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  1. CubicleHermit

    What about synopsis feedback?

    First, thanks! I actually made it worse; I've reverted it to the original nanowrimo description > Mark, a nerdy kid without many friends, chooses to follow his friend to a new high school in a new world. After all, it can’t be worse than NYC in the early 1990s. At some point I'll need to...
  2. CubicleHermit

    Tell not show

    One thing I try to take to heart (and usually fail at) is what TVTropes calls "The Law of Conservation of Detail." The second example is an interesting read on its own, but if you're aiming this at a reader - particularly outside of literary-for-its-own-sake writing - you have to ask "what does...
  3. CubicleHermit

    What about synopsis feedback?

    https://www.scribblehub.com/series/433915/my-best-friend-is-a-prince-from-another-world/ Story itself is quite a ways in and will be posting it in chunks, happy to have any beta readers but what I could really use feedback on is the synopsis paragraphs. I wrote something off the top of for when...
  4. CubicleHermit

    appropriate word count for chapters and tips on how to switch naturally between first person to third person

    For a published example (although it's a one-shot novel, not a series), Once a Hero, by Michael A. Stackpole. Alternates between two timelines and two MC, one written in first person, one written in fairly tight third person.
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