Recent content by JLiana

5 chapters is still impressive! I believe in you!

I will!

Thank you!!

It's such a good feeling! I know exactly what you mean. (And also thank you!)

Hello all! Hope you're all well. ♥️ Uh, not really a question, just a minor celebration of getting eleven chapters into my novel. I know it's not much, but I struggle with my mental health and it feels huge! I'm learning how to actually apply myself and make myself write everyday instead of...

There's something powerful in knowing that it wasn't totally hopeless for women back then. Kind of make me teary-eyed as a survivor. Thanks for sharing!

I can't find another way to explain my process, I'm sorry if this doesn't make much sense. 😅 I like to think of it as panning a camera through my scene. So there's a logical start, where we open something significant, or with the character themselves. If the character is moving, the camera...

Haha, that's fair. I may be getting ahead of myself. I want to say readers would understand, but a critique on another story I wrote said that the dialogue was confusing and they couldn't follow who was saying what, even though the scene was between two people and there were only two lines of...

Hello lovely people! So I think I've decided for my MC, Mielli, I want Mielli to be a name she chooses to adopt to better hide while she's on the run. However, whenever there's a POV change I title the chapter that way (eg, the first chapter is now ONE: Liora, followed by two, three, until we...

Oh, I've seen this before, this is exactly how I write! It actually makes writing as a craft make more sense to me.

Hello!!! I hope everyone is doing well! So looking at my writing so far, I seem to average at about 1,700 words per chapter...but I'm looking at other people's work online and their chapters are usually 2,500 words plus. Do I need to be fluffing my chapters? I feel like they're economical and...

For sure, for now I'm just writing the third chapter as a third chapter, and then I'll see how the rest of it goes before I get rid of anything. :)

Yeah, absolutely! I'm learning to cut things in my writing, I knew cutting chapters would eventually creep up and get me. But I super agree that everything that my MC has gone through can be revealed throughout CH3 onwards. Part of my outline is "memory" chapters, just a paragraph or half page...

Oh, absolutely! I don't regret the effort, either. It helped me figure out how I write!

Oh yeah, definitely! I'm not stopping because of this, I need to actually finish a first draft lol. It just made my head spin because I put so much effort into the first two chapters. 🤣