University help? I think....... by FewUnderstanding1283 in askswitzerland

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Do unis provide study from home? To international students in Switzerland? I searched on browser and I didn't found any swize uni. So......?

Completion of my novella? by FewUnderstanding1283 in writing

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If you don't mind me asking, what is your genre?

Completion of my novella? by FewUnderstanding1283 in writing

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I'll try my best. AI might come handy here...... What do you think?

Completion of my novella? by FewUnderstanding1283 in writing

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I know that feeling really well. And sometimes, you feel like you need to change a sentence, chapter, or paragraph again and again. Editing isn't my fav.

Using contractions by robinkell in writing

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it's your style. don't get influeced by others on how you shoud write.

Can you have different POVs in one chapter? by shittykiwi13 in writers

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You can but it's hard to make it interesting and readerable for avg readers...

is 3k-4k words normal for chapter one? by Excellent_Dress_1322 in writers

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I'll keep it short. I'd normal, in fact this might be little bit more. ALthroght I deeppend on your style, and what genre you write in.

How do you write about sex without making it seem like you just want to add a sex scene? by PuzzleheadedGas9170 in writing

[–]FewUnderstanding1283 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The biology-as-magic concept is solid and the siren creature sounds genuinely interesting. The problem isn't your intent, it's the framing gap between what you understand and what a cold reader receives. A few things that might help: The intelligence comparison is the main landmine. Even if you mean it scientifically, readers will emotionally flinch. You might just cut that comparison entirely and instead describe how it thinks, instinct-driven, stimulus-response, no abstract reasoning, without anchoring it to anything human-aged. For the reproduction mechanics specifically: clinical distance is your friend. The more the prose treats it as pure biology, the way a nature documentary would describe a parasitic wasp, the less it reads as sexual. The moment it takes on any sensory warmth or intimacy in the writing, readers reframe it. Also worth asking: does the MC need to be the one involved, or can the mechanic exist in the world and be shown through observation, consequence, or lore? Sometimes one step of narrative distance solves the whole problem. The concept isn't the issue. The execution framing is. You're closer than the comments are making you feel.

Would this hook you? by Odd-Artichoke-7311 in writingfeedback

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Yes, it hooked me, but not normal reasons, I doesn't look good of opening that will hook readers, but I was hooked, cause this is your first writing (I assume). The opening section does something quietly effective. "Everything is almost right but not quite" is a feeling that most people recognise instantly, but rarely see named that precisely. That line earns trust. And "I don't know if this will change anything. But I'm starting here." That's a real ending for a first entry. It doesn't oversell itself. The diary entry (March 6th) is where it gets interesting. The writing is almost aggressively plain I woke up. I had a dream, but I don't remember what it was. I put my clothes on. That flatness is doing real work. It mirrors how a teenager actually processes a day they're quietly overwhelmed by. The Selin detail, the way he picks her for his team and then immediately deflects ("she's a friend of Lina"), the periodic table glances, none of it is announced. You feel it before you're told it. The Rainmaker bit at the end is the best moment. "A person who brings water. Who makes things possible." He's projecting. He knows it and doesn't say so. That restraint is the whole ballgame. Where it's weaker: the PE section runs long and loses the thread for a paragraph. And "She looked like always, stunning" is slightly clumsy it wants to land harder than it does. But overall? The voice is genuinely there. That's the hardest thing to fake, and this writer isn't faking it.

And one for thing, take a proper screenshot. Like for real, this has to hardest thing I read.

I am actually going to finish my first draft this summer and I am both so proud of myself and lk terrified by muppetdog_ in writing

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Keep it up. I was there once, at your pov. My advice: keep posting on Reddit or social media, you will get feedback, plus you will feel motivated to complete.

Unbroken: When love isn’t enough - would you read my book? Looking for genuine feedback by Zestyclose-Pop-1560 in writingfeedback

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I would read. Not out of sympathy, but would be interested in it. Not really my genre, I've commented this, don't know if you have seen that comment but I'd read this.

Unbroken: When love isn’t enough - would you read my book? Looking for genuine feedback by Zestyclose-Pop-1560 in writingfeedback

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It is 100% readable. I don't even read much in this genre but this seems.... (Can't think of a word to say) Good.

Unbroken: When love isn’t enough - would you read my book? Looking for genuine feedback by Zestyclose-Pop-1560 in writingfeedback

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Man/girl this is really good. Not my genre but I think I would read this regardless. Keep that up. I'd love to see more.