FelipeArchi
Hi group right now I’m writing about the seven deadly sins, of course I want to use poetry with and without rhythm, in a perspective from a human who has experienced the best of the sin, but nowis living with the consequences as a penance.
For the moment there are just two chapters written, PRIDE and GREED. Please read and review them to give me some feedback or an advice.
The titled is “God forgot about me”
Thanks!
Scaley Randy
So lately I've been wanting to continue with a story I've been working on for a couple months however I'm finding myself a bit stuck. To keep the next chapter from just being a fight scene, I've thought about expounding on a character. I have some idea on how to do so but I've been finding that I can't quite "click" with how exactly to go about characterizing them. On top of that, whenever I do want to write, I feel a bit low energy and with my classes coming up, I'm worried I might be too busy
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to continue. Any advice on how to overcome this minor block and how to balance out my studies with finishing this story?
Kassidy Duncan
The studies vs. writing part can be a bit tough; my suggestion would be to create a schedule with time allocation for your studies to give you better peace of mind with that. Everything outside that schedule is free, so you can write or do other
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things.
As for characterization for the next chapter, I would recommend balancing it out with that fight scene. Characterization shouldn't take place just in one big chunk or even just in one chapter, so be careful with that.
Whanita Walters
Hello Everybody... so, i am writing a novel dealing with a young teen who has the world on her shoulders and her life is turned upside down... the problem i have is creating a very catchy plot because my book's pattern is looking like my seven year old cousin drawing a hill... i need help or rather tips to create a solid plot
Please!!! your help will be appreciated a thousand fold
James Villinger
Well, there's heaps of things you could do, depending on what theme and audience you're after.
A happier, more upbeat story might see the hero given a bunch of responsibilities all of a sudden, and struggle to juggle them all. For example,
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they might be put in charge of the school dance, but that also happens to be the weekend their cousin (who they hate) is visiting from out of town, and maybe their mother is going through a breakup at the same time, etc. The story coalesces in the end with the girl trying to solve all the problems at once but failing spectacularly, then perhaps the moral of the story is to kind of let it go sometimes.
Of course, the more cliche story would be a depressing, emo-esque, typical young-adult story where the character is constantly whining about how about their life is and why none of the hot boys like her, etc, etc.
Personally I'd rather see the former.
Kassidy Duncan
If you're worried it's looking like a lot of other ones, there are a few things you can do. For one, focus on the writing style; sometimes a very basic plot can be over-looked when the narration/writing is super catchy or different (this is
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particularly true for teen drama books).
Another way of going about it is writing your final scene (even if it's just a rough draft or skeleton) FIRST. You can get as wacky or out of the blue as you want, and that can help trigger different means/plots of getting to that point when you go back and start from the beginning.
johnksutherland
Kurt Vonnegut has a delightful little film of the plot trajectory for successful novels. Despair to worse despair, turnabout and then progression to elation. One example he used was the story of Cinderella. It's a very humorous but enlightening
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little presentation. Look for Vonnegut and Cinderella, or other key words. If I find it I will post it here.
Kayresia A. Bass
Hello Everyone!
I have questions about characters tonight.
How do you go about naming your characters in your novels? Does the main character have some strong uncommon name? Is your main character inspired by someone or something (a song maybe)? I know it depends on the story, but I would love to know how you all come across character names.
I am always looking for something unique and uncommon for my main character. I know the character of this person and search the
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net like a mad woman for a name that might fit. Do you all go through similar experiences?
Kay
Kassidy Duncan
Names can be pretty difficult. On the one hand, you want your novel to stand out, for people to have a name to remember when they're reading your book. That said, I think there can be a lot of distraction when you have too many unique names; there's
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a fine balance that should be upheld.
I guess this also depends on the type of book and the context in which that unique name is. If it's based on a different planet, then definitely go for lots of weird names (after all, they have a different culture, so it would hardly name sense if they had vanilla names like John and Sarah). But I do find it a little distracting when I see some books that have (for example) Caucasian people with 6 names each, some of them Japanese for no other reason than the author liking that culture. Lots of examples of that--especially in fan fiction--that really ruin books for me.
