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Well I’m fairly confident they won’t be generic to me. xD

Which is exactly what makes it so funny XD 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?” XD I’m really glad the translator made that choice.

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 XD

Same here, I love all my characters before I’ve even written them. xD

Absolutely! I have the added benefit that I already know most of my characters, though I do have the addition of a shiny new POV that I haven’t written before! And he’s one of my favorite characters! That will be so much fun.

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?

Book one will probably be around 180k-200k. What about you?

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

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

Oh, there’s something I forgot to mention in my beta critique but that I did want to come back to.

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.

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.

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.

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

Just something to look at, I had a lot of trouble figuring it out throughout my first manuscript, I tended to make every line its own paragraph XD