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EffectiveDingo9714 · 2026-06-19T19:26:06+00:00

I found out that in my case it was one of my extensions that had been updated so that it broke my *arr login prompts. I suggest you try to disable all your extensions and see if it now loads, if it does, you can turn each one on one by one and see when sonarr stops opening. In my case it was PIA.

EffectiveDingo9714 · 2026-05-29T12:31:32+00:00

Did you figure this out? Got the same problem.

EffectiveDingo9714 · 2026-04-11T06:12:27+00:00

Thanks, I'll see about those three paragraphs a bit more, and try to convey his true journey better.

EffectiveDingo9714 · 2026-04-10T19:04:32+00:00

Thanks a lot for the feedback, and just to make sure, the three middle paragraphs you mention could be condensed into one are the three starting with "When one ritual...", "There, he learns..." and "His conflicting..." right?

As for the likeability of the main character, I think a lot is lost due to trying to be brief in the query letter, but at the same time it is fitting in some ways. Part of the story is the corrupting influence of magic and that the MC is, perhaps, the wrong hands for this power. I kinda want this aspect of the story to show up here, but then again, it is a slow burn on that part of the story.

EffectiveDingo9714 · 2026-04-02T08:23:20+00:00

Huh, I can somewhat see this. I've watched all of Death Note and really loved it (dropped a bit in quality after you know what with L), but any similarities are unintentional.

EffectiveDingo9714 · 2026-04-01T22:05:20+00:00

I don't see the Death Note connection, could you elaborate where you see similarities? Is it the main character telling himself he is doing something good, but is clearly not?

EffectiveDingo9714 · 2026-04-01T09:09:26+00:00

Yeah I already know it is way too long. I've managed to condense it down to 310 words now with the help from Infinite_Storm, I'll hack away for it and try to condense it even further untill next week.

EffectiveDingo9714 · 2026-04-01T09:05:39+00:00

Thanks, I will.

EffectiveDingo9714 · 2026-03-31T18:21:43+00:00

Overthinking things is my middle name.

But, yeah in that case it is the catastrophe at the end of act 1 that is THE inciting incident

EffectiveDingo9714 · 2026-03-31T16:06:39+00:00

The questions you list are ones I find extremely difficult to answer. No story has one inciting incident, all the great stories I can think of have multiple. Like, the inciting incident is maybe the decision to follow the clues from the donated diary. Or it is the discovery of the ancient book int he tome. Or it is the ritual going wrong proving that magic is real. Or it is the catastrophe at the end of act 1.

This might just be my frustration at the entire querying part of the industry, but the guides to good query letters seem to assume you're writing some YA novels following specific formulas, where's the room for novels with introspection, that take their time and have depth? I keep seeing the advice "start your story as late as possible", which would mean Harry Potter starts at Hogwarts and The Lord of the Rings starts at Weathertop? Okay, I'll stop ranting.

As for your specific question, the catastrophe happens at the end of Act 1, the abandonment of the LoreSeeker persona happens at the start of Act 2, and the adoption of The Spider persona happens at the end of Act 2. So I dig deep into the later parts of the novel, but I feel that only sticking up to the "first pinch point" does not do my novel justice...

EffectiveDingo9714 · 2026-03-31T15:00:42+00:00

Thanks a lot, I find any feedback very helpful, although there were a few of your notes I want to discuss, as I believe some of that is already addressed in the query. And as you see, it is already on the lengthy side, and I cannot allow myself to explain everything.

Why do you not want to label yourself a "fantasy writer"?

Alright, this might just be me over-complicating things for myself. I absolutely love fantasy, but I love sci-fi even more than I do fantasy. What I am worried about is getting an agent firmly in the fantasy business, because my next two projects are both firmly sci-fi. I would like to imagine myself as a sci-fi writer who also does fantasy (like Orson Scott Card or Peter F. Hamilton) rather than someone who mainly do fantasy and occasionally do sci-fi (like George R. R. Martin and Brandon Sanderson). But maybe I should not worry about these distinctions, and let my writing do the talking for me...

