Recent content by Yukinara

This is my story: a boy raised up by two girls. By the time the story happen, he is 16 and they are around 26-27. They teach him difference things and care for him. So I have him called them "Master" because their relationship is like Anakin and Obi-wan. But 2 beta readers suggested me to change...

maybe I had to clarify this again. There is nothing hanky panky going on when they were together. It's not like "ha. he is old enough, let's have seck". It was purely caring. The main point of the story is maturity. That's why when the main event happen and they were apart, he was around 16-17...

That is called The tale of Genji (Genji Monogatari). It was a classic novel from Japan and it's considered the world first novel. The first conflict of that novel is about Genji and Lady Fujitsubo, a lady who was older than him. Later he found Murasaki, who was Lady Fujitsuo's niece, and...

yes, I agree with you. Age is not the real problem. The thing is, because she took care of his basic needs from the young age and he grew up looking at her as the mother figure. It would be squicked for them to look at each other in a special way. I think I will increase the age. She will meet...

This is the basic plot for my book: a woman took the young hero under her care for over 15 years (when he was around 1 year old). At the beginning of the book, their relationship is pure and innocent. They cared for each other. After a few chapters they were split apart and tried to look for...

sorry I just realized that I used the wrong term, what I actually meant was reviewer and critique. I hired a couple editors to work for me and I think I already got rid of the majority of the grammar and spelling problem. Now I just want someone read my work and tell me what they think

I just finished my book. It's an action, adventure story on a sci-fi setting. It's a full length novel with 62,000 words divided to 13 chapters. Even though I already published it, I still need some opinions on how to further improve it. Is there anyone here interested in becoming my beta...

Just wondering, anyone here try it before? I meant, from the receiving and giving point, how does it feel like? I need to add a scene of neck kissing to my novel but I can't describe how it feel. Either kiss on the forehead or neck but I never had both fix: both of them are around 17-18, first...

what do you mean by "too busy"?

These are a few covers I made for my upcoming book. It's an action/scifi/romance novel. So far I'm happy with the background but not sure about the sword. In my novel, the light sword play an important role but I'm not sure what design I should use so I need some feed back

in my novel, scifi is just a setting, it is not hard scifi and I don't focus too much to explain things like galaxy, etc, I keep the story strictly to personal feeling.

oh really? to me, cross genre is a perfect tool to expand my novel. I just finished the first book and now I look back, I have around 5-6 genres inside, my book is action/adventure with romance and on scifi/fantasy setting. I agree with the idea that genre is just a box which authors can pick...

I guess each person has his own opinion but I agree that inserting the illustration right after the first appearance is important. The reader can have an idea how that character look like

actually I plan to self publish this book so I don't really need to care too much about the publisher. And I don't plan for something too colorful either. I just want to insert some character illustration here and there. I just wonder if it is obtrusive to the reading experience or not

I'm writing an action/sci-fi novel and I know a guy who can draw some pictures for me. My question is: is it ok to put like 5-6 illustrations in a 50,000 novel? Is there any general rule about this one?