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Hi, this looks interesting, count me in

Hi, and welcome! I can read a chapter or two and provide feedback (144K words is probably too much for me to take on now)

Welcome! Good luck with your writing, if you have any questions, or need critique, a lot of people on this site can help.

Thor's Nuts!

Amazon takes 30% of the ebook sales, and 70% go to you. The process is in fact as simple as 'upload pdf, boop, done', believe it or not. You can also publish in print via Amazon, at the same time or later. If you want to publish in print NOT via Amazon, it depends on the publisher. Some...

I write scripts. My current WIP is called "Honey". It's a mockumentary following the extraordinary life of a young woman from a gas station clerk to President of the United States.

Game of Thrones did this all the time. The North is very clearly Scotland, Dothraki are Mongols, Dorne is Spain and Iron Islands are Vikings

It might be just me, but I would only accept a pun name in an otherwise-serious work if there is an in-world reason for the pun (eg. Littlefinger in GoT)

Context: years ago, the MC's father was killed in the service of the king, and she received a form "thank you for your sacrifice" letter. Years later, she now meets the king in person. King: Have we met before? MC: We corresponded briefly.

Sorry I did not read all the replies before posting. Great minds etc...

Plot twist: Vashti *is* the antagonist. She's a Daenerys-like character, seeming like a protagonist at first, seeking initially to reclaim her legacy, and later to 'fix' everything that's wrong with the kingdom and the world, but in the end, becomes the evil that she was fighting.

It varies. At some points, the reader is expected to feel "ok this is done and we're not coming back to it" and at others "I wonder if we ever come back to it"

Let's say, around points where a subplot has been naturally exhausted and another begins.

There are going to be questionaires at certain checkpoints. This is of course not a fass/fail test for the reader, but info-gathering for me - was it understandable that X and Y are connected, did Z affect the reader they way I expected it to, etc.

The whole structure. And we're going to assume the reader knows nothing except for the 150-word blurb