Hi I just wanted to thank everyone in this community.
I am sadly more of a lurker than a contributor though I have made some posts and been somewhat active.
But thanks to reading and following many a thread here I have gotten a lot of tips and confidence in my own writing process.
Since joining...
I am doing my best in that regard. The violence as far as my experiences tell me are real and the MC is not actually that dark or mysterious as the entire novel is written in a true first person perspective. Well at least that's the intent.
Thank you for saying that, it actually settles my...
Hah. That trap is somewhat avoided as the main focus of the first half of my novel basically is his abusive childhood filled with violence and psychological marginalization. While the rest is about living with and showing how he adapts and manages the trauma.
That said its still a fantasy with...
I have recently begin feeling selfconcious about the fact that in my novel feels very intimate to me. What I write is somewhat dark.
It was never my intent to make the maincharacter based on myself, that just happened. But to me when i read my own writing it brings me back to the very traumas...
I haven't actually looked in to that stuff at all yet. And unsolicited mail almost always end up scrapped by me anyway.
I am very bad at promoting my book in general to be honest.
But I'll look into your suggestions. Thank you very much.
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It fell right into my sweetspot for magic and fantasy. I felt the way he connected and managed the timeloop was inspired 👌