Yes!! And switching into writing passive voice because you’re not supposed to use “I” for whatever reason is the most difficult thing ever too T_T
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Not really, but I always need help explaining my ideas to my audience clearly, whatever they may be.
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I dunno, the academic writing was already insisting on active voice even when I was finishing my studies a couple of decades ago. At least when you wrote for peer-reviewed journals… I catch glimpses of academic papers and they seem to be all written in active voice and have catchy/hooky titles. I mean, most of the sciences sprung from natural philosophy’s origins so they still have philosophy in there, at their core. And philosophy is writing…
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Guys, if theoretically, I made series, what would be a better series ‘tag’/‘name’:
The Brew #1, The Brew #2, etc
or The Brew City, book 1 etc?
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I am going to finish where I left off in the rewriting of Red Reign: The Breaker of Renna.
No more parts for me!
Side Note: I really hate being a woman! Some have it worse while others are either luck or have it less!
Ugh! Much Frustration!
Whatever time to write.
I’m thinking maybe The Brew City, book 1 because that’s how they’d do it on Amazon…? But it’s up to you–either would work well. ¯\_(ﭢ)_/¯
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Yeah, I like both, though The Brew #1 etc sounds more hip to me 
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And speaking of Wattpad, one has to wonder how soon it will be before the executive staff figures out they can charge writers to boost their rankings in search results like every other platform has. (>‿◠)
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I wish my professors would catch on 
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Many hours later and I’ve finally made a Buzzfeed “which character are you?” quiz in Google Sheets (that still barely works). Woohoo.
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Forgot a while back I gave my POV on novel sites I had used here. Now in 2023, seems some of these sites had a shift in other trends or operations. This post is pretty much null and void.
TapRead is a NO-GO. The site had been operating out of US at the time of it’s goodish days, but when its user behaviors began to decline and they didn’t invest in promotional activities, the US office closed shop and the site ended up back to China. The site is barely functioning.
For me, Scribble Hub is a dead end. BL is not a well-read genre there and with my stories being more BL Subplot, it totally dived into a zero abyss.
I’m doing a test-run on Tapas, but I doubt my story will be discovered. Even if it’s a BL that would fit the audience. Tapas is over saturated in the genre, and readers can be picky. So I expect my account to be inactive by the end of the test-run. Zero being a real number to expect.
But all the above is good and well if I can actually write something on my goal WIP. I’m struggling to finish off my current volume for my BL Sci-fi.
Oh and ever since I quite Twitter (coz I was tired of being deboosted and shadow banned), I’m active on Plurk and enjoying it. Although, to be discovered there is difficult. So most of the times I’m just talking to myself. I’m hoping regularly posting there can pick me up lots in AI search engines. That’s the primary reason to post there other than being a Twitter alternative.
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(Wave) good to see you around.
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Today I wrote the final scene of this book (or rather super bare bones of it).
I’m not done with the climax yet but so far everything is pointing to lots of emotions and lots of sad. Which I guess shouldn’t be that surprising when I start the book with a tragedy.
So I’ve been wondering what I could do in the closing scene because for all the sadness in this story, I wanted to end it on hope. I had an idea and wanted to write it down to see how it would work. And I think this might be it. This is my ending.
It will answer a couple of questions readers might have regarding MC’s future. If the story’s question is “Will he be okay?” then this scene would answer that the world hadn’t ended (I don’t mean in an epic sense but internal), and finally he has a plan for the future. In the first scene of the book he not only doesn’t have a plan, but he also pushes back when his parents try to help him plan, he tries to delay future in a way. So this ending is a nice contrast to that. He’s changed. He grew the heck up.
It’s kind of funny how basic the last sentence ended up being. Hopefully, I’ll figure out how to make it cooler or maybe I’ll keep it simple. We’ll see if this will fit the tone of the scene once I write it properly. For now, it ends with,
“Sure,” Grandpa said at last, and they got back to watching Judge Judy.
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I lucked out on Tapas when I hung out on their forums. People were talking about their projects and Tapas staff lurks in there and one of them was like, “Dragons? I love dragons,” and he recommended my book to be featured on the front page. That gave me a nice little boost while it lasted. It would’ve worked better if the book was longer but unfortunately it was just a novella. I had nothing else to add once I ran out of chapters.
So I recommend checking out their forums and engaging with others there. You never know.
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Cheers. I might give it a go after my test run. I’m trying to gauge organic discovery, so I’ll just be uploading for the benefit of the test.
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I strongly feel I won’t have a good chance on Tapas. It’s too fixed on what it wants and has a tight readership.
My belief in story discovery anyway is really low these days. I have some experience to back that belief, being at this game for far too long.
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It’s about time I decide if it’s New Solleil or New Soleil
I’ve spelled it both ways
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I really like how it looks with just the one L 
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I agree that one L looks better to me
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@ToriHope @DomiSotto funny you guys say that because the name comes from “soleil” meaning “sun” in French. No wonder it looks good. It’s an actual word. I didn’t make it up. But I could add an extra “L” for funzies if I wanted 
Idk why I did. I think I initially wrote it as Soleil.
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