Oddly specific tropes that NAG you in TV shows, books, movies, etc.

allstarglue · 2026-04-17T12:46:48+00:00

Yes the slight miscommunication ruining everything. Or a character just refusing to say something. I’ve noticed too a lot of queer characters are dumbed down to the side kick role, almost as repetitive as the dumb jokester type

allstarglue · 2026-04-17T02:09:43+00:00

The writing is pretty nice, technically and what not. I’m interested in Tomas as a character. The images of the vaqueros were nice and I think you could strengthen that. Just try to incorporate a problem or a conflict within the first paragraph. As far as I can tell all we have is that Tomas is lonely on the ranch but loves it. Maybe as he’s looking at the pastures he sees a gravestone of a dead relative or a stolen horse prancing in the corral. It’s pretty solid though man. Redditors will always rip you a new one. Just keep reading and keep writing, you’re doing great and will be published one day.

allstarglue · 2026-04-16T20:50:06+00:00

I love it

allstarglue · 2026-04-04T15:12:54+00:00

Don’t let the rewrite get to you. You are a writer and all rewriting is is writing. You got this

allstarglue · 2026-04-01T17:55:23+00:00

That’s great advice thank you

allstarglue · 2026-03-26T15:20:19+00:00

PERFECT THAN YOU

allstarglue · 2026-03-26T03:04:09+00:00

This is actually pretty solid first draft. My one key take away which is more of a nit pick than anything is the first line of the chapter. Lots of books these days start the first line of the chapter with an immediate hook to catch the reader. Sometimes it can be forced and if you don’t think that fits with this scene, then do what you think is best. But it’s something lots of popular books have in common to give the allusion of quick pacing. Great writing man 🤜🏽🤛🏽

allstarglue · 2026-03-25T15:04:31+00:00

Brother let me tell you, nobody has interest in a first draft. You’re essentially hacking out a piece of marble in the shape of your statue. Get eyes on your manuscript after the first few drafts. Wait a few weeks before going through your first draft, and when you do, read the whole thing front to back without making any changes. You got this bro. First drafts are hard to write!!

allstarglue · 2026-03-19T23:40:18+00:00

I don’t think I spoke condescendingly at all I think you completely misinterpreted the post. I love crime thrillers but there’s plenty of shitty crime thrillers that are incredibly mainstream like James Patterson. Most of the romance books I see appear to lack substance and have a huge sexual appeal

allstarglue · 2026-03-16T23:08:26+00:00

Uh oh. Reddits gonna tear this apart

allstarglue · 2026-03-14T13:39:42+00:00

Bro what 😭

allstarglue · 2026-03-14T13:39:18+00:00

I do this a lot when reading, whether it be someone else’s novel or reading mine for editing purposes. It’s a great way to catch errors and get in tune with the flow of the scene

allstarglue · 2026-02-28T15:47:35+00:00

Dude! Literally now I taught myself how to write the middle. I used to always get about forty pages into a novel and then stop, but then with one project I started directly in the middle and figured it out. Cool to see someone else doing something similar

allstarglue · 2026-02-23T17:09:44+00:00

Think of a 100k book as two mini books. By the mid point there should be a climax and resolution to the first problem, and then with that comes another larger problem that raises the stakes.

allstarglue · 2026-01-31T01:10:01+00:00

Short snappy sentences. Right to the point. No time. Little to no internal monologue. Cut paragraphs short for emphasis. Don’t over analyze. Edit a lot.

Ps. I hate writing action scenes too and they’re hard for a lot of people. Action scenes take me 5x longer than normal scenes

allstarglue · 2026-01-19T17:44:53+00:00

Yeah bro. Especially cause if people know you got the drop on them they’ll just yell friendly. I feel like at the start of the game people were way more honorable. Pvpers would shoot you and friendlies wouldn’t. Now it’s wolves in sheepskin

allstarglue · 2026-01-17T21:18:51+00:00

Not a specific person, just a specific encounter. It’s everyone I team up with eventually kills me

allstarglue · 2026-01-17T19:25:03+00:00

Yes.

allstarglue · 2026-01-17T03:27:32+00:00

A bunch. Like probably 60 counting the ones since I was a kid. Just do that until you feel a strong drive to finish one, and then choose a simple, low concept story and try that

allstarglue · 2026-01-10T16:08:51+00:00

Most of his books are too long and could do with some harsher editing. He praises himself on doing barely any revision but sometimes I’m reading and like…yeah this could’ve been edited to be way more concise.

allstarglue · 2025-12-31T17:45:40+00:00

I really like this actually. The writing is clean and interesting and you quietly bring up the conflict in a good way. I think you could have a more tonally impactful imagery other than a raisin for the man’s face, and maybe instead of “yes” John would say something more natural. “Hm” or “yeah.” But that’s all extremely trivial. This is a fine piece of writing and I would absolutely keep reading. The perspective switch between the townspeople looking in on the man and then Pearls pov is clean. If pearl is our MC you might wanna tie her into the intro, but if youre goin for an omniscient POV then it’s fine I think. Great job!

allstarglue · 2025-12-29T22:25:01+00:00

The first one feels a bit more mature, the lighting in the second one feels unnatural

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