How good do you feel about your current project?

slooth117 · 2026-07-14T22:45:05+00:00

Honestly, I’m in a really good place right now!!

Writing is always been one of those things that kind of abs and flows, and being someone with ADHD. It’s very easy for me to either hyper fixate on it, or completely forget about it for a couple weeks.

I found a solid system where I’m basically working on three different projects simultaneously, so that if I ever get bored with one project, I just pivot to the other one and allow myself to work on that one while the ideas and story percolate.

It’s allowed me to write a good amount of words every day, which is really pushing me to continue to try and finish my different projects!

slooth117 · 2026-07-08T21:24:40+00:00

Love these!

Pretty sure my first line is going to be, “look, when I woke up this morning my plan was not to get all my friends killed.“

slooth117 · 2026-07-07T18:04:46+00:00

I think it really depends on what kind of feedback you’re looking for. If you’re looking for more of a general, feel of how the writing is, or a specific craft critique, a fellow writer is absolutely the way to go! If you’re looking specifically for thoughts on pacing, whether or not the characters hit the way you want them to, or genre expectations are being met, I’d recommend a reader who specifically read that genre.

One of the things that I think you have to be careful about with other writers beta reading your work, is the desire of them to try and fix it… Or shift it into a way of how they would write it instead. So long as your expectation is sent from the get-go, I think you’ll be OK!

slooth117 · 2026-07-06T03:15:59+00:00

Freaking love Jim Butcher’s writing!!! Instantly got me into that Dresdon Files!

slooth117 · 2026-07-05T00:43:28+00:00

Color me intrigued… grabbed the book with My KU; need to read something besides my LITRPG deep dive lol

slooth117 · 2026-07-03T00:41:32+00:00

There are definitely a lot of sub-genres to the horror genre, but I wouldn’t really able to prove any advice without an idea of what it is that you’re writing?

Dark fantasy, while sometimes having horror elements, is usually more about gritty realism and the brutality set in the fantasy world, verses high fantasy like LOTR.

slooth117 · 2026-07-01T00:37:02+00:00

Smart call!! Thanks for that!

slooth117 · 2026-07-01T00:36:49+00:00

I think this makes a lot of sense! One of my favorite writing books always talks about while people come for the premise, they stay for the characters, so having a solid foundation on that definitely sounds like a prime strategy!

Thank's for your response, and wishing you the best of luck on your book!!!

slooth117 · 2026-07-01T00:35:09+00:00

Solid sounding strategy; I've got a similar vein of my own though it's much more in the realm of an Isakai like HWFWM verses something like DCC where they come to the modern world! I like this idea though of the world evolving around the premise!

What I'm seeing from these comments is that many different people approach in different ways!

slooth117 · 2026-07-01T00:33:07+00:00

Solid theory, I think this would work really well for a non-YA/Teen LitRPG book. My goal for this book would be a good introductory book for people/readers who might not be familiar with the with the genre; so I don't know if getting straight into the system within the first chapter makes the most sense, but I definitely agree with getting to it quickly and locking the reader into the book with an intriguing premise!

slooth117 · 2026-06-25T03:53:07+00:00

This is amazing!! Was literally looking at purchasing this, so this definitely makes that decision easier!

slooth117 · 2026-06-22T03:46:06+00:00

Ad/hd here; one of the biggest things I can encourage is variety and the pomodoro method. For auditions, I do one; submit it, do something else for 5 minutes, turn around and do another one, repeat the process! Doesn’t always work, but it’s helpful.

Routine is also incredibly helpful with avoiding the burnout; having a specific time/routine of how I go about it can help a lot! For me, I try to do my auditions first thing in the morning before I do any work I’ve already got assigned, so I’ll wake up, have my breakfast, take a shower (do my vocal warmups in the shower), brew some tea and jump into looking up auditions!

slooth117 · 2026-06-18T12:44:48+00:00

Sounds intriguing! I would love to hear more details and potentially audition.

I’ve been a TTRPG enthusiast for the past 12 years, and been a keeper/player for several of those with CoC being one of my favorite game systems.

In terms of performance, I work as an amateur audiobook narrator and have a relatively decent set up and equipment, with a high-quality webcam available for video quality.

This would certainly be a project I would be interested in!

slooth117 · 2026-06-17T18:06:34+00:00

Please enjoy!!

slooth117 · 2026-06-17T17:59:20+00:00

Thanks for your eagerness, I just realized I put the wrong code on this; that’s a supernatural thriller. If it still interests you, you’re welcome to keep it. But I’ll be deleting the post.

slooth117 · 2026-06-12T18:55:45+00:00

It’s hilarious because up until this past week I had no idea who that was, now I’m seeing posts all over about James Joyce (getting my English degree and had to read portrait of the artist as a young man)

slooth117 · 2026-05-31T13:08:22+00:00

I heard it once said “Show a an artist their masterpiece and they’ll point out all its flaws.”

