not write nor reply anything saying that it will be getting interesting 'SOON'.

That 'SOON' is going to cost ya.


Below this line is just a suggestion, whether to heed the advice or not is entirely up to you. But take note, your work is as good as dead. It's already dead right from the start.

So here's the thing you are going to do.

Scrap the synopsis and contents, rewrite everything.

How do you want to rewrite, then?

It's very simple. What you are going to do is to show me that Succubus and Maverick.

What is your world like? What can a Succubus do? What can a Maverick do? What's so supernatural about them? What's so LitRPG in this?

The funny thing about supernatural/mystery novel is:
We don't want to see anything non-supernatural. Especially the first three chapters.

If your chapters are too short, you can simply write longer. Put things in that would deem interesting to the readers.

Well, before you see the following example, please take note that this is just my writing style. There are authors out there who couldn't accept their work, characters, and world building tainted by other hands. I will be frank, just admit that you could still improve in lots of ways.

For example:
"HAH-- HAH--"

I'm almost there. After the corridors, the door to the right, ROOM 101.

"Patient's vital are fading! Give me a booster quick!" The doctor urged.

Collin's parents, are watching from the other side of the window, worried. Because those patients inside the ICU with their vitals fading, were their children, Collin's older siblings.

"Mom! Dad! What's the situation!?"

"I'm sorry, Collin. It's my fault."

"W-W-What's wrong, dad!? Why is this your fault!?"

"Collin, their powers-- they were stolen by a succubus."



...Something like that.

Now this is what I call mystery and supernatural.

Then you could go back to Collin's daily life. But I wouldn't do that if I were you.
 

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Thank you for the awesome advice!

I was told from YouTube videos that the inciting incident should happen early on like Ch5?

But I guess I should write more in the synopsis to get the reader hooked. I'm still pretty new to LitRPG and if I wasn't doing that it would definitely be more Supernatural/Mystery right off the bat.

Sorry if it's pretty bland right now, but thx for checking my story out anyway.
 

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Thank you for the awesome advice!

I was told from YouTube videos that the inciting incident should happen early on like Ch5?

But I guess I should write more in the synopsis to get the reader hooked. I'm still pretty new to LitRPG and if I wasn't doing that it would definitely be more Supernatural/Mystery right off the bat.

Sorry if it's pretty bland right now, but thx for checking my story out anyway.
Well if you want to ask for a feedback next time, make sure you put in the inciting stuff first before you ask.

Like I wrote, it's an example. There's no need to put it right off the bat. But at least, give hints or include something that would make it look supernatural so that this won't look like a 'Daily Life of Collin'.
 

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Sorry, do you think I should write a chapter with Collin using his newfound powers in battle and make that first chapter?

Than I can show what led up to him getting these powers. Would that be better? Because I do agree with you, Luc
 

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Thank you for the awesome advice!

I was told from YouTube videos that the inciting incident should happen early on like Ch5?
For a traditional novel, that makes sense - the reader has already invested in the book (by buying it or checking it out of a library) and has a reason to wait that long.
For a webnovel/light novel, you have to sell the reader right off the bad, so need to start with something or risk losing their attention, as there are 10001 similar books out there that ARE already doing something by CH2, CH3; you need to at least tease the hook if not toss it out and hope to catch a reader or two right off the bat.
But I guess I should write more in the synopsis to get the reader hooked. I'm still pretty new to LitRPG and if I wasn't doing that it would definitely be more Supernatural/Mystery right off the bat.
For the synopsis - how is the "home town" of a Brazilian-Romani Connecticut? That would be a Brazilian-American (quite common really) of Romani descent. Or he's an expatriate living in Brazil (or the son of an expatriate or something like that).
Maybe - "A family crisis drives Colin St.-Rex, a high-school senior of Romani descent, back from his home in Brazil to his birthplace in Connecticut. There he must navigate family relations while something darker looms on the horizon - a horror even greater than that of being a high school senior in a strange country.
At school he encounters an infamous 'E-Girl,' and things begin to spiral - is she friend, foe, or just a catalyst for something else?"
 

