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For me it’s like “I know four people with this name” and to you it’s more like “How are you supposed to pronounce this eldritch nonsense? Man, I wish they’d kept “Joke” as a name. It’s not pronounced like that, but that’s how it’s spelled and it’s a common girl’s name

😂 Yeah, differences in cultures and languages are always hilarious like that.

Which part of your book are you looking forward to writing most? Do you have a specific character, setting, or plot point you really want to write?

Oh there are so many. A few for book one are a several of the big confrontation scenes,  writing the MC’s arc, developing a friendship, writing a house fight, and writing the climax.

That’s a bit longer than TTD, wasn’t it? I think TTD was around 150k.

TTD was approixmately 170k, and this one will be around that, so yes, a tad longer probably.

I’m planning for *just* 100k words, but I’ll probably go over again

That’s a good length. Most popular YAish stuff is around that 100k-150k mark.

Your formatting isn’t standard, which isn’t a huge issue but it is something to note if you plan to publish. Standard formatting is 12-point Times New Roman, double-spaced. I’m not sure about the margins, but you can find it online.

Yep, I believe I corrected it in my current WIP.

Also, you don’t punctuate dialogue properly and you don’t split paragraphs up enough. It’s just a couple basic rules to look up, after about ten thousand words it becomes second nature, but it will make it a whole lot easier to read.

I discovered a couple things that I was doing wrong and am now doing them right in my current WIP, but in case I’m missing one, what main things specifically for dialogue?

For paragraphs, you have to split off whenever you introduce a new Time, Person Topic, or Place. Basically, whenever the camera shifts. And in introspection whenever it switches topics.

Yeah, I knew my paragraphs were too big, I’ll keep that in mind.

Aren’t I allowed to break up a paragraph even if the topic didn’t change? If it was getting too long for instance?

And you always split off whenever a person speaks. Dialogue always stands alone, not in the middle of introspection.

Hmm…I know it should’t be in the middle  of inspection (though I’m sure I did it several times in TTD), but can’t it be at the beginning or end of introspection?

Example from a published book:

“The Baptist trusts  him…” She shook here head and looked down to the shawl dragging in the sand at her feet. If the Baptist trusted Annan, then perhaps she had misjudged him. Never had she known the Baptist’s judgement to be wrong, and Lord William had lived by his faith in the man ’til the day he died.

That was all one paragraph like I wrote it there. Dialogue at the beginning, introspection in the same paragraph. I do that often, both in that way, and in reverse order. Thoughts?