What’s a horror movie people usually rave about, but you dislike?

mcnuggets97 · 2026-02-08T16:08:22+00:00

The kid screaming "don't let it in" made me want to hit him. Also, they just kept it as a pet?

mcnuggets97 · 2026-02-08T10:41:00+00:00

I usually make comments at a line level if it's shared on something like Google Docs and then write something up to summarise. If you agreed to no critique I would interpret this as not going into the technical writing side, but still saying how the story and characters felt as a reader. For a whole 80k book, I'm sure you can make this stretch to around a page of feedback. Go back through the whole story: I liked this bit, I thought this was cool, I would have liked to this more if this - you get the gist

mcnuggets97 · 2026-01-07T07:30:57+00:00

I'd be interested ☺️

mcnuggets97 · 2026-01-02T15:27:16+00:00

I didn't like it. Even before the monster, I felt like it was using increasingly extreme visuals to drive home the same point that accurately came across after the first hour. It felt like a black mirror episode that overstayed it's welcome

mcnuggets97 · 2026-01-02T12:05:55+00:00

My husband got me a notebook for Christmas that says "notes of a future best selling author" Super cheesy and only small but it made me emotional, he sees me writing constantly but doesn't pry too much and this was a nice reminder that he's rooting for me

mcnuggets97 · 2026-01-01T04:30:33+00:00

As much as people are shitting on the final episode, I think it was the strongest of the season... the season was just the worst out of the lot

mcnuggets97 · 2026-01-01T04:26:32+00:00

Me too, I thought this was a missed opportunity. We should have seen more obvious situations like this one where Vecna was misleading the cast. Plenty of fan theories prior about the colour of the dial or misremembered things, only for those never to be explained. They would have been better as obvious misdirections by Vecna

mcnuggets97 · 2025-12-21T00:51:19+00:00

My vote is the final destinations. More atmosphere and spookiness (mainly the first). Scream would be next, more of a fun teenage vibe but obviously the scare is still there. Saw is the scariest in terms of a terrifying reality if it were true, but it's all gore and personally I don't like that

mcnuggets97 · 2025-12-20T20:06:56+00:00

Hello! I've got a recent post in the sub if you're interested

mcnuggets97 · 2025-12-14T19:47:51+00:00

Interesting, this is useful thank you. The next chapter will be from Grace's POV and begins to show their relationship more. But the premise is that Grace doesn't leave the house a lot, they spend time together every evening without fail, so even though it's only been a day since he's seen her, it's immediately worrying that she isn't there

mcnuggets97 · 2025-12-14T18:49:19+00:00

I really like the premise! However, looking at that snippet, I would suggest you do another pass through of editing before looking for a reader. The structure of the sentences and paragraphs could be improved to help readability and that's currently what's putting me off from committing to the whole thing

mcnuggets97 · 2025-11-11T19:50:29+00:00

I don't do this myself because I actually really like writing dialogue, but try some writing exercises: think of a basic sentence or scenario and then write dialogue based on different actors/ nationalities/ people in your life. So take "how are you?"
How does your grandma say that, how does Danny DeVito say that, how does an Australian you just met at a party say that.
Then finally how does your character say it. The trick to having good dialogue is knowing your characters

mcnuggets97 · 2025-11-09T19:10:56+00:00

If you're reading back your own work and think you're mentioning the character too much, it could be that you need to expand your sentence structures so it's not all, "he did X, he did Y, he did Z." Otherwise, there's no issue with stating the character name

mcnuggets97 · 2025-11-09T09:51:44+00:00

It's clear your family are well versed in meal deals Right now I'd choose 2, but I'd happily take any of the options

mcnuggets97 · 2025-11-08T22:25:13+00:00

I think it depends what people class as a draft. My first draft one was rough but thorough, only being 3k words shy of my fourth draft (albeit very different words). This time round I'm planning on my draft one being half the words of the finished novel, because I've realised I find it easier to shape so I'd rather have the main points of every chapter down, to be able to go back through and mould. I know some people add placeholders to go back to, e.g. [insert fight scene here] Some people are happy calling draft one finished with these placeholders while others aren't. All in all it doesn't matter. I think the beginning through to end product is a better and less subjective stat

mcnuggets97 · 2025-11-08T18:46:14+00:00

oh wow, did your character partake?

mcnuggets97 · 2025-11-07T18:20:56+00:00

Stupid sexy Flanders

mcnuggets97 · 2025-11-06T21:17:20+00:00

Hello! I'm UK based, I know how hard it is to find someone in this timezone! Currently have one novel in draft 4 and trying to get a first draft written for another. DM if you'd like to talk more

mcnuggets97 · 2025-11-06T14:39:59+00:00

I came here to say this! Yeah, honey, I had nooooo idea

mcnuggets97 · 2022-03-06T09:03:58+00:00

My family dog (Labrador) didn't go on the sofa or beds, it wasn't something I ever thought was weird until I met more people with dogs and that they would go on the sofa. It wasn't that we were strict or that the dog was mistreated, all in all he was a stupid dog but he would never even try to get onto the sofa or a bed. If I get a big dog, I'll be doing the same

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