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Just to clarify. Are you referring to the book's complex, unusual lore? I try to weave it into the plot with small explanations. For example, in conversations between people, like their dialogue or reasoning, and comparisons to similar things. Plus, there's a separate glossary at the end of the...

There are different approaches to combating this. In any case, if you have the opportunity to distract yourself from writing by engaging in other writing, that's the best option. For example, you can work on outlining the story and exploring its possible alternatives. This generates various...

I hate flashbacks. Reading them is like stumbling. And yes, I skip them. It's better to write everything from the beginning, where it all begins. It should make it no less interesting. A story is good when its main body contains references. And these should be planted at the beginning of the book.

I'm not sure. And will it even be magic at all? Physicists are already embarking on a path of adding fields and forces acting within them without any explanation. There just has to be an explanation for what's happening, and beyond that, nothing else matters. Well, it's just a field...

I would prefer a scientific explanation for the existence of magic that is consistent with the laws of physics. Even if it's fantasy.

The goal of the action may be trivial (finding a cure for acne) and the intervention minimal (rubbing a candy on your forehead), but the result could be a new genetic species that destroys everything around it, a splitting of reality into multiple possibilities, a distortion of the scale of...

Much that is relevant has already been said here, but the formulations have been vague. One can look at this from a psychological perspective. For example, it is a quality attributed to higher powers, as well as ideals to which people may aspire. It is also presented as transcendent or immanent...

In books, I think they insert a monogram - a small white picture with a black curl. But I often insert words like "after a while..." - for the first person this is normal.

a galactic artificial intelligence that stops development.

The best way for everything is to come up with a separate story for it that will become the justification and background of the world.

On my planet, the year is ambiguous and the number of days in it varies +-5 days. That's why people there celebrate the New Year after the snow melts. And they count the seasons by signs. Because of this, there are no months there.

Could you please give your opinion on the following question? https://forum.scribblehub.com/threads/the-dilemma-of-the-first-chapter-children-of-lays.24341/ Or this: https://www.scribblehub.com/series/867762/go-to-hell/

Thanks for the comment on the topic. Yes, I separated them by titles, considering them separate chapters (I edited this for others). As I already wrote, the third option is more diluted, for a better understanding of the details and is similar to the second. If this does not complicate reading...

Do you consider your spam in the thread to be politeness? Seriously? If I had the option, I would just delete all your messages. They don’t help—instead, they make it clear that you don’t care about my effort. That’s much worse than everything you’ve listed. Moreover, you don't even try to have...

You contradict yourself. First you make it clear that the first lines should immediately tell you whether the story is interesting or not. And now you try to count to 4000 again to determine the same thing. As a result, you have already reached your limit of reading my messages and writing...

And you suffered reading to the end, until you realized that you had read more than 4000 words and only then decided to rip it apart? Very funny. It would be nice to talk about what I provided and not about some unknown novel.

This is not a prologue, but the first arc of about 10 chapters. As I described above, there is more than one chapter there now. In the first version there are 2, in the second 3, in the third already 5. Each is no more than 2500 words. I don't understand, do you have prologues of 3 or more parts...

I decided to put together a decent story from my old ‘forgotten’ draft. Even though the story already has an exciting beginning, I wanted to make the introduction to the world more consistent. And I wanted to leave the main character, who doesn't really have human consciousness, in the...

My strengths - I think I can write. Weaknesses - no, I can't.