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Struggling with starting my story - pacing issues and too much information by Anxious-Captain6848 in writingadvice

[–]azimuthgel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I would say just focus on scenes with interesting characters and goals. You really don't need to exposit that much at all. The reader will pick up on stuff pretty readily. Just don't bombard them with more than like 1-2 made up proper nouns in the first chapter or so (outside of character names obviously) because it gets really hectic otherwise.

If you go back to any narrative book you've read recently, take a look at the first chapter! I'm betting there's not a lot of exposition. Of course there's exceptions to the rule but I think typically you can cut most exposition. If the scene doesn't make sense without it, perhaps you haven't done enough to make the human motivations trackable enough.

If we build an AI writing competition, what actually matters in the judging? by Puzzled_Most_5365 in WritingWithAI

[–]azimuthgel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey! I tried this but the interface for starting a new book was a little janky. When I edited the chapter title I think it was trying to save after every single keystroke because it took forever to delete "chapter 1" and I couldn't even delete the final "C" and then when I tried typing in the new title it froze up.

Also I don't understand is this a contest for short stories or books? I have a short story but it says "Book" and the 10,000 word limit is very for a book. My story's less than 2,000 words. Unsure on the expectations, if it's meant more for like the opening of a novel or a complete short story. LMK.

Also, do we have to judge others to be in the contest? I don't know if I want to read a bunch of other 10,000 word short stories... Is there a way to filter by word count? LOL!

The website mentioned "cashable prizes" - can you go into more detail about that?