Given that I said "personally" and then stated personal feelings, in what stretch of the imagination did I insinuate, entertain, or suggest that it is actually pervy to include romance? I said I do not read stories of intimate, in this case meaning sexual, relationships between any underage...
Based solely on this summary, I can tell you that this is absolutely something I would read. Witches, vamps, and faries are my thing. I would 10/10 read something with that summary on the cover.
Personally I think that it's one hell of a double standard that you speak of. That said, I do not personally read relationships with characters that are under age since becoming of age myself. It comes across as pervy to read on about relationships that are of an intimate nature between...
The middle is always the hard part. What worked for me was sequencing events by the chapter. I summarized each three-chapter sections and then broke it down into each chapter after that. It allowed me to sequence the events in order, check for flow, and also fill in all the blanks where there...
If you take your ideas from sources such as mythology it would be something that the general population would find acceptable, whereas copying from someone else's works would be considered a terrible idea. There's already a bird-like species you could probably borrow from mythology, sirens, and...
I think that an easy way to distinguish your work from Jk's is by introducing, perhaps, the idea that witches and wizards are not equally the same in all but gender. I've read somewhere that a witch is more like a medicinal healer. Maybe consider having it be a school of mages or something of...
Well. I see the similarity in that the star children are placed randomly through the wilderness and pitted against one another. I really like the idea that all if the children could die off and then the winner would become the sacrifice. That part really sets it apart. There are no guarantees...
It's an interesting premise but it makes me think of hunger games. The titles are interesting enough. I would undoubtedly read this if you wrote it, but I do want to know more. I really like the idea so far.
I'm not opposed to reading mixed subgenres, but I do not actively seek them out unless they are recommended to me. Most of my reading list consists of recommended stories. I very infrequently discover something on my own unless it's audible because those credits burn a hole in my virtual wallet.
Hello. I'm looking to start or find a group of supportive writers. I would love to help critique your stories on an exchange basis. I write middle grade fantasy myself and am working on my second book.
My biggest pet peeve that is the biggest turn off for me is when the world literally hands everything to the protagonist. I recently read a story that embodied this entirely. The protagonist was tired of a bird singing. The bird falls over dead. The protagonist runs away from home and gets tired...
I'm pretty new to world building and serious writing, but here's what I've planned and begun. I created a new world, an earth like planet I haven't named, and created a country. That country is Clayce, "the country of mages." Clayce is a country where my characters are born with an incomplete...