Recent content by ThisAdamGuy

I finally got the critique request up. I'd appreciate it if you took a look!

No, so I'm taking that as a sign that she means the whole book. EDIT: she did mention one chapter that she thinks I should delete entirely.

Yeah. I want to post a critique request, but it won't let me even though I've made more than five posts.

Honestly, I would advise not going to WattPad. Their forums used to be good, but now they're run by mods and admins who like to play thought police. They'll let people certain users harass others so long as their views line up with the their own, and come down on the people being harassed if...

I'm a total Brandon Sanderson nut. My sister got me his latest book, Starsight, for Christmas, and I'm rereading the first book in the series, Skyward, before diving into it. I'm also listening to The Wheel of Time: Fires of Heaven as an audiobook while I drive and am at work.

I only have one dragon in Henry Rider: Clown Hunter so far, but it's notably different than most in that it guards a dump instead of a hoard of gold. Instead of breathing fire, it eats garbage, then regurgitates it in a big acidic wave.

Good news! A literary agent says she's interested in my story. Not so good news! She can't accept it until I do some rewriting. Namely, she wants me to work on making the story more visceral. "The biggest area of revisions needed is in the abundance of telling. The sensory details should have...

pmmg, I write fantasy novels, usually YA fantasy given my default writing style, and I post a new chapter every week until the book is finished. My website is BolanderBooks (apparently I'm not allowed to post links) if you want a better idea of what I do. I can't really do anything with those...

I started out self-publishing, and when I turned out to not be any good at that I turned to publishing my stories as free to read webserials, where I saw some moderate success. Now I want to get traditionally published. What kind of hurdles can I expect? Is it even worth trying?