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I decided to become a writer when I read an actual published novel, in my favorite genre, that had made it to the New York Times bestseller list and was above a 4.5 on Amazon with hundreds of reviews...and it was absolutely horrible, as if the author had never met an actual human before, and...

It sounds like you're just talking about commissioning a character drawing, which is a lot cheaper than commissioning a professional book cover, so if you feel like it's worth it, go for it. I just pushed the button on commissioning a professional cover for The Eighth Warden, now that I'm done...

I have to give myself artificial deadlines, such as "This book must be published to Amazon by the end of the month" or "I must give my Patreon account two releases this month." When I first started writing, I didn't need that, but lately I've been getting lazy, so...artificial deadlines to the...

I would say the type of harem tropes typical on this site can be problematic, but the genre itself can be salvaged if the author doesn't use those tropes. For me, the deciding factors are: 1. Is the situation realistic given the individual characters' personalities? 2. Do the characters even...

For new writers, I would add the recommendation that you shouldn't do your actual writing on ScribbleHub. You should do your writing and maintain all your files on your own computer (plus offsite backups, if possible), and then copy and paste into the ScribbleHub editor, and fix any formatting...

Probably the best way to think about writing a description is to go through your bookshelf or your kindle and read all the descriptions you can find of professionally published novels, and model your description after those. If you don't have any published novels, look through the descriptions...

This is just a suggestion, but your story's synopsis is two sentences long and has five typos. That's going to turn off a lot of potential readers. If you fix that, you might get more people willing to give feedback. I took a glance at the first chapter, but I would highly recommend running it...

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I'll suggest my story here, The Eighth Warden. 1. calm - yes 2. not naive or dense - yes, though he doesn't know things he'd have no way of knowing at this point in the story 3. male mc - yes 4. I don't know what this one means 5. everybody's taste is different, and this is the beginning of...

The Eighth Warden takes a lot of inspiration from the feel of a tabletop role-playing game campaign, but translating it into an epic fantasy story without any of the game mechanics.

I'll post some specific items, though I agree with the comment that it's pretty wordy. I won't pull everything out, but I'll list some of the things you should watch out for when you're working on second drafts and beyond: 1. "the shadows of seagulls were ink black to Fredrick's eyes, besides...

I check about once an hour if I happen to be sitting at my computer. Does anyone know how often the stats actually update? It seems like there's no change at all for a long time, then suddenly the numbers go up by a lot all at once.

The numbers I've seen for novels are that they typically average 3000 to 5000 words, but the needs of the chapter are more important than the size requirements. I've seen people suggest smaller sizes for web fiction, to help people reading on mobile, but since I release my stuff as ebooks, I...

I might recommend mine, too. The Eighth Warden It only talks about the setting as it pertains to the story, and only to the extent that the point-of-view character is aware of it. There are no info dumps. But since it's meant to be a fairly long story, plenty of details do come out along the...

Some characters are easier for me to write than others. In The Eighth Warden, Shavala's the hardest character to write so far, which is why she's had fewer point-of-view scenes. I've been improving, and I think she'll come into her voice eventually, but I've found it harder to make her...

Yes, that happens to me, too. The characters take shape as I write them. I don't usually plan out the characters' personalities in advance, because as I write, they find their own voice. And once they do, that's how I think of them.

Thanks for the feedback, Elateam! Brandon Sanderson's definitely the expert at magic systems. Or at least hard magic systems, using the definition above. He puts a lot of work into making things internally and externally consistent. My world does fall more on the fantasy side than the...

Thanks for the explanation. I suspect this story falls somewhere in between hard and soft magic. Taken as a whole, magic is soft, in that there are different ways to use it. For each character, it's hard--that character has specific, pre-defined spells they know. They may be able to learn...

I haven't actually heard the terms hard magic or soft magic before, so I don't know how to answer that. ...but, in regard to this story, I've mapped out each main character's growth, matched up to the major story beats. I may need to tweak things as I go, to keep the power levels consistent...

Mizu, thank you for the feedback! Yes, spacing them out more is an option that might work. Perhaps after I've finished Book 1, I could give that a try. In some cases, the flashbacks are designed to come before a certain scene, but I may be able to change those things. As for the harem thing, it...