Recent content by JLiana

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. 🤣

I just realised the opening of my third chapter would be a fantastic hook for the introduction of my MC. Which would mean scrapping the first two chapters I wrote. Which means I'd be back at having...one chapter. What do you folks think? CH1: "Three herons sprang from the water, toward a...

Oh, there's monsters, magic, etc, it's just they're not exactly super important to the overall story. I saw a critique elsewhere that said signalling genre is important early on, so I was curious what other people thought. 😊

Who's telling the story? What is the story? Who knows!

Hello lovely people. Just wondering what the take is on stories set in a fantasy setting, but lack a lot of the elements that make a story...fantasy. Like magic or dragons. The book I'm writing is more character focused and the obstacles don't include slaying monsters and whatnot (though a...

Thank you, I'll give this a read! 😊

My thinking is that my MC definitely needs someone to push against her in a way that challenges her worldviews, attitudes, etc. She has a reason to leave her situation, something to move towards, and there's moments I have planned out - I just think it might be a little boring if it's just her...

So far I've written in first person subjective with a little interior monologuing. I think I'd write it in third omniscient to retain some interiority. I think my main concern is getting across character emotion within the framework of the story, and maybe third omniscient would be better for...

I've never actually read a book written like that, to be honest!

Yeah, I won't lie when I say it's part of the reason I'm reconsidering it.

I'm about 4 chapters into my novel, and I'm questioning the POV I'm writing in. So far I've written from the first person perspective of my MC Mielli, because the story is ultimately about her journey to recover from trauma (so it seemed natural). Recently I decided that I'm going to give her...

I see what you mean! In my defense, I did search "what painkillers were used in medieval Finland" (the story I'm writing about is loosely based on Finland's climate, so I wanted to know about specific plants), it's just too easy for me to click on the other links on Wikipedia. But I will keep...