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For a traditional novel, that makes sense - the reader has already invested in the book (by buying it or checking it out of a library) and has a reason to wait that long.
For a webnovel/light novel, you have to sell the reader right off the bad, so need to start with something or risk losing their attention, as there are 10001 similar books out there that ARE already doing something by CH2, CH3; you need to at least tease the hook if not toss it out and hope to catch a reader or two right off the bat.

For the synopsis - how is the "home town" of a Brazilian-Romani Connecticut? That would be a Brazilian-American (quite common really) of Romani descent. Or he's an expatriate living in Brazil (or the son of an expatriate or something like that).
Maybe - "A family crisis drives Colin St.-Rex, a high-school senior of Romani descent, back from his home in Brazil to his birthplace in Connecticut. There he must navigate family relations while something darker looms on the horizon - a horror even greater than that of being a high school senior in a strange country.
At school he encounters an infamous 'E-Girl,' and things begin to spiral - is she friend, foe, or just a catalyst for something else?"


Dude, that is pretty awesome!

I really appreciate all this
 

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Sorry, do you think I should write a chapter with Collin using his newfound powers in battle and make that first chapter?

Than I can show what led up to him getting these powers. Would that be better? Because I do agree with you, Luc
Better than a fight just have his power manifest somehow - possibly he's unaware of it, something just HAPPENS (as an example, one character in one of my stories has a minor ability to manipulate probability - he can not use it consciously, but he makes a comment like: "Wouldn't it be funny if the guys chasing us hit the pothole you just missed and bottom out their car?" - and the other car does that. Or during a fight he complains that the only weapon he really knows how to use is a slingshot, and another character says, "what, like that wrist rocket in the gutter over there?" - but there had been nothing in that gutter before he spoke).
 

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Better than a fight just have his power manifest somehow - possibly he's unaware of it, something just HAPPENS (as an example, one character in one of my stories has a minor ability to manipulate probability - he can not use it consciously, but he makes a comment like: "Wouldn't it be funny if the guys chasing us hit the pothole you just missed and bottom out their car?" - and the other car does that. Or during a fight he complains that the only weapon he really knows how to use is a slingshot, and another character says, "what, like that wrist rocket in the gutter over there?" - but there had been nothing in that gutter before he spoke).


Oh, it's more like he's given his powers. Besides supernatural/mystery it's also a LitRPG. I thought putting a fight scene would be better because I get to show the supernatural side and than the mystery will be later when I show the reader how Collin got these powers
 

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Oh, it's more like he's given his powers. Besides supernatural/mystery it's also a LitRPG. I thought putting a fight scene would be better because I get to show the supernatural side and than the mystery will be later when I show the reader how Collin got these powers
There's no point putting a fight scene if one does not know how to fight.
 

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Oh, it's more like he's given his powers. Besides supernatural/mystery it's also a LitRPG. I thought putting a fight scene would be better because I get to show the supernatural side and than the mystery will be later when I show the reader how Collin got these powers
LitRPG often includes actual game stats somehow (most of the instances I've read include a System as well, but I've heard those are actually less common).
 

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Thank you for the awesome advice!

I was told from YouTube videos that the inciting incident should happen early on like Ch5?

But I guess I should write more in the synopsis to get the reader hooked. I'm still pretty new to LitRPG and if I wasn't doing that it would definitely be more Supernatural/Mystery right off the bat.

Sorry if it's pretty bland right now, but thx for checking my story out anyway.
... Which video was this? I want to go look at it and laugh.
As someone pointed out before - it might make sense for a traditional book.

But for a webnobel you want to hook your reader at the beginning. And I don't even mean the first chapter. I mean at the synopsis and/or cover.
Granted, most people don't manage that (me included), because it is not that easy. But there are too many stories with even more comming out every day. You need that 'hook'.

Iirc, most readers will give a story 3 chapters before deciding if they keep reading or dropping.

5 chapters is far, far too slow.
 

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Well if you want to ask for a feedback next time, make sure you put in the inciting stuff first before you ask.

Like I wrote, it's an example. There's no need to put it right off the bat. But at least, give hints or include something that would make it look supernatural so that this won't look like a 'Daily Life of Collin'.
Can you also give feedback for my novel . I am also a new author
 

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Link, dude. Or you can't put one yet?
Here's the link

 

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Here's the link

Hmm, a fan-fiction.

