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Commission rough is done. Still needs some cover work and lots of editing, but feels like the weight of the world has lifted. Working on editing some chapters and going to blitz them out before the end of the year.

Because it’s how I speak, LOTS of contractions.

Turn it into a shonen battle cooking story. MC decides to win her over with food and foodgasms. Becomes a cook in an illegal underground cooking ring, where the edgy food is made.

Reviews typically are a result of quality - good or bad - and wordcount. So give it some time and keep at it.

I see that you are a person of culture as well.

Chapter 15 is typically where people decide they like my story or drop it. It was a difficult chapter to write. https://www.scribblehub.com/read/640693-becoming-monsters/chapter/643891/

All editors and major publishers use style guides. For instance, I use the The Chicago Manual of Style because I learned how to write in a journalism atmosphere. Different people use different rules of style, and they are - for the most part - all fine. The important part of style is...

Chapter 14 is where an otter and a snake are introduced, deep within the Harvardtown dungeon. https://www.scribblehub.com/read/640693-becoming-monsters/chapter/643890/

I don't know half as much half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of what I know half as well as I deserve.

The root to good character - female, male, alien, toaster - is empathy. Specifically, a sharing of rhetoric. I mean rhetoric in the classical sense: logos, pathos, ethos. At any point in a story, a person has to connect with a character empathically through one of these three points. Meaning the...

Spice and Wolf is the best of this list, or at least my favorite.

Chapter 13 has a lot happening. Honoka collects Banda, everyone gets married, then a visit to the local dungeon underneath what used to be Harvard. https://www.scribblehub.com/read/640693-becoming-monsters/chapter/643889/

World building and magic system sounds fun, but the so far I’m getting a bleak vibe for the story. Personally, I like story arcs that lead to a happy resolution.

Trigun, Fullmetal Alchemist 2, Slayers 1, MKR 1 and 2, Bleach 2…I could do this all day.

A miracle is linked to faith. So in story terms, the earning of it comes from a belief in God or, tangentially, some other character’s belief in God. To make it feel earned as you say, means to write about and build up a character’s faith.

I always feel a good romance makes a story better. A person can be both traumatized and in love.

They need a good plot and have to make sense in the world building. Does no one any good if treated as a Deus Ex.

And the regularly scheduled chapter 12 is up. Enter the business negotiations of Honoka adding a goblin and holstaur to her harem. https://www.scribblehub.com/read/640693-becoming-monsters/chapter/643886/

Have fun with it!

Merry Christmas! Surprise chapter, the interlude 11.5 is up! Goes into the depths of the villainous Solomon Church and why he is looking for Diane. Stay tuned for tomorrow morning and Chapter 12! https://www.scribblehub.com/read/640693-becoming-monsters/chapter/643883/