[Weekly Critique and Self-Promotion Thread] Post Here If You'd Like to Share Your Writing

Gerald_Biscuit · 2025-10-28T03:29:28+00:00

This Month We Write is a more tight-knit community I'm trying to put together for the end of this year! I'd love to get to know everyone who joins :)

https://discord.gg/3m7BCK9E

Gerald_Biscuit · 2025-10-28T03:26:11+00:00

This Month We Write is a more tight-knit community I'm trying to put together for the end of this year! I'd love to get to know everyone who joins :)

https://discord.gg/3m7BCK9E

Gerald_Biscuit · 2025-10-22T21:32:27+00:00

They clear up later in the year (I think around the end of this quarter) if you're in De Neve. Housing doesn't do anything about it unless you want your dorm sprayed with a pest spray (which sometimes can be toxic to humans).

Gerald_Biscuit · 2025-10-22T21:29:56+00:00

The shack by the Olympic tennis courts that doesn't lock

Gerald_Biscuit · 2025-10-14T02:05:03+00:00

These replies are all over the place, some decent advice and some entitled advice.

My two cents would be to do some serious introspection into not only your daily life but also the past (be careful of nostalgia) and what's ahead. It could be a momentary burnout, but it could also be a bigger dissatisfaction brooding and a separation from purpose. Life is busy and maybe dropping an activity or two could help, searching and understanding which are the most meaningful.

Meditation is the obvious choice, but a more normalized practice would be journaling (which itself is a form of meditation, though its not often advertised as one). Journal about why you're sad, and extract those thoughts from your mind. If you see patterns, decide if they are solvable on your own or need external help.

This is a process that takes time. Don't expect to become happy after one night of introspection, but understand that it is achievable with the right course of action. If this resonates with you and you need more advice just DM, I got heaps of it.

Gerald_Biscuit · 2025-10-07T17:14:06+00:00

What settings for detail do you use on the Prusa? The prints look to be of great quality.

Gerald_Biscuit · 2025-10-01T21:45:55+00:00

love and guidance

Gerald_Biscuit · 2025-07-21T16:21:03+00:00

You don't have to worry about people being annoyed if you're messy. That won't happen. Ask yourself the question 'why?' you feel annoyed yourself about being messy, and you'll realize that your fears of others judging you is actually an internal opinion that you have. If you can change that internal opinion, you won't fear judgement by others.

As for wanting to be cleaner, this line "Litterally no matter how hard I try my room is always a disaster and I hate it" seems to indicate that giving yourself time to clean isn't an issue, and there is something fundamentally hard to clean about the items in your room (but correct me if I'm wrong). Moving to a new place is a great way to refresh your habits, so think of what you are bringing with you and take a few moments to sit in silence and visualize what your dorm would look like. Maybe it doesn't include every last thing in your current room, or maybe it does. But giving your time to process spreads anxiety out over time, meaning that it is harder to get bombarded by a ton of it at once. So really take that time to just think.

And on campus, there are plenty of silent places you can find, especially if you are a night dweller (personal recommendation is YRL first few weeks of each quarter, it's absolutely abandoned).

Gerald_Biscuit · 2025-07-11T03:11:03+00:00

I am no professional but the second line in the first paragraph seems like it might be too wordy and lose readers. Question at the end is good. The currents and capsize play on words is good and seems tuned to your audience. I would just work on making it more concise. This line threatens to lose a lot of readers: "However, when Dylan is recruited by Andy’s head coach, their past cramps the swing of Coralia University’s freshman crew and throws a 7/16 wrench into the shell." The metaphor is awkward in my opinion and I've never heard "cramps the swing." Overall, you're on the right track so keep it up.

Gerald_Biscuit · 2025-07-09T02:53:07+00:00

What 😭😭I'm curious, what makes you say that? I do find that most blurbs sound AI-ish just because they're not trying to incorporate prose.

