Recent content by Archon of Cringe

I thank everyone who kindly shared their advice in this thread and have read them all. Writing is hard, and I've been frustrated I've been struggling to communicate what I want on the page. In my head everything makes sense, and I want to piece by piece reveal things. But when I've received...

I've read books where characters would sometimes monologue and reminisce about where they are and who they are meeting to add context to a scene. That's what I'm talking about. This especially.

I guess that also comes into how much exposition is necessary and fitting it all into a beginning, shifting what is necessary and unnecessary. This is hard when I've tried to *show* the fantasy world's magic system without explaining it, it's technology without expositing, and the governmental...

I don't know what you mean by "shoot for fancy." I am trying to establish those three things you mentioned. I haven't ironed out the exact details but that doesn't matter. It's not like I can communicate all those details without boring or overwhelming the audience. I want to know what an...

I used to believe in the show-don't-tell idea until I tried removing as much exposition as possible, and people could not follow my world or story. At all. Someone I read in an article said using heavy exposition is like not trusting the reader to pick up on the information. Well, they can't...

Well, if I recall correctly, the Tanakh places the Tower of Babel before the time of Avraham. There were 2 Nebuchadnezzar. I believe the first did the Tower of Bavel and the second is the one who made the Babylonian Empire.

Everyone's advice is amazing, and I am grateful. Here is the weird part. It's fun thinking of the story and writing it. The issue is that whenever people give me negative feedback to the degree of "I don't understand what's going on" "I don't relate to the main character" or the most recent of...

I know that too. But how do I know it's a good drive to get better versus a bad one that I need to prune.

For those of you who know, I joined this forum to get help on a Webnovel I want to write. And I've been thinking of putting it down. As much as I love its ideas and characters I've made, I realize I lack the skills to do it. Every time I try a new thing, I grow unhappy and stop. I've been stuck...

I have a new habit of putting out bad drafts. I used to try and build a good story on the first but now I expect things to be awful the first time around and need another draft too few to make it work. I also overshoot my page goal. Just wrote something I meant to be 15 pages, and the first...

I am good at writing flavorful characters, providing an interesting narrative and flow, and creative worlds and action scenes. My work is currently very readable with the way I write and I've gotten a lot better at describing things with more prose and metaphors than simply saying "X did that."...

So I watched a video on the Testament of Solomon for research and now know the story. It was interesting to hear about these different demons, at least. I just can't believe someone wrote this.

The rivalry between Assyrians and Babylonians are interesting. Especially since the legends of Semiramis and the Hanging Gardens of Babylon mesh that two.

Cyrus is Persia. Still an important figure in Babylonian History since he ended it. lmao

I see, that makes sense. So you wrote about the South American Amazons? That's not the area I'm, researching atm.