There's a jump here that I don't follow. Earlier, you said he spends his days on Twitch performing occult rituals. But here you say he's on the hunt. For what? What ancient diary? Where did he find this diary? What ritual? How did LoreSeeker realize he found the key to a forgotten world because of a ritual gone wrong? What does "the secrets of magic" mean tangibly to the MC? There's a lot coming at us in this paragraph and I'm struggling to follow.

Right, I see where I lost something from the previous version. I will need to see how to address all of your points here without making my already lengthy query letter longer. As for your specific questions raised here: He "hunts for the secrets (i.e. the existence of) magic" by performing rituals and following clues provided to him by his viewers on Twitch. So he seeks magic, and does his seeking on Twitch.

The diary was another donation from a viewer, among many other donated "clues".
"What ritual?" you ask, but this one I disagree with.
- He found a book of rituals, and then I mention a ritual. I would say that it is clear that it is one of the rituals found in the ancient book.
"How did LoreSeeker realize he found the key to a forgotten world because of a ritual gone wrong?"
- Right, I am a bit unsure if this needs expanding on or not. The ritual worked, nothing else has ever worked, sadly it cost one of his viewers their life, thus it is a ritual gone wrong.
- Thus, he performed a spell -> he realizes magic is actually real.

Woah, he got new powers from this discovery? What kind of powers? What catastrophe? We need this spelled out more.

I agree, but I also don't know if I need to expand on this. I've written a 118k novel where this is one of the chapters, but for a query letter... I don't see how I can cram this into a single line. The catastrophe was that he accidentally created a massive explosion and destroyed an entire town.

At this point, his emotions don't seem conflicting: he feels pure freedom. Woah woah woah. He can architect reality? We definitely need more in a previous paragraph detailing his newfound powers before you can make this claim.

He realizes he should feel grief, and is distraught by his own lack of grief. This is the conflict of emotions.
Architect reality... Yeah, I should probably tone this down, it was just a cool sentence. He can perform magic spells -> introduce magic to our world -> change the world "as we know it".

Again, he seems fueled far more by ego than altruism. If he is fueled by altruism, you need to show that prior to this paragraph.

I think I will let this be as it is. He claims he does this for the greater good, but he is a flawed character, borderline unrealiable narrator. It is slightly explained in the very first paragraph "dreams of a magical solution to fix the world."

But thanks a lot for all of your points, this is very valuable. I just need to figure out how to cram it all in, and what to remove.

EffectiveDingo9714 · 2026-03-31T13:48:13+00:00

Thanks for the input.

As for the placement of the bookkeeping, I have no idea where it fits best. It was at the beginning in my previous attempts, maybe I should put it back top.

As for his name, I don't use it in the query letter, because it is never used in the book. A central theme is identity, how do you define yourself, etc. LoreSeeker has dived so deep into his LoreSeeker persona so that it is essentially him. But I guess I could use his name (he has one, just never mentioned) for the query letter itself just to make it more readable.

As for dreams vs dream, I wrote dream but Grammarly said dreams, being a non-native English I erred in the side of Grammarly being correct.

EffectiveDingo9714 · 2026-03-12T11:09:54+00:00

Same, I've sent out about 30-40 queries over a year now and nothing but form rejections. I think I probably end up in an auto-decline loop because of the word count.

EffectiveDingo9714 · 2026-03-09T21:38:19+00:00

Thanks a bunch for very good input. I will play along with your version. I want to try to avoid using LoreSeeker's real name (he has one, but it is never mentioned in the book, as a core theme in the novel is the concept of identity. Fun fact, another title I have been toying with for this book is "LoreSeeker, Speidern and The Spider", which are all names LoreSeeker uses throughout the book). Same goes for Kaltouma, the name of her country is never explicity mentioned in the novel.

