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Congratulations, you get a 100% A+ on the relationship exam! Wild guessing pays off XD And thanks! I’m glad you like the relationships in my book   I honestly think I have too many LOL!

Yay! I don’t think you can really have too many😂

Thanks for the feedback

You’re welcome!

Ooo okay, maybe I’ll try your tactic! I’m going to have a TON of battle scenes (or training scenes) so maybe this will help me not be so much of a critic to myself   Aww thanks, I appreciate your confidence

I totally understand, I often get so close to my work that I can’t tell if it’s amazing or terrible😂 Just leaving it for a few weeks/months while I work on other chapters helps SO much! It helps me be a little more objective.

You’re welcome!   And YES! I love those kinds of relationships so much XD For some reason the conversations between people like that are so much fun to write. I love the constant bickering and still knowing that the friends actually love each other. Penny has that with her love-triangle guys, because what else can you expect from her snarky character? XD

IKR! I love writing about those relationships too!

Oh I love plot twists and big reveals too! Those are so much fun XD I also love leaving chapters on cliff hangers; I find a strange kind of joy in having people I send the cliff hangers trying to get me to tell them what happens next LOL. The drama of it is the best part

Ahh, yes, ending the chapter on a cliffhanger and briefly torturing your readers. That’s my favorite😂

The struggle is real with battles XD I feel the same way about describing the battles. If this helps at all, whenever I have someone fighting with a sword, I like to also use words like “strike” and “pierce” (mostly for when someone is impaled XD).

And yes, emotional scenes are hard for me because they turn out so sappy, LOL.

Girl same XD Description is so hard for me to keep up with

I know right! I actually have one or two emotional scenes I’m a bit proud of since they’re better than I remembered. But there are some others where I just scrawled ‘Melodrama!! Rewrite’ all over it. Some of my other editing notes are: ‘Boo! Pick a theme’ (I had literally three themes in one chapter.) and ‘No. Nononono. Rewrite’. 😂XD

Hmm… my favorite character to write about would probably either be Penny or Danny (one of the other main characters). Penny because snarky characters are so fun to write, LOL.

Snarky characters are the best!

And Danny because, and this is going to sound terrible, but because I enjoy writing broken characters. I gave Danny a rough life (mostly a traumatizing childhood), and I’m writing a short excerpt thing that I’m going to put in my second book about him and his significant other, and I like to get inside his broken mind. That sounds so evil, but it’s true for me XD

I completely agree! I have a character like that, (I can’t tell you his name, because of spoilersXD) He’s not exactly evil, but he’s certainly far from good. He’s very interesting😂 he’s actually trying to take over the series. I really like writing about him!

My least favorite… I don’t know if I really have a least favorite character to write about. Sometimes writing from the male perspective is my least favorite because it’s so hard for me to think like a guy XD

I totally understand that! In my first book, I have three male POV chapters. (Each a different character.) It’s pretty hard, but I don’t think they’re that bad. I do prefer writing about girls😂

 but I have written for guys before, and I think I give them too many emotions to be honest XD But that’s just my opinion.

Hmm, this isn’t my strong point, but I’ll give you my opinion. I’ve never read a male POV that I thought: “Oh, this isn’t convincing, he has too many emotions.” Actually, I’ve always found the opposite. If they don’t have emotions, they seem slightly robotic. My favorite male POV books are the Ranger’s Apprentice and Brotherband series, and the main characters are pretty emotional. I think they’re actually easier to connect to because of it. For example: In “Ranger’s Apprentice”, the MC, Will, cries in almost every book. Often more than once. It feels quite natural and I like Will better for it.

I always struggle with balancing it, though XD. I think it really depends on the character, for example, Will is quite soft-hearted, so he’s more emotional than some of the others. So if you have a really distant/reserved character (either male or female) you don’t have to write them super emotionally. Something that works for me is giving them some sort of tic when they’re trying to hide an emotion. E.G. rubbing a birthmark/scar, biting their lip, tapping with their fingers, anything like that. I’ve found it lets your readers know they’re trying to hide something.

Hope that was helpful😅

Hmm, I always think of Liorah when I listen to “Fight on, fighter” by For King& Country. Somehow, it just works😂