So before I write a review, I'm going to explain about the problems about fan-fiction first. You need to accept the harsh reality about it.

You see, fan-fictions, only works very well on fiction that have short stories, and it also works very well if your story is short, too.

Unfortunately, Naruto falls into the long story category.

If that's the case, what's so bad about long stories?

Because the original author gave what fans want and does not want to read.

In simpler words, everything about the characters, story building, development, progress, and such, was completely covered. It means the longer the story, the lesser the story you were able to develop.

And fans would constantly compare your story to the original one, and have this issue to dislike your fan-fic right from the start.

Usually, fan-fiction would be fun to read if it focuses on-- Side characters.

Side characters that they were interested to see their development.

Such as:

1. Shipping Sai & Ino
2. Shipping Shikamaru & Temari
3. Heck, you could even write about a story about the daily life of a random gate guarding NPC of the Hidden leaf village, if it's interesting.

Once again, unfortunately, your character isn't even a character from Naruto, which leads to another problem-- no one would be interested in it, because it's not even about Naruto.

What's more, there's the existence of Boruto. Many already dropped this shit, including me.



So, let's begin the review.

Firstly, the title: Naruto – The God of Shinobi

There's no problem.

Synopsis:
Okay, you gave information to your readers what to expect from a fan-fiction. But, there's no connection to your title.

Synopsis + Title:
Here's the problem about your title when I first read it.

I thought this was about Naruto ascending to Godhood. Heck, it's not even about him.

Maybe you could change to-- I reincarnated into Naruto's World!

You don't necessary have to change, but, at least it's not confusing.

Now, the contents:
Chapter 1: The MC died because of a wet dream.

Congratulations, I died right from the start.

1. Smart and consistent MC

I was expecting something else, but, wet dream? Really? Out of all of that you have to choose wet dream? Even getting hit by truck-kun wouldn't make me that annoyed right from the start. You even need to mention it again in Chapter 3, wow.

No idea what you've been through, but I would suggest you to scrap the method of death and start over with a new one.

But no worries, I gave a speed read for the remaining chapters.



After giving it a read, I was like, hmm, yes, your MC is just like how your synopsis describes.

But, it's not interesting at all. The problem lies in that you've chosen Naruto.

If there's a choice, readers would choose to read over Naruto's story instead of yours.

No one will be interested to see how a cheat who knew the entire story about Naruto transmigrated into Naruto's world.

Because there's no emotion in your story.

At least, Naruto was shunned, protected by his sensei, and he strived to become stronger by meeting everyone else.

Plus, you had info-dumps, which is unnecessary because for those who had read Naruto already knew everything. Literally EVERYTHING.

You even had an exam. At least the others had their own method to cheat. But you don't. You are answering the question honestly, which is a pain.

Your story is like a straight line. It's too peaceful. Too simple. Only an MC training diligently. It even occurs in a timeline where everyone was familiar, which would only cause more setbacks that presents your lack of ideas.

Lastly, your author's note.

Please, at least put it in a legit author's note.



Somehow, I had a feeling that you were starting to lose some motivation upon reading it.

No one to replying to your work really sucks huh, yes, it does. It happens to those who wanted one.

I had to apologize in advance first. But unfortunately, your fan-fic would die soon, very soon. Especially when one uses an old plot.

I could understand your passion and love about Naruto, but unfortunately, it's best to let Naruto remain as Naruto, as a legend.

Let's hope you wouldn't be discouraged.



Below this line is just a suggestion, whether to heed the advice or not is entirely up to you. But take note, your work is as good as dead. It's already dead right from the start.

...Drop this work. (Harsh, isn't it?)

If not, not the hidden leaf village. There are other villages, how about your try them.

If not, not the transmigration. Any character would do fine in Naruto as long as it's a shinobi.

If not, not that timeline. Can't you go way before hidden leaf village was founded? If not, life on the moon?

If not, don't write fan-fiction for Naruto.
 

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Link, dude. Or you can't put one yet?

Hmm, a fan-fiction.