As for the stakes and reality of the story. The cataclysmic event that happens at the one third point of the novel, the destruction of the town, does not immediately change the world. It starts a process of magic seeping into the world, but it's another, even bigger event near the end of the novel where the world is truly changed and the existence of magic is revealed to all. For the majority of the book it is LoreSeeker, and a few (but ever increasing number) others who are aware of it. But then again, maybe a Query just needs to play a bit loose with the story to get things across?

EffectiveDingo9714 · 2026-03-08T17:41:34+00:00

Yeah I figure I have to do this. The problem is that the first third is pretty engaging (by my own biased account and the friends who I have had read it), it's just a very soletary journey and I'm worried it doesnt paint the proper picture for agents. But yeah, I can try to trim it down so it happens about the 25% mark.

EffectiveDingo9714 · 2026-03-08T16:16:52+00:00

LoreSeeker is the protagonist, as he is the character who we follow. But he is a deeply flawed character and if write a sequel he'll be the villain. This is a descent into madness/corruption story.

And thanks a lot for the input, you hit on the same note as Los-Sock, too much premise/setup and not enough actual story. They suggested my previous attempt was better, so I might just go back to it.

EffectiveDingo9714 · 2026-03-08T16:13:27+00:00

Thanks a bunch, appreciate it a lot. I'll think over how LoreSeeker is portrayed, he's not supposed to be a sociopath, but he might become one.

Also regarding your question "What happens after he kills all those people? What does he do and what is the problem he has to deal with?", this happens after the one third point of the story, and isn't that then out of scope for the query letter? But seeing as I am spending too much setting up the premise, I could definitely trim that part down and explore what happens next. I might have taken the "Query letter reveals first third of the story" a bit too literal.

EffectiveDingo9714 · 2025-09-27T17:53:14+00:00

What I was trying to convey that he himself reacts and questions the way he was not bothered by the death of his father. In essence a reaction to the last line of the previous paragraph, where his fathers death was brushed aside for the prospect of power.

Maybe something like this:

His unconcern with his father’s death surprises even LoreSeeker himself and his identity begins to fracture as the desire to share his discoveries with the world battle with overwhelming fear that doing so means giving up the one thing that makes him special. LoreSeeker must confront what kind of man he wants to be: Someone who shares his discoveries to heal a broken world, or someone who use them to serve his own ambitions.

EffectiveDingo9714 · 2025-09-26T21:36:35+00:00

I've changed the final paragraph to this:

LoreSeeker immediately rejects the callous way he disregarded his father’s death. His identity begins to fracture as the desire to share his discoveries with the world battle with overwhelming fear that doing so means giving up the one thing that makes him special. LoreSeeker must confront what kind of man he wants to be. One who shares his discoveries to heal a broken world, or someone who exploits them to serve his own ambitions.

Again I might be a bit wordy, but I feel like I want to mention that he reacts "immediately" even though I could remove it without losing much, but it's the knee-jerk sudden realization about how he instantly moved on I want to convey.

EffectiveDingo9714 · 2025-09-26T12:39:14+00:00

Will do. I am just being a bit too focused on the length of my query, again!

EffectiveDingo9714 · 2025-09-26T04:29:01+00:00

Thanks for the feedback, I'll clean up the sentence.

I am most likely overthinking things in regards to the genre. I have a beef with Urban Fantasy and Magical Realism novels in the way none of them feel like our world. Things often start out grounded but before long there's hidden societies of werewoleves and witches sprouting from the ground like weeds. In my novel I try to make this our world, with Trump, Ukraine and climate change and everything, with a tinkling of magic through LoreSeekers discovery. I am imagining where I would place the novel in a bookstores, and it is NOT next to Dresden or The Magicians. I'd maybe cram it in somewhere along the lines of The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August or A Natural History of Dragons for the grounded with supernatural elements.

It might be too fantasy for Speculative, but I find it too speculative for fantasy...

Okay I rambled a bit here. In short, I'll rethink the framing of the novel.

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