Recent content by fayethemouse

Year of the Flood by Atwood had 2 MCs and 2 POVs through about a decade of time. One MC was in third-person, the other was in first-person. YMMV - that part was VERY hard for me to remember who was saying what when -- especially when in the final act the two MCs are on the same quest. I think...

This feels like a middle chapter so I'm going to assume some things were set up before - the teleportation crystal kinda came out of nowhere, for example. And the explanation of the powers is like he's used them before. This is all nitpicky. I'm not a litRPG person but in general it flows fine...

according to a random twitter post i saw it's because web/light novel sites dont/didnt have summary fields so they put the plot summary in the title, and then it became a trope to do so also in that twitter post they said more traditional titles sell better overall but essentially the "lets put...

eh i'm just starting out here but i come from microfiction where 300-700 words isn't unusual. I try to keep mine roughly consistent, but sometimes a chapter needs more.

Read the intro and out to part 3. Hope this helps! The big thing to me is that it's very "and then" writing. There's an interesting video from Trey Parker and Matt Stone where they talk about how writing should never be "This happens. And then, that other thing happens." Instead, between each...

Check AO3 for "Human Domesticization Guide" or "HDG" or "Affini"

As I'm reading through, there's a few one-liners here and there that if it were a final edit might have to be the darling that must be killed. But it's not a final edit, and I chuckled. So, make of that what you will. I do think - and ugh, maybe it's just hitting close to home - the...

Hey! So not cishet but... Lemme type as I read. Hope it's helpful! There's a touch too much editorializing and "telling" to me? Not excessively so -- vs maybe But a little less obviousness might help? This is also stylistic and POV-driven, so y'know. Grains of salt. And honestly? That's the...