So before I write a review, I'm going to explain about the problems about fan-fiction first. You need to accept the harsh reality about it.

You see, fan-fictions, only works very well on fiction that have short stories, and it also works very well if your story is short, too.

Unfortunately, Naruto falls into the long story category.

If that's the case, what's so bad about long stories?

Because the original author gave what fans want and does not want to read.

In simpler words, everything about the characters, story building, development, progress, and such, was completely covered. It means the longer the story, the lesser the story you were able to develop.

And fans would constantly compare your story to the original one, and have this issue to dislike your fan-fic right from the start.

Usually, fan-fiction would be fun to read if it focuses on-- Side characters.

Side characters that they were interested to see their development.

Such as:

1. Shipping Sai & Ino
2. Shipping Shikamaru & Temari
3. Heck, you could even write about a story about the daily life of a random gate guarding NPC of the Hidden leaf village, if it's interesting.

Once again, unfortunately, your character isn't even a character from Naruto, which leads to another problem-- no one would be interested in it, because it's not even about Naruto.

What's more, there's the existence of Boruto. Many already dropped this shit, including me.



So, let's begin the review.

Firstly, the title: Naruto – The God of Shinobi

There's no problem.

Synopsis:
Okay, you gave information to your readers what to expect from a fan-fiction. But, there's no connection to your title.

Synopsis + Title:
Here's the problem about your title when I first read it.

I thought this was about Naruto ascending to Godhood. Heck, it's not even about him.

Maybe you could change to-- I reincarnated into Naruto's World!

You don't necessary have to change, but, at least it's not confusing.

Now, the contents:
Chapter 1: The MC died because of a wet dream.

Congratulations, I died right from the start.

1. Smart and consistent MC

I was expecting something else, but, wet dream? Really? Out of all of that you have to choose wet dream? Even getting hit by truck-kun wouldn't make me that annoyed right from the start. You even need to mention it again in Chapter 3, wow.

No idea what you've been through, but I would suggest you to scrap the method of death and start over with a new one.

But no worries, I gave a speed read for the remaining chapters.



After giving it a read, I was like, hmm, yes, your MC is just like how your synopsis describes.

But, it's not interesting at all. The problem lies in that you've chosen Naruto.

If there's a choice, readers would choose to read over Naruto's story instead of yours.

No one will be interested to see how a cheat who knew the entire story about Naruto transmigrated into Naruto's world.

Because there's no emotion in your story.

At least, Naruto was shunned, protected by his sensei, and he strived to become stronger by meeting everyone else.

Plus, you had info-dumps, which is unnecessary because for those who had read Naruto already knew everything. Literally EVERYTHING.

You even had an exam. At least the others had their own method to cheat. But you don't. You are answering the question honestly, which is a pain.

Your story is like a straight line. It's too peaceful. Too simple. Only an MC training diligently. It even occurs in a timeline where everyone was familiar, which would only cause more setbacks that presents your lack of ideas.

Lastly, your author's note.

Please, at least put it in a legit author's note.



Somehow, I had a feeling that you were starting to lose some motivation upon reading it.

No one to replying to your work really sucks huh, yes, it does. It happens to those who wanted one.

I had to apologize in advance first. But unfortunately, your fan-fic would die soon, very soon. Especially when one uses an old plot.

I could understand your passion and love about Naruto, but unfortunately, it's best to let Naruto remain as Naruto, as a legend.

Let's hope you wouldn't be discouraged.



Below this line is just a suggestion, whether to heed the advice or not is entirely up to you. But take note, your work is as good as dead. It's already dead right from the start.

...Drop this work. (Harsh, isn't it?)

If not, not the hidden leaf village. There are other villages, how about your try them.

If not, not the transmigration. Any character would do fine in Naruto as long as it's a shinobi.

If not, not that timeline. Can't you go way before hidden leaf village was founded? If not, life on the moon?

If not, don't write fan-fiction for Naruto.
Well thanks for review. I will surely try other characters story as you suggested.
As for dropping it . I have already written till he becomes a chunin . I am now getting comments on Webnovel website as I have already uploaded 20+ chapters there. I have only started uploading on different website recently after getting reaction on Webnovel.

