With your heart on your sleeve? Write something that makes you anxious. Lol
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I can’t. All I can think about is that Mozalev will fail to qualify for free skate and they will bury him.
Oh my God, they have 3 positive cases in Krasnoyarsk’s pre-Oly camp, not Mozalev so far, but so close. The didn’t bubble the national team… HOW? God, I hope they will test them and put them into the bubble in China ASAP. Stay healthy, stay healthy, stay healthy 
The kid is a week away from going to the Olympics. Universe, have mercy…
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I am putting only my first drafts on Wattpad, lol.
Contempt?
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And I don’t want my good drafts and work stolen by some knock off Vietnamese website lol.
Ah…lol. I don’t see how to stop that altogether.
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Same, lmao.
Am also testing the waters and experimenting on Wattpad.
Was just reading yesterday, same plan for today.
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Editing and I found that I wrote: he studied it a little enough to speak
A little enough.
I don’t think that makes sense. Either he studied a little, or he studied enough, right? XD
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Yeah, I think ‘he studied it enough’ sounds right to me! Or maybe ‘just enough’ or ‘barely enough’ if you’re wanting to show that he put minimal effort into it.
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After stalking Nick’s feedback on Discord for a while, and having a short discussion with him about time changes, I have a question for you all because now I’m paranoid about my opening chapter of a different book.
So, in the chapter I start out where the MC is hanging out with a friend. The MC uses his friend’s phone to call his father, finds out his father is taking his grandma to the hospital, and then the MC takes his friend’s phone and drives to the hospital (he panics, and doesn’t tell his friend that’s where he’s going until later lol). There’s a scene break between this and him arriving at the hospital and meeting up with his dad.
The reason I set it up this way, was because I wanted the story to start out lighter and kind of humorous and then switch to the darker, more intense ending of the chapter. I want the readers to, hopefully, care about the MC a little bit so the ending feels memorable and symbolic since it’ll impact things later. I also want readers to know this whole book won’t be doom and gloom because the premise of the book kind of makes it out that way lol.
Do you think that’s enough of a reason to warrant having a time skip in chapter one? Or should I just start at the hospital, since the first scene isn’t all that important beyond atmosphere set up and characterization?
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Try it without and see if you are pulling for the MC. Also, is this friend a major character later on? If not, I am more in favor of cutting.
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Yeah, they’re not really important. I’m considering cutting the friend in the revisions, tbh. I’ll try it without again and see what happens. I’ve tried it a couple different ways before and just struggled so much with getting the scene to introduce everything I need before the inciting incident happens x.x so I don’t really know what to do. I was kinda hoping I could get away with the first scene being there ahaha.
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If the friend is not a character of importance, I wouldn’t use them in chapter 1. I kindda expect everything to be important from the start, so I would be looking for this character later on.
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Fair enough! My original intention with her was for her to be important, but then the book changed course, so I just don’t think I can get away with having her there anymore without a total rewrite. I’m having to delete a solid 3 characters from my revisions because they ceased to be important. This book really wants a small cast for some reason lol!
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I might have made a potential mistake with writing chapter two.
I will most likely have to rethink things.
EDIT: I was a bit too happy and too in a rush to post something online.
Dearest me!
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…he studied it a little–enough to speak…it can work as it is as an interjection…depending on what surrounds it.
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Umm Wattpad I guess sent out a survey to some people (I wasn’t included, but my friend was and she sent me pictures). It’s asking questions like these, and after the whole ONC thing this is giving me a bunch of red flags.
And I guess it also asked about how much we trust the ranking system, etc. This whole survey just sounds so sketchy and slimy and I really don’t like it.
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My thing is that it’s something I would write: and it would have purpose so I’d have to write it with all the bells and whistles that make disjointed sentences work.
Specifically, it comes across as this person took the barest education to learn to speak a language. (Which is a hell of a lot more work than my passing 2 years of Spanish. )
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