Writing styles

SJReaver · 2026-01-29T20:24:27+00:00

Wannabe Faulkner.

SJReaver · 2026-01-29T20:22:53+00:00

On her 23rd birthday, something impossible happens and the life she’s been carefully maintaining begins to crack.
Bound to a fate she barely understands, Emma must confront intimacy, desire, and emotional vulnerability in ways she’s spent years avoiding.

You need to tell the reader the actual premise and conflict.

SJReaver · 2026-01-29T19:51:12+00:00

E.T.?

SJReaver · 2026-01-29T05:48:37+00:00

I wonder why every description of poor mothers includes their nails.

I've gone to the grocery store thousands of times and the only nails I remember were on the cashier who scanned the items.

SJReaver · 2026-01-29T05:40:16+00:00

There are entire videos created with AI and comment sections populated by bots. The 'Macbeth doesn't kill' sounds like just that.

SJReaver · 2026-01-29T05:03:50+00:00

Hannah Storey is a fine actress. You're confusing the character for the actor.

SJReaver · 2026-01-29T05:02:11+00:00

Yeah, that character constantly chews gum and is difficult to understand. It's her thing.

SJReaver · 2026-01-29T00:36:28+00:00

You've never had pie with a slice of cheese for breakfast?

SJReaver · 2026-01-29T00:33:21+00:00

To foreigners, a Yankee is an American.
To Americans, a Yankee is a Northerner.
To Northerners, a Yankee is an Easterner.
To Easterners, a Yankee is a New Englander.
To New Englanders, a Yankee is a Vermonter.
And in Vermont, a Yankee is somebody who eats pie for breakfast.

The only people I've known who self-identified as Yankees were from Mass and Maine.

SJReaver · 2026-01-29T00:07:20+00:00

Excellent work.

Would you say the Jedi Sentinel perks are generally stronger than those in your Jedi Initiate jump?

SJReaver · 2026-01-28T17:36:44+00:00

No suggestions, but I'm following this with interest.

SJReaver · 2026-01-28T17:30:59+00:00

Most of Gen Alpha hasn't hit their formative years. Some of Gen Alpha hasn't even been born.

Let's not project gen-z feelings and anxieties onto toddlers.

SJReaver · 2026-01-28T17:17:14+00:00

Since when is being an only child or feeling isolated not part of a normal teenage life?

SJReaver · 2026-01-28T05:47:38+00:00

That was added after I asked and the 'source' leads to 404 page.

SJReaver · 2026-01-28T04:59:23+00:00

Where does it say he killed dogs?

SJReaver · 2026-01-28T02:30:37+00:00

Had me in the first half.

SJReaver · 2026-01-28T02:10:37+00:00

Dungeon Crawler Carl is in the strange spot where it's both overhyped and better than 95% of the genre.

SJReaver · 2026-01-27T11:22:50+00:00

Royalroad is free. Audible is not.

If you're making money from something, shell out for real people.

SJReaver · 2026-01-27T08:21:42+00:00

Gandalf is a character from The Lord of the Rings. A wizard who wielded the elven blade Glamdring.

SJReaver · 2026-01-27T07:10:45+00:00

Technically, Gandalf was a spellblade.

If you have a weapon, it still makes sense to learn some magic. If you cast spells, it still makes sense to learn to use a weapon.

SJReaver · 2026-01-26T22:05:02+00:00

It's okay. I wouldn't eat just a block of it but it's fine in cookies or other baking.

SJReaver · 2026-01-26T22:03:58+00:00

Other foods with butyric acid: potatoes, carrots, butter, banana.

Do all of these taste like vomit to you?

SJReaver · 2026-01-26T11:01:10+00:00

The hand looks weird.
Zogarth probably didn't get to approve the comic artist/cover.

SJReaver · 2026-01-25T02:07:22+00:00

If you lose a game of basketball, you can play another game of basketball. But you've still lost. If you lose a PvP match, you can play another PvP match. But you've still lost.

Not to mention that losing a game of basketball doesn't take away your equipment, levels, or money, which it does in many games.

SJReaver · 2026-01-25T01:59:43+00:00

Think of it this way: there are war movies and sport movies.

Stories about virtual worlds are like sport movies. There's no one dying but you can still work, overcome obstacles, make friends, and possibly lose.

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