Can you give me your review on story development or character emotions or grammar of story ?

Well , thanks for previous review regardless. I hope you tell new review on story ?
 

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Hmm, a fan-fiction.

So before I write a review, I'm going to explain about the problems about fan-fiction first. You need to accept the harsh reality about it.

You see, fan-fictions, only works very well on fiction that have short stories, and it also works very well if your story is short, too.

Unfortunately, Naruto falls into the long story category.

If that's the case, what's so bad about long stories?

Because the original author gave what fans want and does not want to read.

In simpler words, everything about the characters, story building, development, progress, and such, was completely covered. It means the longer the story, the lesser the story you were able to develop.

And fans would constantly compare your story to the original one, and have this issue to dislike your fan-fic right from the start.

Usually, fan-fiction would be fun to read if it focuses on-- Side characters.

Side characters that they were interested to see their development.

Such as:

1. Shipping Sai & Ino
2. Shipping Shikamaru & Temari
3. Heck, you could even write about a story about the daily life of a random gate guarding NPC of the Hidden leaf village, if it's interesting.

Once again, unfortunately, your character isn't even a character from Naruto, which leads to another problem-- no one would be interested in it, because it's not even about Naruto.

What's more, there's the existence of Boruto. Many already dropped this shit, including me.



So, let's begin the review.

Firstly, the title: Naruto – The God of Shinobi

There's no problem.

Synopsis:
Okay, you gave information to your readers what to expect from a fan-fiction. But, there's no connection to your title.

Synopsis + Title:
Here's the problem about your title when I first read it.

I thought this was about Naruto ascending to Godhood. Heck, it's not even about him.

Maybe you could change to-- I reincarnated into Naruto's World!

You don't necessary have to change, but, at least it's not confusing.

Now, the contents:
Chapter 1: The MC died because of a wet dream.

Congratulations, I died right from the start.

1. Smart and consistent MC

I was expecting something else, but, wet dream? Really? Out of all of that you have to choose wet dream? Even getting hit by truck-kun wouldn't make me that annoyed right from the start. You even need to mention it again in Chapter 3, wow.

No idea what you've been through, but I would suggest you to scrap the method of death and start over with a new one.

But no worries, I gave a speed read for the remaining chapters.



After giving it a read, I was like, hmm, yes, your MC is just like how your synopsis describes.

But, it's not interesting at all. The problem lies in that you've chosen Naruto.

If there's a choice, readers would choose to read over Naruto's story instead of yours.

No one will be interested to see how a cheat who knew the entire story about Naruto transmigrated into Naruto's world.

Because there's no emotion in your story.

At least, Naruto was shunned, protected by his sensei, and he strived to become stronger by meeting everyone else.

Plus, you had info-dumps, which is unnecessary because for those who had read Naruto already knew everything. Literally EVERYTHING.

You even had an exam. At least the others had their own method to cheat. But you don't. You are answering the question honestly, which is a pain.

Your story is like a straight line. It's too peaceful. Too simple. Only an MC training diligently. It even occurs in a timeline where everyone was familiar, which would only cause more setbacks that presents your lack of ideas.

Lastly, your author's note.

Please, at least put it in a legit author's note.



Somehow, I had a feeling that you were starting to lose some motivation upon reading it.

No one to replying to your work really sucks huh, yes, it does. It happens to those who wanted one.

I had to apologize in advance first. But unfortunately, your fan-fic would die soon, very soon. Especially when one uses an old plot.

I could understand your passion and love about Naruto, but unfortunately, it's best to let Naruto remain as Naruto, as a legend.

Let's hope you wouldn't be discouraged.



Below this line is just a suggestion, whether to heed the advice or not is entirely up to you. But take note, your work is as good as dead. It's already dead right from the start.

...Drop this work. (Harsh, isn't it?)

If not, not the hidden leaf village. There are other villages, how about your try them.

If not, not the transmigration. Any character would do fine in Naruto as long as it's a shinobi.

If not, not that timeline. Can't you go way before hidden leaf village was founded? If not, life on the moon?

If not, don't write fan-fiction for Naruto.
Here's the link which have more chapters
 
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