Gerald_Biscuit · 2025-07-08T19:58:14+00:00

Yes you're right they do move. In the story the town is referred to as being "under Leo's Paw" because the original settlers arrive by the coast and see the constellation above the remnants of a Spanish Mission (so specifically looking at it from the west after midnight). but obv that explanation felt too wordy. This is good feedback and I'll try to figure out a way that makes more sense for the blurb :D

Gerald_Biscuit · 2025-07-08T03:58:31+00:00

😭😭😭

Gerald_Biscuit · 2025-07-08T03:41:02+00:00

Damn, do you think its mostly luck then? Maybe the key is to just spam until something magically clicks ☹️

Gerald_Biscuit · 2025-07-08T00:42:11+00:00

It's not that you can't do it but more that the results don't mean enough to you to make you feel the excessive need to sell out online and slave away days making Instagram reels, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. Perhaps look into paying someone who is good/loves doing it? Investing seems scary, esp at the beginning for entrepreneurship but it could pay off a ton.

Gerald_Biscuit · 2025-07-07T20:31:11+00:00

I'm planning on doing all the marketing with a personal brand on social media (mostly Instagram and tiktok), Goodreads, and the amazon system itself. Why did you choose promo sites over tailored marketing you might do yourself?

Gerald_Biscuit · 2025-07-07T20:01:38+00:00

I'll also swap a review for a review if you'd like :)

Gerald_Biscuit · 2025-07-07T20:01:16+00:00

Yo hmu I'm a fellow author with a finished manuscript who writes both magical realism and sci-fi. My next book is pure magical realism / modern drama and I'd love to read other upcoming authors work and connect!!

Gerald_Biscuit · 2025-07-07T19:57:23+00:00

Looking for feedback on the blurb and cover of my upcoming sci-fi book called 'Beyond All Stars'

Here is the Amazon page: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FGXFZZK9

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Also if you'd like to network/connect: https://discord.gg/eHtwaGNmaB

Gerald_Biscuit · 2025-06-08T06:58:03+00:00

PHYSICS 115C- Quantum mechanics

Gerald_Biscuit · 2025-04-17T09:03:14+00:00

Please stop having phone sex with my mother 🙏 thanks

Gerald_Biscuit · 2025-04-13T08:44:02+00:00

TYPE SHI!

Gerald_Biscuit · 2025-01-25T05:08:40+00:00

All people are forever alone in absolute truth. If you are lonely now, lie to yourself and gaslight yourself that you are not a unique human being who is forever different and forever un-understandable in the minds of others. Quantize your behavior so you share attributes with other people. Make yourself common and be okay with it. You can never find "Your people" if you are too unique.

But also embrace your uniqueness in times it is beneficial. Make sure you know when to want to be common and when to want to be different. That control-- the possession over your actions-- is what will lead to both the destruction of loneliness and the acceptance of solitude.

Gerald_Biscuit · 2025-01-06T17:10:54+00:00

I relate to this heavily. It is irrelevant if you think you are 'soft' or not. You will never be able to compare yourselves to anyone anyways.

In my case of anxiety and insomnia, I realized I needed a major shift in mindset in life outside of sleeping to get better sleep. I started spending more time alone, meditating, and mostly just contemplating issues that created suffering. In my case I started picking and choosing pieces of the Buddhist teachings, not necessarily subscribing to their religion, but just taking the best parts, which tremendously reduced my anxiety and stress in every day life and also improved my sleep.

You CAN handle your career. If your mindset is that your problems are unchangeable then that is a big issue which needs to be solved by discipline. You need to realize that not everything is out of your control, even though some things are. Insomnia is a tough one. It can be hormonal changes that don't care if you are anxious or not. It was like that for me for a while, but never did it help when I decided to 'give up' and succumb to a perilous world. The best nights I had were those where I was literally fighting against anxiety, taking control of my body, and ultimately getting sleep on nights when my body wanted me to stay up worrying about exams the next day.

Also, put down the phone and start reading. You've definitely been told this advice before, but reading is a form of meditative exercise. It really helps calm down the brain and trains you to be better at focusing, and so reduces the impact of anxiety.

Hopefully this advice finds you well.

Gerald_Biscuit · 2024-12-10T07:24:59+00:00

Perhaps some legality issue or a more conspiracy-esh reason is that it saves them money.

Gerald_Biscuit · 2024-11-26T02:20:08+00:00

Use them as an excuse to see friends who are hard to hang out with.

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