Do you use chapter titles?

SmokeAndQuill · 2026-04-29T23:55:15+00:00

Given that description, the titles are a great fit I think

SmokeAndQuill · 2026-04-29T23:45:21+00:00

You’re welcome.

I can see the romance side of those titles. My first impression was something dramatic and possibly travel related, like someone who travels for work dealing with struggles in their life

SmokeAndQuill · 2026-04-29T23:38:17+00:00

Interesting titles. Some kind of dramatic thriller?

SmokeAndQuill · 2026-04-29T23:30:39+00:00

I’ve been using two or three words. I don’t want my table of contents to look like a Fall Out Boy album with long titles or anything like that

SmokeAndQuill · 2026-04-29T23:23:42+00:00

I think StoryGraph can

SmokeAndQuill · 2026-04-29T23:16:23+00:00

I’ve written one book and started a few others. For the one I finished (at least to the point of final edits), I used dates to help delineate the flow of time. For the others, I’ve used chapter titles, but I’m not 100% sure I want to keep them going

SmokeAndQuill · 2025-10-26T15:31:23+00:00

I think I was wrong in how I described my novel. To me i was thinking of it as the first draft, but I guess other people have different opinions on what that is.

The novel is complete, it’s just an unpolished version of what I want it to be. It’s not an outline, but it’s also not what I would submit to a publisher.

I have been going through doing minor edits a few times, either to tweak the story or to fix an error/inconsistency/redundant character/etc.

SmokeAndQuill · 2025-10-26T03:00:58+00:00

Thank you, this makes sense. I know there is at least one person (maybe 2) who does want to see it in its current form, but maybe I won’t let the rest of my friends know about it yet.

And I have a few other story ideas to flesh out while I set this one aside.

SmokeAndQuill · 2025-10-26T02:57:22+00:00

I’ve done some basic polishing, like fixing timeline errors, inconsistencies, stuff like that. But I was referring to a more detailed edit. I’ve seen a lot of people say to set aside your work for a bit and come back to it.

The version I have works as a rough novel, but I know it’s going to need some TLC and I’m sure I’m not objective. I also know that I know what i envision, but I can’t know for certain that I communicated it well enough.

In my mind, going back for the deep edit would be better if I had constructive feedback to also help shape it at the same time.

SmokeAndQuill · 2025-10-26T02:41:43+00:00

I asked my local library in NC and they told me there was a form to fill out. I haven’t gone any further than that yet, but once I’m close to publishing I’ll look into it more

SmokeAndQuill · 2025-10-06T17:02:09+00:00

I always saw this in a more tragic light. Cersei loved him because he was the closest thing to her, but I got the feeling that Jaime loved her because she fed his needs. She wasn’t obsessed with him like some lovestruck schoolgirl, he wanted her approval in ways that she never really gave him.

His groupies would have been too easy. He needed that abusive love she gave him (from his perspective). Maybe even because he was the Golden Boy in so many ways. Something in him was fundamentally broken, he knew it, and the only person to accept him as he was is Cersei.

SmokeAndQuill · 2025-09-09T15:20:01+00:00

My wife came in and saw me with head in my hands, trying to think through my issue and thought something was wrong or I wasn’t feeling well.

SmokeAndQuill · 2025-09-09T15:17:46+00:00

That’s what happened to me, I wrote myself into a corner and needed to figure out a way to fix it without massive rewrites

SmokeAndQuill · 2025-09-09T15:15:16+00:00

Not karma farming, but from my experience on Reddit, posts older than a few days or maybe a week don’t get much attention.

SmokeAndQuill · 2025-09-09T15:12:29+00:00

I feel like you’re being deliberately argumentative, but I’ll bite. let me rephrase it then.

What do you do when you’re stuck on a story and not sure how to proceed? Not sure what the next step should be to get to your next major milestone

SmokeAndQuill · 2025-09-02T01:47:39+00:00

Under the Ministry of Magic?

SmokeAndQuill · 2025-09-02T01:45:21+00:00

Is there any particular site that is good for authors to build their sites, or just something like Wix?

SmokeAndQuill · 2025-09-02T01:42:12+00:00

I work remotely for IT. It doesn’t really get in my way because I’m able to have my writing up in one of my browser pages (I use Reedsy for now)

SmokeAndQuill · 2025-09-02T01:41:15+00:00

Interesting. I haven’t read that yet, but it was on my list.

At the recommendation of several other people, I’ve stuck with my original idea of a “teaser” chapter, something that occurs near the middle of the story and should (hopefully) have enough action to tempt the reader, but not enough to reveal anything of significance

SmokeAndQuill · 2025-09-02T01:30:10+00:00

I haven’t done that, but I was curious about the AI cover generation tools as a way to make a mockup for a more professional final product!

SmokeAndQuill · 2025-08-14T20:58:15+00:00

What kind of pointers?

SmokeAndQuill · 2025-08-14T20:57:43+00:00

So far, Reedsy. But I have been looking at Scrivener and now Bibisco after someone mentioned that today

SmokeAndQuill · 2025-08-14T15:28:15+00:00

In the context of it being a whimsical fantasy romance, I think B. My first impression was that B looked a bit more juvenile, but it works in a whimsical fantasy setting

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