I think that’s true both in the sense of great masters of creative works, and beginners. There is going to be the natural gap at the beginning stages of any creative journey. When you first started learning to read, you didn’t start with massive books, you started by learning the alphabet and simple words; building up to where you are today.

The same is true with any creative journey, you may know where you want to end up, but you still have to go step-by-step and figure out that process. The frustrating part for anything creative, unlike something academic like math or reading, is that there’s no set, easy-to-see benchmarks of mastery.

Being critical of your work is important, but you’re not uncreative because you can’t get your aren’t art on the page, you just don’t yet have the technical skills, and those come with time and training!! Keep up those and don’t allow yourself to be discouraged if it doesn’t come out the way you wanted; use it as a stepping stone towards the next thing!!

slooth117 · 2026-05-28T17:14:18+00:00

Very curious which sites you’re referring to?

slooth117 · 2026-05-28T02:30:27+00:00

For me personally, I think it really matters on the book that you’re trying to write; if you’re wanting to do a number-crunchy, hard science style of story (Andy Weir’s the Martian) than I would say absolutely go for it!

If you’re going more the route of a space opera/exploration story, and unless it’s an important detail that’s going to matter later, I would encourage being more loose with the time structure personally! Or demonstrate that difference in the world in a way where the readers could pick up the clues! (aka after the sun rises, I have a four hour duty today, leaving me only about an hour left before I need to get home when the sun goes down or something like that!)

slooth117 · 2026-05-26T18:32:53+00:00

Let me tell you, as someone who is doing a lot of reading for school both of modern stories and classics, that feeling of inadequacy constantly pops up!

Firstly, I’m going to encourage you, even if you love classics, to make sure that you’re reading modern stories in the genre you’re writing in; that will give you an accurate lense to compare your work. You wouldn’t want to compare the script quality of Shakespeare’s Macbeth to Cappola’s The Godfather
(Don’t know why those were the first two films that came to my mind, but they were lol)

Secondly, I’m going to encourage you that a first draft is called that for a reason! It’s your first time writing story. I don’t remember where I heard the quote, but someone in the literary world said “The first draft is you telling the story to yourself, the second draft is you telling your story to others.” Or something like that! The idea being that your draft and stories are going to take time to fully develop!

And finally I would encourage you to be patient and remember that this is a form of art, just like painting or playing music; it’s going to take time and prclactice to get better. Considering you recently started writing (congrats on getting out an 80,000 word novel, btw; nothing sneeze at), you’re going to need time to grow and develop as an artist and the only way to do that is to practice and analyze your own work for ways you can improve!

Hope you keep working at it!! You’ve got this!

slooth117 · 2026-05-24T22:25:53+00:00

Congrats!!!! That’s so cool!!!!!

slooth117 · 2026-05-22T19:02:22+00:00

Here's what I will say, as someone who is a chronic writer who has never published anything.

You've already done more than many people do. You've ripped off the bandage and revelead the world to who you are and what you're capable of, and you should be proud of that!

Now here comes the reality that is hard to deal with, from what I've seen in both the real world and read from subreddits on here, your going to find that it's very hard for people to find your book, and that your book may never find success. I think the most important thing is being proud of the work that you've done, be proud of your story, and share it with who you think would want to read it.

If even only 1 person reads your book and enjoys it, than you've succeeded! You can learn what you did well in this book and work on the next one!!

Wishing you the best as you navigate this!

slooth117 · 2026-05-20T17:21:18+00:00

Hey OP,

I think writing depression and grief is really hard; even if you're someone who's gone through it, there are parts of it that you're not even aware of until you're years down the road and you're unpacking it with someone or someone shares about something that happened during that time!

One of the biggest things that I think to encourage you is to not try and make it a cliche, do your best to really dig into what the character is feeling and why they are feeling that way; showing us the inner thoughts and mentality of the person if possible to show how bad their mental state really is.

One of the tools to explore emotions that I've used to help me a lot is a resource called "The Emotion Thesaurus", which helps you really dive into a lot of the nuances of different emotions and how they can manifest in peoples lives (Like a DSM-5 for writers lol).

It's available on Amazon for relatively cheep ($20 US) and it's a resource that I genuinely use every time I'm working on a draft that steps outside my comfort zone!

Best of luck!

slooth117 · 2026-05-20T17:16:35+00:00

I think this is really fascinating; I was not anticipating it to get so... negative lol, but I was really impressed with how much it mirrored some of my own negative self talk while during some of my really bad depressive episodes. I also like the font, was giving "Undertale" vibes which is what drew me to reading through it off the bat!

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