Specificity is where one's talents can shine. I need to work on that. Personally, I get too caught up in the melodrama between characters, and fast progression. I need to learn to slow down.
This sounds cool. I enjoy this kind of specificity in a book when authors go out of their way to share their interest in language. The way Tolkien did it was pretty intense, lol, I could never do something like that.
I'm thinking of introducing these into the protagonist's internal monologue but I've only seen it done successfully mostly in comedy web novels and some well-written dramatic ones, when it's done in more serious novels it sometimes comes across as cringey. I'm not a comedy writer so I suspect it...
Sorry to those seeing this, my sincere apologies. I have an "Edit" button but not a "Delete" one on the first message here, so I'm not sure how to remove the thread. Hopefully, other threads will overtake this one soon and it'll disappear from view.
I'm wondering how I should go about getting feedback without being too overbearing. The next 30 chapters or so are pretty much settled and will follow through on exploring the current arc, but I'm super curious about what parts readers are actually interested in the most. Is it appropriate to...