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    A Thank You to the community.

    Thanks, I do have a lot of freetime that's probably why.
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    A Thank You to the community.

    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...
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    Writing grim dark fantasy with self injected main character

    I think asking was harder than the answers if I'm honest. Now I feel a little silly for being worried. Which is very preferable to before.
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    Writing grim dark fantasy with self injected main character

    Makes sense. I think my worries stems from the fact that its hard do distance one self from, well, one self
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    Writing grim dark fantasy with self injected main character

    That sounds like a healthy way to do it. In a nutshell: be aware of it and only engage if you are ready to handle it.
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    Writing grim dark fantasy with self injected main character

    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...
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    What do we think of POV writing?

    That was surprisingly smoother and coherent head hopping. I'm impressed.
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    Writing grim dark fantasy with self injected main character

    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...
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    Writing grim dark fantasy with self injected main character

    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...
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    Self publishing the first book in my new fantasy series.

    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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    Self publishing the first book in my new fantasy series.

    Holy crap.That was an amazing review. Thank you very much and I am ecstatic that you enjoyed it 😄
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    Self publishing the first book in my new fantasy series.

    Makes more sense. Sometimes life happens 👍
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    Self publishing the first book in my new fantasy series.

    Because of the stellar review?
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    Self publishing the first book in my new fantasy series.

    Yeah they are very nitpicky sadly. But yes it felt frikkin amazing 😁👌
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    Most recent books you bought.

    Mother of learning by nobody103 It fell right into my sweetspot for magic and fantasy. I felt the way he connected and managed the timeloop was inspired 👌
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