When it comes to naming my own characters, I'm picky as hell. Maybe even too picky, haha? I take into consideration the amount of syllables it has in conjunction with other names, how it sounds with the last name, the starting and ending sounds (I don't like having characters that start with the same sound or end with the same one either)... Most of the time, I try to also incorporate meaning into the name as well, though a meaningful name still needs to follow the rules I outlines above.
I'm really quite pathetic when it comes to naming characters, haha!
James Villinger
When I came up with my character names, I chose temporary names that I thought I'd "replace with better ones later on". But when I started (and finished) writing, I found that the names kind of stuck, so I didn't change them.
A name
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doesn't HAVE to be something related to their character, it can just be a regular name. You can think of famous characters in history that share similar traits, or you can find the origins and meanings of certain names.
For example, I have a character with Echolalia, a form of Tourette's syndrome where they repeat what others say. I decided to name her Kyoko, which in Japanese can mean 'echo' or 'mirror'.
Sometimes, though, the best name is one that just rolls off the tongue, something you can say over and over, but still seems a little bit original. John, for example, would be a bad idea. Curtis / Curt, on the other hand, is rarer, it might work. Be careful not to choose names with special hyphens and pronunciations, where your readers will all disagree on how its said, especially Alien names. Example, Hermoine from the Harry Potter series was quite annoying to say when the book first came out.
HEENAKHAN
Hi. I would like some reviewers for my book, There were sparrows, a coming-of-age romance set in India. I have done another round of edit for the book, made shorter chapters so that it is easy to read it online, and restructured the whole prose. It has a definite feminine bent to it. I will welcome all reviews--- good bad and ugly... You can find my novel here: https://www.inkitt.com/stories/99817?preview=true .
James Villinger
Hi, there's a special section for requesting reviews. Check the groups up above.
Ginger
Well, I have loads of questions to ask about writing and loads of advice to give too. And, I really need an audience for my murder story, gettin' ready for Halloween REAL early this year. I'm rewriting my first book, so I want to propose an exchange; if you follow my story until its completion, and leave me a review every now and then detailing what you liked and what you disliked (and be honest), I'll do the same for one of your projects. We can trade advice (HONEST advice), chalk up reviews,
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and motivate each other to get one of our projects completed, and also to grow as writers and perfect our skills. Is anyone interested? And, as I add to all my stories, I'll leave you this disclaimer; Wicked is not for the squeamish or the easily offended!
AryaTara
Hi Ginger, I've just added 'Wicked' to my reading list and leave a review. I'm looking for some reviews on my drama/romance 'A half orphan' at https://www.inkitt.com/stories/romance/123746 which has some strange twists to it. I'm new to the writing
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scenario and would love some motivation and advice too. Thanks.
Ginger
Awesome! I'll get on that right now.
StacieEvans89
So I've seen on my analytics that my book-placed-on-hiatus, "The Shadows," has many more reads that my constantly-being-updated-book "Let Me Be The One." Now, "The Shadows" is a YA sci-fi, but "Let Me Be The One" is a YA drama/romance novel. The latter gets way less reads than "The Shadows." For me, it's frustrating as I'm much more invested with "Let Me Be The One" than "The Shadows." Is sci-fi more popular than drama/romance on Inkitt? That's what it seems like to me.
AryaTara
Hi Stacie, I have just reserved your romance novel to read and review. As I'm looking for some reviews on 'A half orphan' which belongs to the same genre, I'd be happy if you would read this at https://www.inkitt.com/stories/romance/123746. This is
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a unique story with some strange twists that is sure to bring forth some emotions! Thanks.
StacieEvans89
Okay, thank you, I'll try to read it, but at the moment I'm not taking any reading requests as I'm already swamped with work, my own story, and soon school.
StacieEvans89
Anyone else want to try to answer my actual question?
Heather Glidewell
Hello Stacie. I remember a poll going around on Facebook or Twitter where it asked readers what genera they were more apt to read. SciFi was the number one item that was chosen. It seems more often than not trending stories are either Fantasy or Science Fiction.
