Recent content by Truepinkas

Also, just food for thought, with this formatting you are basically asking your readers to endure three opening chapters, the prologue, Ch1, and Ch2. You need to have them all be very strong and have good hooks to drag them all the way through to the meat of your story.

I'm fine with the timeline, seems good given his reason for writing things down. I'm not sold on the secondary narrator, but if you can make it work, go for it.

I don't think you will ever find an artist who is up to the standard of skill you'd like your project to be AND willing to do the work without pay. Unless you have the most brilliant story concept ever, why would they work for free on your project instead of working for free on a project of...

I believe there is a threshold you should meet before you publish (even self publish), but here's the thing, as a general statement, most people are terrible at gauging their own work. You need to find an objective third party to help you in this evaluation. I'm going to give an anecdote...

IMO, it is all practice for whatever you end up doing next. I can not imagine a scenario where I don't want the next thing I do to be better than the last. As for wasting 'good ideas', ideas are cheap. Execution makes or breaks ideas. It doesn't matter if the idea is new or fresh or old...

Well School or classes aren't going to hurt I guess, but they are far from necessary in my humble opinion. I think there are three things you can do that will really help you out. 1. Start writing. Like right now! It doesn't matter what, but short stories are often suggested as novels can...

You may find this useful regarding ringed planets. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roche_limit

The best advice I can give is find places to reword things. Instead of saying: The wind washed over the treetops and prevented her from hearing anything else. You could say: The wind washed over the treetops preventing anything else from being heard. I don't personally have a problem with...

I just thought some of you may enjoy reading tips being given on the otherside of the fence, especially useful if you are trying your own hand at cover art. Muddy Colors: 10 Things...Painting Book Covers

Indeed, between stylization, personal preferences and subjectivity, there are countless ways to express the same thing. Your choices are what make your writing your own. I'll sometimes write five or six different variations of the same scene until I get something I'm happy with, starting...

I personally can't stand only being able to tell who was speaking through backward references. I find it sloppy, as I think there is always a way to avoid it if you try hard enough. Also, you may want to consider losing whatever actual word is said by Linnea, I think it's sufficient...

I'd consider doing it in a one shot work, but if it were something where I was even vaugly thinking of returning to that world I'd not do it. No sense getting continuity locked for something that isn't nessessary for the story. Just my thoughts though.

When I first started my writing project I googled things like average length of a novel, length of a chapter number of words per page and as many other metrics as I could think of. I was obsessed very briefly with filling out chapters or editing them down to hit my percieved 'sweet spot'. I...

I think seeing someone smiling at me and reaching for my forehead before I blackout and wake up in a dungeon is grounds for suspicion in it's own right and at least should illicit a 'What did he do to me?' response. Might be fun to play it a bit more casual at first, like a sleepy person just...

Howdy, I'm new as well. I'm not terribly familiar with a number of sub-genres. What exactly is urban mythology? Is it essentially classic gods and such in modern setting? Sounds interesting either way.