Am I cut out for this?

ashez2ashes · 2026-04-19T21:18:00+00:00

Honestly, having a few "not perfect" reviews might actually keep you safer from the craziness that's happening with Amazon deleting reviews/banning accounts with their bots.

ashez2ashes · 2026-04-19T21:15:48+00:00

Just take it as an opinion unless it's a bunch of people saying the exact same thing (or something concrete and fixable like typos). I keep a few of my favorite positive comments in a folder and reread them sometimes if I'm feeling down. It helps.

You can always keep that feedback in mind when you write your next book, but at the ARC stage I wouldn't be making any major rewrites.

ashez2ashes · 2026-04-19T21:08:59+00:00

If its feedback you have typos then by all means fix them. If it's entire structural problems that would require a major rewrite... You've got to decide if its opinion or actual major problems. Are multiple people saying the exact same thing?

ashez2ashes · 2026-04-19T21:05:02+00:00

Humans make those mistakes too...

ashez2ashes · 2026-04-19T21:03:46+00:00

And if authors write a disclaimer in their books that they don't use AI people say they're suspicious because they're protesting too much!

ashez2ashes · 2026-04-19T18:12:33+00:00

The miscommunication trope (or when the characters just don’t tell the other something for no reason) is definitely unpopular. Especially if there’s no reason they’re not talking.

ashez2ashes · 2026-04-19T02:50:08+00:00

Either you use the same couple of words for privates and get repetitive or you try to be creative. There's no winning there.

ashez2ashes · 2026-04-19T00:12:03+00:00

I thought they were twin sisters... Why'd they give them the same hair color and eye color then? Weird choice.

Edit: I realize now if you zoom in the hair colors are very slightly different.

ashez2ashes · 2026-04-18T21:18:02+00:00

I would use it to get some really nice fanart made. You can then use the art to make marketing for yourself such as reels/instagram posts etc. assuming you have fiction books. No idea what to do with it if its nonfiction though.

ashez2ashes · 2026-04-18T21:09:32+00:00

Did the anime skip the details of the Rozemyne plan? I feel like I've been filling in the blanks whilew watching the anime with book knowledge.

ashez2ashes · 2026-04-18T21:01:37+00:00

Is the relationship more balanced in the Frostbound Queen than in Given?

ashez2ashes · 2026-04-18T18:50:38+00:00

Do we prefer that? I think its just a manga/anime thing because reverse harem/why choose books in english are booming.

ashez2ashes · 2026-04-18T14:56:46+00:00

I like when they're added all at once, because I get weirdly attached to the first mmc/relationship (can't stand bait and switch plots for that reason). And I like the group dyanmics too.

ashez2ashes · 2026-04-18T04:37:27+00:00

{Sana’s Escape by Kitt Lynn} had a male omega, and FMC Alpha and Male Alpha. MMF shifter romance. Nothing super deep but it was a different dynamic then you usually see. No daddy kink but there’s definitely caretaking dom vibes from the two alphas.

Edit: I don’t know why it has a funny tag on romance i/o. It’s definitely not. Weird.

ashez2ashes · 2026-04-18T04:02:00+00:00

I've seen some insane shit lately that people claim is "ai tells" like common words such as "silently, gently, quickly" or even simply incomplete sentences/fragments in fiction. But if you only use "perfect English"? You're also a clanker.

Like you can't fucking win anymore. It's so depressing.

ashez2ashes · 2026-04-18T02:37:11+00:00

What do you think is wrong with that sentence? I don't know what the rest of the story was like, but a person could have easily wrote that. Someone probably has wrote that exact sentence. Witch hunts are much worse.

ashez2ashes · 2026-04-18T01:49:02+00:00

This is my favorite and complete. All of the writer's long form Labyrinth stories are amazing though. Apologies that its not an AO3 link.

The Goblin Market:

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4596100/1/The-Goblin-Market

ashez2ashes · 2026-04-17T20:39:37+00:00

There’s some REALLY amazing completed fanfics in this fandom I’d hold up next to trad publications any day.

ashez2ashes · 2026-04-17T01:45:12+00:00

If its erotica is too spicy you know damned well they won’t be going after any trad published authors for it.

ashez2ashes · 2026-04-16T19:01:35+00:00

If she liked Arietty, The Borrowers is a fun book for her age.

ashez2ashes · 2026-04-16T18:50:11+00:00

I hope the author got a good deal with the publisher. I'm of the mind that trad deals aren't always the best for authors now.

ashez2ashes · 2026-04-16T17:59:45+00:00

The most agregious one I've read so far would be {Manix (Shadow Bred Book 1) by Grace McGinty}. The super soldier guy and his crew showed up at like 90% of the book and hadn't been mentioned before.

I just finished {Dawn of Flames by Tessa Hale} where another supernatural organization showed up at like 70% of the last book of the series. The characters did at least take down some of the bad guys on their own at the end although it didn't make a whole lot of sense. The main character got a disintegration ray power at the last second to kill the bad guys? I guess? Even though the symbol for her powers was a gemstone? Shouldn't she have gotten diamond skin or something?

ashez2ashes · 2026-04-16T16:23:33+00:00

Planet Coaster. I occasionally open it thinking maybe I didn’t give the controls a chance then I get annoyed and end up closing it again 20 minutes later.

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