StacieEvans89
So I guess I should be pursuing "The Shadows" instead of "Let Me Be The One"? It's the latter that I'm most focused on, not the former.
Heather Glidewell
Write what you are passionate about. 'The Shadows' is at least getting people interested in what you have to offer. If they like it they will be interested to read 'Let Me Be The One'. Don't forget there is always twitter and facebook to help get your newer title out there.
Kassidy Duncan
I'm not 100% sure I understand what you're asking, but here's some food for thought: Are you writing for yourself, or are you writing for popularity? If you're writing for the second, then focus on the sci-fi one. Analytically speaking, it seems to
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garner more attention and fans. If you're writing for yourself, well... focus on whichever you enjoy writing more. :)
James Villinger
Both Scifi and Romance are the top genres for reading. But have you considered that it isn't the genre that's the problem?
The cover art, or even the title of your work might be drawing more readers in, or vice-a-versa, turning others away from the other story.
StacieEvans89
I can see how the title and the cover for "The Shadows" might look appealing, but "Let Me Be The One" is a YA story. I really had no plans whatsoever to change the title of the latter. I do, however, plan to change the title, "The Shadows," to the original title, "The Hunters."
James Villinger
I'm not exactly sure what the reader-base is like on Inkitt, but I assumed it was more adult readers. I wouldn't mind seeing some actual data from Inkitt themselves, out of curiosity.
Meanwhile, at least 60% of the audience that uses Wattpad are teenage girls.
StacieEvans89
True, but I'm done relying on Wattpad to become a successful writer. I've done everything they've told me to do to become "Wattpad famous," and nothing worked. Apparently I have to write what everyone else is writing in order to become successful.
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"Let Me Be The One" goes against what the main characters are supposed to be written as according to Wattpad. I figured that was one of the reasons why that story, and the series itself that it's in, never took off.
James Villinger
True, almost every one of their stories are like "I'm dating the badboy millionaire" or "Niall from 1D is my new boyfriend" or some other drivel. Hope you find the success you seek here instead.
StacieEvans89
I'd like to, but I might have to get rid of "The Shadows" to get people to even read "Let Me Be The One." Well, once I post all of part one of that later, I'll start requesting beta readers. The only problem is that I can't do read-for-reads at the
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moment as I'm about to go back to school in a few days, plus I have work.
James Villinger
I wouldn't remove anything, if people like one of your works more than the other, let them. Just because one is your personal favourite, doesn't mean the other should be kept on the sidelines. Try instead a more aggressive marketing campaign,
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visiting the various eBook sharing Facebook groups and linking your new story there.
James Villinger
For starters, there are hundreds, if not thousands of groups that would be suitable. Note however that some have specific rules about what you're allowed to post, how frequently, and whether or not you have to contribute to the group in other ways before spamming.
Kassidy Duncan
I'd recommend keeping your sci-fi one there as a means of drawing reader to your other one. If they like your writing for one, they may seek out different titles by you.
Vidânia Macossa
Hello guys! I need someone to leave a review on my story.
https://www.inkitt.com/edit/149030
"Empire Volcano “The princess who donated her kingdom” Saga"
Romance tells the story of Princess Suellenny, a beautiful 21-year-old girl who had a beautiful family. They lived in a kingdom called Volcano which was known as the empire with the most feared fortress among the kingdoms. When her parents and siblings died, she was persuaded by her uncle to donate the kingdom. She discovered
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that her family's death was a conspiracy and would fight to rescue her crown with the training of Thôr, a warrior who was wronged by the court. The battle
SurayaRicard
Hi, Vidania, how are you?I was commenting on your saga, I hope you like what I wrote. I hope to continue to contribute.
Dub Wright
Am looking for a sketch artist to illustrate parts of an exercise book ... to be sold at a conference in May. Also, a co-writer nutritionist - split net 30% each, 10% reserve toward costs. If interested ping me.
James Villinger
If you're looking for artists, this isn't really the place to do it. I'd suggest UpWork (which I use regularly), Fiverr, or possibly DeviantArt.
As for the suggested payment, artists on those sites will probably prefer upfront rather than royalties.
