I’m not a very visual person. Latinx has always been a bit too much like latex.
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Bluntly, this silence shows who the favored minority group is when there’s a clash of offenses. There will always be clashes of offenses, and sometimes justly so. I don’t care if a truly supremacist person is being rubbed the wrong way, that cat needs to turn it’s butt around. But it’s not always just.
To make matters worse, if there is any “white savior” to it, having another “white savior” come correct it doesn’t generally help.
But it’s all a part of why I dislike any modern use of offense. Offense used to be what the rock that makes you stumble on the path you’ve chosen to walk. It wasn’t just feelings. Feelings can lie to you–its why so many people wake up angry after a cheating dream. In some cases, there isn’t any difference, but not often enough.
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And, yay, finished. It wasn’t a large piece, but it rounded off the chapter and ended up on a cliffhanger sentence I was itching to write for a while.
Now a transitional chapter with some revelations and ‘whiff of death’ in this case of the house he was so attached to, before the happy reunion and the five-point finale with some unbelievable Assassin Creed grade heroics, but ah, I want it, so I get it.
Guys on the forum suggested Friday as update day, so I am going for it.
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i just finished chapter 20 but i think i need to scrap the first half and re-write it for pacing reasons 
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Thursday morning looks really quiet, but it’s a back to school day for a lot of people, I assume, so I hope I will have a better luck for the update to be noticed posting tomorrow.
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Jimmy is trying to kiss my ass so that I write about him. But he has no real plot, so he can go for a walk and think one up…
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starting off thursday strong with a negative review and showing up to a new campus 2 hours early for a class :,)
r.i.p. my anxiety.
anyways, i’ll have to re-read the review when i’m less stressed and see how useful it actually is. there were parts of the review that seemed questionable… like they wanted me to use less ‘purposefully confusing’ pronouns for a character who at one point was literally the only character on page (the pronouns being they/them and the problem being that it sounded like they were plural sometimes).
probably should have read some of the reviews/the books they reviewed first to see if they made valid points but oh well. i’ll go back tonight and take notes for editing and then apply for some more reviews from other people to see if they have similar problems with the story. 
identifying problem areas y’all
I’m a big fan of critiques on my work but in this particular case i think i want second opinions 
tries not to sound bitter
i woke up like 2 minutes ago lol don’t yell at me
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This doesn’t even take reading a whole chapter, just an excerpt of the section that is most obnoxiously the same as the complaint. You’d still have to start at a point that clearly references who is being addressed, though. Sometimes it’s easier to get a mass of people to look at 600, 1K words than a whole chapter.
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My instinct tells me that Imaginerium should be a video game and not a book
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There are days I sit down to write and instead have fun with AI art and graphic design. What can I do? I create stuff for my projects so I justify that I’m working but when you’re having so much fun, it doesn’t feel like work.
I’ll try to reign in that hobby to get some balance in there. -
I’ve officially decided that I’m going to put this project on hold and work on something else. But before I do, I want to finish up a couple of things and leave as many notes as I can for myself so next time I can easily get back into this project.
I’ve been thinking of doing this for quite a long time but have put it off out of fear that if I do, then next time I get back to it, I won’t be in the same head space and I’ll resort to starting from scratch again. And I really don’t want to! I’ve made such progress. It’d be a shame to scrap it all.
But there’s just so long you can delay. And so I started wrapping it up, and interestingly, I wrote stuff. I’m feeling a bit motivated to write again.
And I’m thinking that there’s a psychological aspect to this. I’m closing it so I want to get my thoughts and notes down and organized.
I think there’s a lesson to learn here about motivation and goals. I’ve been setting myself smaller goals before but this is different because it’s a very different goal from “get to the midpoint twist where this and that happens.” “Wrap it up” is a much less open-ended goal, it’s much more clearer and feels more achievable because I’m not forcing myself to come up with new stuff but to write down stuff I already know.
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I think Marvin wants to have a talk with me…
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That wasn’t the only complaint it was just the one that stuck out most to me as questionable at the moment. Like I said, I need to go back and re-read it more carefully, preferably on desktop instead of mobile so i can tab between review and writing. So i’d still want people to see the whole thing, or as much as they’re willing to review, because I still want to see if they come to that complaint and any of the others on they’re own.
Also I can definitely see singular they/them being a little confusing, especially in group scenarios, and I’ll definitely work the group scenes over anyways. It’s just the way the complaint was worded makes me think that the problem is that I used singular they/them at all.
but maybe i’ll post an exerpt or two here… just for some quick confirmation
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That’s a great idea, also what they themselves write! Like, in my reviewer profile I emphatically suggest to avoid engaging me as a reviewer with certain themes!
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That’s a great idea!
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they had pretty covers! 
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Oh, dang, yeah, then… squirrel!
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I’m bored of vapid stories about identity that are overdone, but I’m also bored of stories where the author thinks they’re being clever by adding lots of plot to it and using paint-by numbers plot points.
I could ramble for days about bad reviews on Wattpad. IMO the “best” reviews I’ve received on Wattpad have been ones that took a broad perspective, e.g. reading the entire book and commenting on things like character development and theme, rather than dismantling a few paragraphs and assuming that really tells someone what a book is about or how to improve. Give me enough motivation and I’ll find a way to pick apart any paragraphs you give me: that doesn’t mean I’m right or the feedback is helpful. There’s a MFA student who does really good reviews, but she’s been AWOL for a few weeks, sadly (I’m guessing school started up again for her).
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Was thinking along the lines of both, myself. The part that would probably mix me up is generic use and specific gender designations, both singular use they/them, but then, I don’t think I’ve ever seen it actually used in cotrast.
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