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Apologies!
I’ve been here awhile and I’ve made some posts and comments. If I’ve ever said or hurt anyone, I apologise.
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Happy New Year!
Hope you have a wonderful year and success in your writing.
deframj22
Research - virtual and/or real.
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Question!
Any writers writing a character from a different culture?
How do you make your character culturally accurate and respectful?
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@SAGAof2000 ‘Immersiveness’ is actually a real word according to ‘merriam-webster dictionary’.
SAGAof2000
@Romizabooks This is how you do it: Number 1: If your setting is in the same country as where the character's race is from, then you have to study your geography because sometimes a few things are normal for them. Number 2: If they are people who moved to another country like an immigrant, then just make them good at cooking food from their culture and don't put anything extreme related to their race, just let them fit in with the setting which is the main reason for a story, immersiveness, yes I made up that word.
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Question Time!
How long should someone spend on editing their first draft? How long do you normally take to edit a first draft?
monasabay0010
As little time as possible. Reread it once. Maybe have someone else read it. Then correct the errors you both fine. Then, be done. If someone finds errors later, maybe fix them. Or not. But I find if I take to much time on error correction, I never get done with a chapter, much less a story. Just my advice, so toss it or use it. Your call.
deframj22
@Romizabooks The more times I read my story, the more I find something to change, even after I've run a Grammarly/proof read check. There's always a word or a sentence that's not quite right.
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Legacies & Bloodlines (young adults paranormal) (Novel November project)
Synopsis
Fourteen-year-old Eva is new in town and takes an afterschool job at the Mystic Curio Shop—a strange place that ordinary people can’t see. Only one other student, Clara Harker, can see it too. Clara claims Dracula is not fiction but a true historical account—and that her ancestor, Jonathan Harker, was one of its heroes. Eva brushes it off as fantasy—until she rescues a boy named Ethan from monster hunters and discovers the truth. Ethan, a shapeshifter, is her long-lost twin, and Eva is a descendant of the legendary Van Helsing family.
As Eva unravels her hidden heritage, she bonds with Ethan’s supernatural bandmates and joins their group, rehearsing for a performance at Late Night Bite, a restaurant for the mythical community. The shop’s mysterious owner warns Eva of a terrible being imprisoned in the forest—one that can only be freed by the blood of her bloodline.
When a mythical student goes missing in town, the group joins the search, only to discover they were too late. The truth behind her disappearance hints at something far darker, and a mysterious newcomer in town may hold the key to uncovering what happened.
With Ethan guiding Eva through the mythical world, Eva starts to find her place—until a betrayal changes everything. When Ethan is kidnapped by an ex-bandmate turned enemy, Eva and Clara must team up to stop an ancient evil from being unleashed—and protect both worlds from falling into darkness.
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Beta Readers
Anyone wanting to beta read a young adults novel after I do some editing?
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Novel November
Draft 1 complete
54k words
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Hi everyone,
If I were to start a subscription for a small fee for my writing on another platform, would anyone subscribe?
My writing will always be free on wattpad, but it would be nice to have a way to earn a little money.
Ana_Miga
@Romizabooks I just started it. It's not exactly a story platform but a writer's platform which gives writers an opportunity to earn. But I guess you need to be a popular writer to get some earnings. People write on various topics including stories and poetry and has a more mature audience than Wattpad. You post your story and you can send it to your subscribers as mails of you want. You can post small notes and you can even invite people for a chat. As I said, it's not just stories; but you can write on topics like finance, movie reviews etc.