10 REAL writing advice without sugar-coating

[bulgariansumo]

oh I did say to not take it seriously, this is a thing from the past and for traditional pubbing; nowadays people are looking for a good story; and yeah I do read dictionaries and use thesaurus. But not for "all words" I mean, I do have to improve my writing style. Even if simplicity does work best, It doesnt mean I should stick to it. If you read my current novel, you realize how weird the writing style is, which is just for that series because the whole series is weird. If I wanted to write a normal one, I would've used simple words.

Ahh, sorry. I missed the "don't take it seriously" part. That's my mistake. And yeah, it depends on the type of story you're telling and the style you're going for. I just wanted to apologize for that misunderstanding before something happens to this thread.

"a mystery novel that just happened to have two women in love,"

oh that's what it was. The GL was not a major focus

Ohhhh, that makes more sense. Like me and other people said, it's normal for people to latch onto things like that. Plus with a lot of people not being the type to comment, it probably looked like that's all your readers cared about. You said there were other reasons that you dropped that story, so I'm not going to say that you shouldn't have. But if enough people were reading to comment on the relationship, there were probably even more people that enjoyed other aspects of the story along with it.

[Abel]

I have a feeling you created this forum post because you don't feel valued as an author.

Maybe you don't have the kind of fans that other creators have or as many as you wanted, maybe people don't read or comment on your stories like you thought they would, or you're nowhere near as successful as you thought you'd be after listening to what you call Inspirational BS.

Maybe.

But the attitude you're projecting won't get you what you want or help you reach your goals any faster because you think it's all about giving up and lowering your expectations. It's actually about setting short-term goals that help you achieve what's long-term and celebrating the little victories instead of trying to flex that you decided to delete an entire story because you didn't feel like readers appreciated every little thing, including what you felt was most important. And if you continue with a I'm going to control what my audience enjoys about my stories mindset, then it's going to lead to nothing but even more disappointment.

I think you should take your own advice and BE SMART.

You're not going to get anywhere posting bitter forum posts then arguing with people who think that your negativity is what's holding you back. And I'm gonna guess your list reflects who you are as a writer--you went in with high expectations with a story that didn't have what audiences wanted and probably, deep down, felt like a rip-off of something more popular.

Honestly, I hope you reread some of these replies and rethink your approach to becoming the author you wanna be.

[rajillustration]

Welcome to the forum, hayka, where if you say lukewarm points, people read it completely literally without seeing any sort of sarcasm and drag you into hell for any of your flaws or disagreements as if you are meeting them at a court of law. Happens to everyone at least once.

Honestly if you ever decide to shelve writing a story, especially if your audience is making you feel uncomfortable--that's fine and understandable! You are allowed to be upset that people hyperfocused on the relationship and not the actual plot and technique of your story. A lot of very young readers are fixated with LGBT+ romance right now, and they leave very young people comments that can be aggravating if you wanted your audience to be older and more mature.

I think also, most of the people here are comic writers, and so we're not use to what's going on with wattpad and online books. Comics take so freakin long to make you don't see tagging abuse as often, or performative characters that don't make sense because half of us never get around to even...showing our side characters. I cannot stress how long it takes to make a comic. Not to say all the representation is well written, or that all comics are well written, because we all have read some stinkers, but comics seem to try harder to make it work because you have to DRAW that.

So for people reading this thread, remember the book scene is kinda different than the comic scene. There be a lot of rushed books out there like you can't believe, going after whatever the trending tags are, and basically making an inferior copy of whatever is popular.

[Hayka]

yeah yeah they'll probably take this one down. And yes I am getting some court vibes here, so I'm not gonna discuss them any further
I'ma let them take what they take. There were people who liked some of those stuff. Even if there's only one person that agrees with them I did something right, so knowing that I don't really mind.

[Hayka]

yeah yeah they'll probably take this one down. And yes I am getting some court vibes here, so I'm not gonna discuss them any further
I'ma let them take what they take. There were people who liked some of that stuff. Even if there's only one person that agrees with them I did something right, so knowing that I don't really mind.

[DasIstWunderblyat]

Yup, wanting a specific type of audience is not entitlement or elitism. The only problem is when you make a huge deal about it, and/or openly and directly say insults to the wrong audience. Though, the 'wrong' type of audience will always find a way to show up even with a calculation to avoid them, so in a public site like this it's hard to avoid. (I admit sometimes they're even not as bad as I thought and it's just my judgement)

(Though it's always sad when creatives have to stop creating because of their audience.)

LOL. Only in novel medium you can see people ripping off an airing drama series by turning it into prose form.

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