Recent content by Prince of Spires

I thought Ascii was just the basic numerical representation of characters (like 65 = A and 90 = Z). Not something you code in as such.

I hadn't heard of her or the book, but that is just a brilliant title that grabs my instant attention.

I think this is really at the heart of the problem. You published on Wattpad as an afterthought. No trad-publisher wants the book so I'll just do that - kind of idea. Now there is nothing wrong with that. However, you must know that you are competing for people's attention with other authors...

It sounds like a fun premise.

I took a very quick look, and I spotted a bunch of problems. The biggest by far is that the cover, the blurb, and the prologue don't match. The cover doesn't fit a fantasy story for me, not an urban fantasy story (which the blurb suggests), nor an epic fantasy story (which seems to match the...

Pegasi aren't on the supernatural collective noun cheat sheet I came across somewhere unfortunately, otherwise I'd have an answer for you (and I can't upload attachements in this thread, making it hard to show...). Closest I get are griffons (which would be a senate of griffons) or unicorns...

Welcome LNLWLN! What's your work about?

Discoverability is always hard, for any author on any platform. Some people get lucky and land on a new platform early and are found organically. But most people have to work hard at it. Simply putting a story out there and hoping for the best isn't good enough on any platform unfortunately...

Or pegasoi. Greek word, greek plural. Both are acceptable. Unless you're a purist and accept there's only 1.

What's the question? They aren't even contradicting in my view. Rather they say the same thing. The saying you shouldn't judge a book by its cover implies that most people actually do judge a book by its cover (otherwise, you wouldn't have to explain it). And the reason people do is because a...

Since I like arguing with people, I'm going to (slightly) disagree with you here. Not on 536 AD by the way. Wonderful time to be alive really... But I am going to disagree about Ages and being gradual. Some are sudden. Something happens. Some guy in a boat discoveres a new continent or someone...

I would probably ask them what exactly they mean when they'd give me such a critique. It could very well be that something else feels wrong to the reader, but they can't explain it directly so they resort to calling it purple. Also, consider that not all writing is for everyone. Maybe your...

To tackle the question from another angle, write what interests you. Writing a novel is a big time commitment (500 words per hour gives 200 hours for a first draft). So I pick era's that interest me and build a setting based on those. Which partially explains why I gravitate towards...

Congrats on getting this far. Don't worry about length. My personal experience with first novels is that the next one will get longer. A novel needs an aweful lot of stuff happening to get to 50.000 or 100.000 words. A lot more than you probably realized when you started. Don't worry about it...

For being drawn on a napkin, that pegasus looks amazing.