soulstorm
New Member
Hi everybody,
Last spring I had to return home due to the epidemic. I found myself unemployed and with an awful lot of time at my disposal. Having a little money aside, I decided to invest the summer pursuing amusement and hobbies
. Almost four months ago, I began to scribble some short fantasy tales without pretension. These tales turned into a modest collection, over 90k marks spread among 6 stories and 2 letters, dangerously reassembling a novel. I’m only a few days away to conclude this curious journey into writing; in the past years, I never let slip away anything I wrote from my secured directory, but this very time I’d like to receive a feedback. I’ve seen there are plenty of options to self-publish your work out there, however, I wouldn’t dare to publish it unless somebody checks my grammar. Although I’ve been living in English-speaking countries for the last 7 years, I’m far for perfection. I really feel my writing needs the touch of native to sand the rough edges.
Often I had fierce arguments with the auto-correcting AI regarding the use of the commas, other times I grieved over the choice of the right verb tenses; 'flip the coin, 50% to blame,' had been a common way to get past it. I struggled to see the threshold between -style- and -no, I appreciate the idea but you can’t do that in English-. Writing fiction in a different language has been a good experience to put myself to the test, but I realized I can’t do it on my own.
Even though partially independent from one another, these stories are narrated in a precise chronological order and revolved around a protagonist. Romance, betrayal, conflict, sacrifice, commitment, legacy, and so on. Most of the themes dealt borders the cliche of the genre, nevertheless, it never aimed to be a tale of great heroes upon which depend the destiny of the world, rather the travel of a simple magician who is determined to return home.
And here we are, is anybody willing to help me proof-reading this? (or at least giving a chance to it ?)
Thanks to all
Last spring I had to return home due to the epidemic. I found myself unemployed and with an awful lot of time at my disposal. Having a little money aside, I decided to invest the summer pursuing amusement and hobbies
. Almost four months ago, I began to scribble some short fantasy tales without pretension. These tales turned into a modest collection, over 90k marks spread among 6 stories and 2 letters, dangerously reassembling a novel. I’m only a few days away to conclude this curious journey into writing; in the past years, I never let slip away anything I wrote from my secured directory, but this very time I’d like to receive a feedback. I’ve seen there are plenty of options to self-publish your work out there, however, I wouldn’t dare to publish it unless somebody checks my grammar. Although I’ve been living in English-speaking countries for the last 7 years, I’m far for perfection. I really feel my writing needs the touch of native to sand the rough edges.Often I had fierce arguments with the auto-correcting AI regarding the use of the commas, other times I grieved over the choice of the right verb tenses; 'flip the coin, 50% to blame,' had been a common way to get past it. I struggled to see the threshold between -style- and -no, I appreciate the idea but you can’t do that in English-.
Writing fiction in a different language has been a good experience to put myself to the test, but I realized I can’t do it on my own.Even though partially independent from one another, these stories are narrated in a precise chronological order and revolved around a protagonist. Romance, betrayal, conflict, sacrifice, commitment, legacy, and so on. Most of the themes dealt borders the cliche of the genre, nevertheless, it never aimed to be a tale of great heroes upon which depend the destiny of the world, rather the travel of a simple magician who is determined to return home.
And here we are, is anybody willing to help me proof-reading this?
(or at least giving a chance to it ?)Thanks to all
Myth Weaver
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