Recent content by Zagaroth

During travel, you want to write about: A) highlights of the travel itself (interesting views, interactions with border guards for characters new to this sort of travel, etc) B) interesting social interactions between the characters. Do you have the start of a burgeoning romance? Maybe spend...

Alright, there is certainly more depth to the description, though jumping straight in at chapter 6 has left me confused about exactly what is going on. 😁 I would suggest combining some of your smaller lines more, especially when you break up dialogue. I would do as: There's no reason for...

That relates how a particular relationship in my story expanded from 3 people to, mm, let's call it 3+1 people, rather than 4. It's complicated. On the one hand, my readers were definitely vibing with the idea of this fourth person joining the group, which had not been my original intention but...

I mean, yes, that's a very common romance formula, especially in anime. But that is not the romance formula for the feel-good romance movies on the holidays, and for Romance books, there's a whole slew of formulas. And when it comes to stories that have romance but are not romance-first...

I find cozy romance fairly easy to write, but I've always been a bit of a romantic. The basic formula to me is to start with people who can be friends and have the potential for deep bonds outside of romance, then mix in sexual attraction, and from there build ever deeper bonds of trust and...

They started off shorter. Editing added a lot of content when I came back to them years later...

My early chapters are heavily rewritten from before. How an event players out in chapter 4 has been redone to better fit the characters, which ties to a change in a different event in chapter 6, which then has ripple effects that die down as the details get less important. On the opposite side...

Half-life isn't a big deal, you know, just the game that made Valve a known name in the gaming space, kickstarting the process that gave us Steam... https://store.steampowered.com/app/70/HalfLife/ As for what type of game, I'd go with FPS adventure as a fast description.

Well, if we go all the way back to the Atari 800 where I could play Centipede, Space Invaders, and Pac Man, we're looking at about 40 years. 😁

There's a reason I heavily edited and/or completely rewrote my first dozen chapters, then did more editing for the entire first volume (through CH 42) Working on V2 right now.

Your sample reads a lot like a script for a play or movie. The reason that scripts can be so sparse is that it is the job of the actors to round out and bring the characters to life, while it is the job of the director and stage hands and such to bring the setting around the actor to life...

40+ years of reading fantasy novels. 35+ years of TTRPGs/D&D, video games, and anime/manga 30+ years of experience with interactive, short form writing (i.e., online roleplay via chatrooms and forums) Ongoing exposure to more stories and new ideas. I had been reading stories on Royal Road for...

Witch, because she's less likely to be confused and/or conflicted about her feelings, and you'll know pretty quickly whether you fall into the category of "datable", "friends only", or "go away before i turn you into a frog". The knight is going to be worried about whether a potential romance...

Over on RR, I had this guy try to rip into my story in the comments, except everything he said was a gross mischaracterization. Like, having a bad day much dude? And clearly he had trouble with reading comprehension. Here's an example: When the accurate version of events was her hitting with a...

I am incredibly inconsistent, as any and all interruptions/delays are amplified by the effects of ADHD. Including the self-inflicted ones.