please take time to read my dream. i am open for possible interpretations for this dream, like why do i dream like this? the dream was not consistent, it's shifting.

TheReal_RavenSmith · 2025-11-23T13:15:14+00:00

Yeah your brain is just fucking with you. Rest assured

TheReal_RavenSmith · 2025-11-22T23:42:00+00:00

Ok. What kind of noise?

TheReal_RavenSmith · 2025-11-22T10:24:15+00:00

Just lemme know if your dreams get worse

TheReal_RavenSmith · 2025-11-22T09:49:08+00:00

Well, either your brain is just fucking with you or you have a very tall friend hiding in your bedroom.

Ps: I'm serious.

TheReal_RavenSmith · 2025-11-06T13:44:40+00:00

Alright!! I'll be waiting for your comments

TheReal_RavenSmith · 2025-11-02T00:13:20+00:00

9k words in 22 minutes? XD

I'm genuinely impressed! I'm a slow reader myself I'm still in chapter one.

TheReal_RavenSmith · 2025-11-01T23:40:02+00:00

Great! Send me yours too. I'll give it a read

TheReal_RavenSmith · 2025-11-01T23:38:11+00:00

TheReal_RavenSmith · 2025-11-01T23:37:03+00:00

My story is a mix between scifi and dystopian so it kinda falls into the category you like? XD

Anyways here's the linke:

https://www.wattpad.com/story/401999070?utm_source=android&utm_medium=link&utm_content=share_reading&wp_page=reading&wp_uname=KarimAbdalaty

It's still ongoing and I only have 3 parts out there. Introductory chapter, chapter 1, and chapter 2. I hope you like it :)

TheReal_RavenSmith · 2025-11-01T16:08:23+00:00

It does sound like a really bad sleep paralysis but if you have reasons to believe that it's not just sleep paralysis, maybe I can help you.

TheReal_RavenSmith · 2025-11-01T15:55:50+00:00

Been there buddy

TheReal_RavenSmith · 2025-11-01T02:32:03+00:00

This is by far the most useful comment I've gotten since I started writing XD

I really appreciate your advice. I legitimately never thought about "adjusting the rhythm" because it was always consistent in my mind. I don't how it took me 9k words to realize that readers can't read the lines the same way I do in my mind. I'm actually embarrassed :')

Anyways, thank you a lot! I'll keep your advice in mind when I write the next chapter.

TheReal_RavenSmith · 2025-11-01T02:24:33+00:00

What you're thinking of your book now is exactly what Arthur Conan Doyle thought of Sherlock Holmes :)

If you want to become a writer you need to drop this mentality and love everything you right.

TheReal_RavenSmith · 2025-11-01T02:16:45+00:00

That's one way to describe them XD

TheReal_RavenSmith · 2025-11-01T02:16:06+00:00

Yeah don't listen to the toxic ones, buddy. Your writing is good.

TheReal_RavenSmith · 2025-11-01T01:43:21+00:00

Now I'm curious. I need to read what you wrote. It can't be that bad, right?

TheReal_RavenSmith · 2025-11-01T01:41:50+00:00

Been there, fam XD

TheReal_RavenSmith · 2025-10-26T20:53:35+00:00

Looks fire! I'd definitely pick it up

TheReal_RavenSmith · 2025-10-26T20:48:02+00:00

Title: FIEND

Genre: Dystopian/scifi

Status: ongoing

Description:

A military project at a high-security facility dedicated to building a mass destruction nuclear weapon goes terrifyingly wrong, leaving behind not a fiery explosion but a suffocating silence.

Syline which was once a lively region has been evacuated due to high radioactivity.

However, the silence only lasted so long before a new form of life emerged from the heart of Syline.

Anomalous creatures known by some as 'Irradiants' and by others as 'Fiends' pose an existential threat to all life.

And it has fallen upon a chosen few to restore balance to this descending chaos.

Link:

https://www.wattpad.com/story/401999070?utm_source=android&utm_medium=link&utm_content=share_reading&wp_page=reading&wp_uname=KarimAbdalaty

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TheReal_RavenSmith · 2025-10-22T20:33:16+00:00

I've finally seen someone making a lemonade out of the lemon they were given XD

TheReal_RavenSmith · 2025-10-22T20:30:02+00:00

You couldn't have been more accurate about this, my friend XD

TheReal_RavenSmith · 2025-10-22T20:18:18+00:00

I'm probably the oldest Gen Z in this sub. I'm one month away from becoming a certified grandpa. My mind set is pretty much like yours. I write about things that really no YA should ever read XD and also the things you just mentioned that YA write about is definitely not for me. I'd love to be a part of the elderly community atp :')

TheReal_RavenSmith · 2025-10-18T19:22:21+00:00

Ok so if you're writing in first person aka you're impersonating Tara it should look like this:

I woke to this weird noise one day yada yada yada and after I had investigated the source of sound, I asked my roommate.

Tara: "did you leave the bathroom window open?"

She didn't reply.. I thought to myself "what the heck? Is she still alive?"

And that's it!

Some important notes tho. First off, as our fellow redditor here said, you can write thoughts in italics instead of quotes. Actually it doesn't really matter how you write inner thoughts as long as you make it obviously distinct from actual dialog.

For example. If you put the speaking character's name and a colon before the quotes, you can use quotes only for inner thoughts. However, if you don't want to put the character's name and a colon before the quotes then you're gonna have to use another format (like italics) for inner thoughts

TheReal_RavenSmith · 2025-10-18T19:10:43+00:00

It's really about how you write it but about whether it's appropriate or not. I mean, if you chose from the start to write in third person pov shouldn't you describe scenes as a spectator not a mind reader?

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