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I have yet to have posted my novel to one of these threads, so here goes. I also sort of reworked chapters 1-9 since I slightly changed genres (steampunk). I completely changed the dialogue and wording and in my opinion, made it less worse...

Around 1000 -1600 words, although my chapters seem to be more like 1240 - 1650 words and upload once per week. If you have a length around this, I would suggest uploading at least one chapter (preferably two or more) per week.

Love the hair!

I definitely have. I spent an entire week changing my story to be steampunk instead of pure futuristic sci fi. To be fair, I’ve improved the writing a lot more, as well as dialogue so that’s a plus. If so, what led you to doing this? I would presume that you had to go back and edit the...

Nope, I just want copy actually good novels gather inspiration for my novel.

Maybe it’s because SH doesn’t have a steampunk tag (but cyberpunk lol), but I have a hard time finding any steampunk novels. Steampunk in general is niche but still… Any recommendations in particular?

I honestly (probably) spend more time on the outline than the actual individual chapters lol. I got done (mostly) with my outline about 240+ days in. I use google docs and put in a bunch of information, then streamline it into bullet points. My chapters then go more into detail.

I’m definitely like that but I do want to like the characters. Characters being completely static is fine but I would hope their personality is tolerable at least, or fun.

Just yesterday, I sort of changed my story into steampunk lol. I still am keeping some futuristic elements. I suppose I like my story’s orginality and lack of overpowered protagonist, alongside a unique setting. Basically, Aperol Spritz is a action book in which people travel to a blue planet...

No Actually no, it was that time when my protagonist had someone bite their but. Instead of fighting back, she went underwater and the butt biter drowned. This may or may not happen in my novel.

See, I would put my work here—BUT I sort of changed the genre (or setting) and therefore; I’ll have to change some chapters. Those chapters sucked anyway…

I should have specifically added this option! I actually tried to make my story decopunk (1920s-1940s like Skull Girls or Bioshock) but it didn’t work out lol. I guess extraterrestrial sci-fi is okay enough… I do agree that WAY TOO many stories take place in Dragon Quest medieval time (bonus...

Sure, nothing is (probably) original anymore and ideas can be executed well. BUT there are some ideas and concepts that are typically less used than others when authors write their protagonist(s) or write their story in general. Select one idea/concept you would want to see more authors deal...

Have the protagonist get tricked into banning human rights.

The covert art is quite nice

The ability to make cookies with a tv.

I’m even like this with character ai lol. I’ve somehow never gotten super deranged when talking to ai before.

So in my novel, I have a ton of sound effects. Stuff like BOOM, SWOOSH, bam, etc. I wondered that when a reader encounters this, are they bothered by it? Is it cringy and objectively bad writing? Or do readers enjoy these kinds of literary devices? Obviously, not all readers are the same. This...

Say what you will but this MC does stand out… I don’t have actually controversial characters per say. Somehow? I have bigots and homicidal people lol. The “controversial” aspects of my story come from governmental systems and rebelling (eventually) against the status quo, which by default makes...

The most common typology system for working with characters (to my knowledge) is the enneagram system. Unsurprising since it works with character goals and fears in a detailed and (usually) nuanced way. I work with enneagram but also mbti (kind of a mismatch) but that’s about it. I’ve heard...