Feedback For my Third Person Perspective (I Feel I'm Buns At It)

MakBow

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So, for the passion project of the novel, I'm trying to train my third person perspective and make it better. (I've been writing in First Person for two long)

If you're willing to give feedback on both the prologue and the first chapter, I will appreciate it.

You can also tell me what you think of it if you want.

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Just read your prologue! I'm pretty beginner as a author, so I hope you can accept my humble feedback (*ᴗ͈ˬᴗ͈)ꕤ*.゚

First, the dialogue is nice and I always enjoy a good banter.
However, I think it would be better to make the speaker a bit clearer. Because it's not first person and there's quite a few characters, it can be tough to figure out who's talking.

Chapter 1 is much clearer though. Maybe it's easier since the characters are revealed one by one.

But overall, I like it!

If you do feel offended, feel free to critique me! I have a lot of problems...

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MakBow

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Just read your prologue! I'm pretty beginner as a author, so I hope you can accept my humble feedback (*ᴗ͈ˬᴗ͈)ꕤ*.゚

First, the dialogue is nice and I always enjoy a good banter.
However, I think it would be better to make the speaker a bit clearer. Because it's not first person and there's quite a few characters, it can be tough to figure out who's talking.

Chapter 1 is much clearer though. Maybe it's easier since the characters are revealed one by one.

But overall, I like it!

If you do feel offended, feel free to critique me! I have a lot of problems...

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No, no. You gave good feedback. These are things I need, so don't feel you offended me because you gave me an honest critique. :blob_cookie:
 

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Just read up until chapter 2! Sigrún is funny I like her :blob_happy:

Most of the stories I've written are in third-person with past tense, that's my only qualification, so take my feedback with a grain of salt <:

I noticed that you used 'would' a lot for actions, he would do this, it would do that. I've never really seen actions written like that but it does give the impression of not being confident in their own choice of action. Saying you would take a step back doesn't mean you will necessarily.

'Would' indicates that a person can do it at some point, just not now and definitely not for certain. But I don't want you to feel conscious on writing 'would' now that I pointed it out, there are places where you used it in the right context such as :

And using her power, she wouldn’t use her power to kill powerful foes, slay tyrants, nor end wars as they were created to do.

Instead, she would kill weak monsters for her little slime friend [...]

From a simple google search :
["Will" expresses definite future actions and certainty, while "would" signifies hypothetical, conditional, or imaginary situations.]

But I might be wrong, I've seen actions written like that in roleplay spaces in the past but never seen it in books that are written in past tense itself.

Also, don't worry too much with not being good at a POV you've rarely written in, third-person and first-person is vastly different in many ways after all. Keep on practicing and you'll get used to it!

If you're interested, you can narrow down on what type of third-person POV you want to write in—omniscient, limited, or objective—and learn some more about it.
 

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I noticed that you used 'would' a lot for actions, he would do this, it would do that. I've never really seen actions written like that but it does give the impression of not being confident in their own choice of action. Saying you would take a step back doesn't mean you will necessarily.

'Would' indicates that a person can do it at some point, just not now and definitely not for certain. But I don't want you to feel conscious on writing 'would' now that I pointed it out, there are places where you used it in the right context such as :
That is one form of "passive voice" and generally needs to be minimized or avoided in writing.
 
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