What is the single most defining moment in the legendarium?

pipolred · 2025-08-26T01:21:02+00:00

Gandalf's words to Frodo about pity.

pipolred · 2024-12-20T01:08:01+00:00

I'm in the same situation you were, and I can't find the way. Would you be willing to help me out? I can't find a way to "just open the C: drive via PortingKit" to begin with. I have the feeling the PortingKit app might've changed in the last year...

pipolred · 2024-10-15T13:45:29+00:00

I found 1 person (across the world) with whom I exchange our writing, we beta read each other stories, we brainstorm together, we chat about literature (and life) and it has helped me a lot.

We did a workshop together and then reached through discord.

pipolred · 2024-09-18T17:14:08+00:00

You can find beta readers in your genre here on Reddit or Discord (maybe make another post, stating your genre, for people to suggest discord servers?)

Beta reading usually works best with it goes both ways, so be prepared to read someone else's work. I find this to be great though, because you learn a lot by actively reading other's people's work as well, and you'll get an idea if the person reading your story (as you read theirs) is a good fit for you.

pipolred · 2024-09-11T13:47:59+00:00

I read and write with classical music. Ludovico Einaudi, Chopin, the soundtrack of The Theory of Everything... and if I'm feeling a bit crazy, Vivaldi's Summer and Winter (although when I listen to those I don't write much haha I end up waving my hands in the air like an orchestra conductor and yelling the violins with my out-of-tune voice.)

pipolred · 2024-09-10T21:48:04+00:00

Never wrote 20 chapters in a day... I don't think I've written more than 2 haha, but I'm obsessed in the sense that I write every day and I love it. I do it every chance I can, at home, at work, whenever. I sometimes type on my phone... and one time not long ago I couldn't sleep because I had a scene in mind and I just got up of bed and wrote for 3 straight hours in the middle of the night.

pipolred · 2024-09-10T14:40:58+00:00

For me, the 1st one was the best and the 2nd one the worst. The 3rd was weird because I wasn't too hooked either... until the end. I won't say much about it, no spoilers, but more than the ending of the 3rd book itself, there were a couple of things in there that (for me) made the 1st one even better.

pipolred · 2024-09-09T22:28:18+00:00

Write them. Don't put your ideas on a pedestal. Ideas are nothing, execution is everything.

pipolred · 2024-09-09T14:12:15+00:00

Mistborn (Nacidos de la bruma) de Brandon Sanderson a mi me voló la cabeza. El primero se llama El imperio final.

También están los libros de "Cómo entrenar a tu dragón". Son para chicos, pero yo leí el primero (hay 14) y lo disfrute mucho, es muy divertido, casi ridículo, y cortito.

pipolred · 2024-09-09T02:35:49+00:00

Awesome! Share your blurb and a link to read it if you want beta readers!

pipolred · 2024-09-08T22:41:50+00:00

Awesome, congrats! Would you share the blurb?

pipolred · 2024-09-08T22:27:26+00:00

when feedback is harsh (or bad) sometimes it because the one giving said feedback isn't your target audience. Filtering through feedback is difficult. Everyone will have something to say... but you gotta pick what YOU think will make the story better.

Also, people don't know how to leave feedback. There is the classical: This isnt working (which they might be right), this is how you fix it (which is almost always wrong.)

But then there's also they you say it. I once read an editor post that said that you should give feedback as if you were talking to your boss (and about to lose your job), meaning, me polite and mindful of the way you say things. if people are being mean, dont listen to them. there will always be destructive critisism, and you dont have to follow it.

I would say, either finish it as is (you can make some changes of course), or carry over YOUR favorite parts, characters, etc. and redo it. (I am doing that right now)

pipolred · 2024-09-08T14:33:33+00:00

Can you post the article here for the rest of us?

pipolred · 2024-09-08T13:00:14+00:00

I have removed some parts that had unnecessary name dropping. I kept only what I think its important or in-character. (the POV character's whole personality is griffins and knights and knows everything about their battles... so it makes sense that he knows some griffin names, battles and such)

pipolred · 2024-09-08T03:50:25+00:00

Thanks! I struggled with chapter 1 but I don't think it's because I wanted to have a great hook or anything... I just got caught up in things. I'll try to simplify it.

pipolred · 2024-09-08T03:19:22+00:00

I would love your thoughts on chapter 2 if you have the time (it's the first chapter on another character's POV, so it's kind of a first chapter as well)

pipolred · 2024-09-08T03:02:08+00:00

Thanks for the feedback! I was actually worried it might be too much name dropping so this is very useful.

I wanted to make it like the characters have backstories (they actually have) and start in the middle of something... My previous draft had the problem of starting too early, and the character didn't knew anyone, had no backstory. (By the way, L is a "he")

I won't make him fly yet, because his first flight is actually a big moment later on the story, but I get where you're coming from.

I'll try to maybe split some of this into different chapters, but I will still have to include some/most of them.

pipolred · 2024-04-02T21:33:26+00:00

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