bulmabriefs144
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A mixture of accomplishment and a strong desire to write future edits on a pad of paper.
As an author, how do you feel when you reread your novels?
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It's a perfect moment to reread and decide how good your work really is :)
Zagaroth
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I love rereading my work, especially now that my early chapters are fixed. I end up laughing at some parts, or tearing up with others.
This story is one that has come to life for me. I took the quote "write the story you want to read that no one else has written" to heart. This has resulted in a story that is very loved by some, but not to the taste of people who want a laser focus on one aspect. I need more breadth in my stories.
So there is power growth, there are bits of training, there is cool magic, there are strange creatures, some of which are deliberately given funny names in-universe, there are friendships and romance and heated desires, but no explicit scenes because I neither want to read nor write them. I find the details of sex best left to the imagination when it comes to any form of media. High level over views to give your imagination hints do happen sometimes, but only if the events are important in some way (such as the emotions involved and why the character is in a particular mood or thinking certain thoughts the next morning).
I don't even kill off any MC parents! For this story at least.
The second half follows another pair of characters, one of whom grew up in an orphanage as a foundling, and the other lost her parents at the age of eight.
Anyway, I am writing a story because I see all of this happening in my head. It is a story I love to continue to create and improve upon. I'll even be adding some additional chapters into my published books because there is always more I can expand upon for the characters. For example, I did not get into the details of how Mordecai stared Kazue's training with magic, so we get a small time skip between chapters 12 and 13. The published versions will have a chapters "12.5" and it will show what happened there. Though I'll actually just renumber them, not use a .5 designation
This story is one that has come to life for me. I took the quote "write the story you want to read that no one else has written" to heart. This has resulted in a story that is very loved by some, but not to the taste of people who want a laser focus on one aspect. I need more breadth in my stories.
So there is power growth, there are bits of training, there is cool magic, there are strange creatures, some of which are deliberately given funny names in-universe, there are friendships and romance and heated desires, but no explicit scenes because I neither want to read nor write them. I find the details of sex best left to the imagination when it comes to any form of media. High level over views to give your imagination hints do happen sometimes, but only if the events are important in some way (such as the emotions involved and why the character is in a particular mood or thinking certain thoughts the next morning).
I don't even kill off any MC parents! For this story at least.
The second half follows another pair of characters, one of whom grew up in an orphanage as a foundling, and the other lost her parents at the age of eight.
Anyway, I am writing a story because I see all of this happening in my head. It is a story I love to continue to create and improve upon. I'll even be adding some additional chapters into my published books because there is always more I can expand upon for the characters. For example, I did not get into the details of how Mordecai stared Kazue's training with magic, so we get a small time skip between chapters 12 and 13. The published versions will have a chapters "12.5" and it will show what happened there. Though I'll actually just renumber them, not use a .5 designation