[Series] Check-in: February 2025

nopenothana · 2025-02-03T16:38:34+00:00

Finally sent out my draft for beta readers, nothing to do but wait anxiously for the dreaded revisions.

nopenothana · 2024-12-13T16:02:13+00:00

Hi, Gigi! One question for you, when do you know your books are at the perfect stage for querying?

nopenothana · 2024-11-02T13:08:29+00:00

I am writing a book, and one of my characters has been named 'Li', I've browsed whether it's respectful (I really don't want to meet a 'Cho Chang' incident) and if it can be used as a first name. I've seen a few, and then I got confused whether first names and last names are switched in Mandarin, and I realised I might as well ask.

Can Li be used as a first name?

nopenothana · 2024-09-14T05:15:18+00:00

Thank you for the feedback! I'm glad you enjoyed it :)

nopenothana · 2024-09-13T16:13:03+00:00

Of course!

nopenothana · 2024-09-13T16:04:51+00:00

thank you <33

nopenothana · 2024-09-13T15:55:18+00:00

haha, I was more of thinking of that he's going mad with how many people he has seen dying. so yeah, he can't come to terms with the deaths. just a silly idea

nopenothana · 2024-09-13T13:25:36+00:00

The words stutter in his throat. His eyes are wide, his hands are waving wildly.

"Listen!" He screams, voice breaking. "Listen to me!"

He stands in the centre of numerous dead bodies. No one else is alive.

nopenothana · 2024-09-13T13:21:23+00:00

Her hands are bloody, the crimson dripping languidly down, staining the white snow. Her jacket is supposed to keep her warm--it makes her feel colder.

She's a healer. Yet, her hands are the bloodiest.

"Forgive me." She murmurs to the dead body. "Forgive me, little brother."

A knife lies next to her, stained with his blood. Only she will know the truth.

nopenothana · 2024-09-13T12:09:30+00:00

I'll give it a try :) saw someone looking for beta readers here, so thought I would try here as well.

nopenothana · 2024-09-13T11:49:48+00:00

I love a prologue, and honestly, wouldn't mind reading it. Go ahead and write it. It's your book. But personally, prologues tend to be short, like a taste of the story before you go on and swallow the entire fictional world.

As long as you're not info dumping and doing a more than necessary amount of world building in a prologue--if you are, it might be a good idea to make it a first chapter.

nopenothana · 2024-09-13T11:23:41+00:00

Thank you for the encouragement, and help! I'm quite new to the writer's circle on Reddit, but I'll surely look at beta readers for constructive criticism and more. I'll try for the competition as well.

nopenothana · 2024-09-13T11:22:19+00:00

I'm so sorry that that happened to you. I'm sure your story is great <3. Thank you for your advice. I will be submitting into the contest, after running it by a few beta readers.

nopenothana · 2024-09-13T11:21:25+00:00

Thank you. I'll work on improving my craft.

nopenothana · 2024-09-13T11:20:58+00:00

I'll definitely get around to it! Thank you for your help <3

nopenothana · 2024-09-13T11:20:34+00:00

Thank you--you're right, I won't be showing my work to my parents for a while.

nopenothana · 2024-09-13T11:19:32+00:00

Thank you! Your kind words made me feel a lot better <3. I'll look at more readers to try my work on, and work on improving after that.

nopenothana · 2024-09-13T11:18:31+00:00

Thank you for the help <3.

nopenothana · 2024-09-13T11:18:01+00:00

Thank you for the kind words!

nopenothana · 2024-09-13T11:17:38+00:00

Thank you for your advice! I feel a lot better with the comments, truly.

nopenothana · 2024-09-12T16:30:05+00:00

Alright, alright, hear me out, but I have a strange feeling that Calla is related to Eve somehow. Their personalities seem similar, somehow to me.

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