XVA-Stories

It's the first part of any story I've started on Wattpad https://www.wattpad.com/story/108012551

AbstruseTAG

When I started reading you story, there was a great deal of redundancy, not just plane repetition, but actual repetition from other stories.
          
          I read your bio, you said you liked anime. From my research there are lots of anime out there that are about gods and creation etc.
          
          What I am trying to say is, that while your concept is unique, the story background is not. It has been done.
          
          I am not being rude or mean (please understand, what I am saying)
          
          You should work on making the story unique.
          
          I will read the rest of it and come back with advise on how to make it more original.
          
          I realise that English is not your first language. So I am willing to help edit your story. If you want, before you publish a chapter you can send it to me so I can fix spelling and grammar errors (If you want)
          
          Don't take this message too personally, I just like helping people, sometimes I seem too forward. 
          
          Kind regards
          l_o

XVA-Stories

@AbstruseTAG Thank you for taking your time to promptly read and review the Prologue. I agree that it may use some rework, as well as some heavy editing so that it doesn't reveal everything from the very start. I planned to have it as an intro so that the reader knows what is happening and why. However, even I now can see that it is too much as it is - Maybe leaving just the part with Kayzuu, a bit about the gods, and the character leaving the village would have been the better thing to do.
            
            Also, I do wish to know about these other stories that the one I write about is entering the bounds of. As much as I love anime and reading, and as much as I know that there are plenty of anime's based on gods, I also don't know exactly all of them, so I tried to push away from the ones I've already seen by a landslide. Perhaps you could tell me which ones so that I may do a bit of research and deviate away from those as well?
            
            As for redundancy and all the mistakes made during the creation of the chapters - I plan on polishing, reworking and remaking each chapter as I move with more updates. You are right on one thing though - I should make chapters shorter, to around 700-1500 words, but it would also mean I'd have to post a bit more frequently. Perhaps preparing them in advance and simply cutting them into segments that would be posted every day or two would sound a bit better.
            
            Lastly, I would like to thank you again. This time for offering your help, I really don't wish to waste any bit of your time, but I would love to have someone tell me if some part needs to be worked on, or if there is a mistake somewhere, however I cannot allow any editing  by another hand. The reason being if I don't figure out the best way to write it down, then I won't progress any further, and I'll most likely repeat the same mistake.
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