@rebekah-elizabeth Thank you for taking it well =P You do seem serious about writing, for whatever it’s worth.

I just want you to know I did the exact same over impulsive publishing thing. I published mine after a bunch of years of casual writing, without learning anything about doing it properly, let alone marketing. I put out a too-short book…[Read more]

@rebekah-elizabeth No worries regarding sounding like you’re in it for money. If you create a product, it’s not wrong to want money for it. It just means you value your time and effort.

Okay, there’s a lot to unpack here XD

1. Middle grade is an infamously difficult genre to publish in, especially for self pubbers. Middle grade books get read…

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@rebekah-elizabeth Hey, congrats on putting your work out there.

First and foremost, Amazon does advertise for you. As people buy your book it appears in the “other people also purchased” section of similar books. So long as you are serving a sub-genre faithfully, this is pretty good advertising. You are absolutely right that KDP ads are not a…[Read more]

I agree with Ella about the close repeats and formatting.

All I “know” of operating rooms comes from TV, so please be patient =P First, would anyone bother thinking or saying “ECG machine” instead of just “ECG?” Second, would the MC be required to formally call time of death, or is that just a TV thing?

Why is this the patient who gets to the…[Read more]

I’d love to see it! D&D actual plays are one of my favorite things in the world.

I’ll read and have critique by today or tomorrow.

For future reference I suggest posting a Google Drive or similar link so you can take your story down after you’ve received advice. You don’t have any ability to delete or edit an SE post after a short initial period.

Yay, you got it working.

First, know that most readers skip prologues. You can find editors all over the place discouraging their use, and any story publishing site like Wattpad on which you can see chapter views will show you first chapters tend to have way more views than prologues.

So a prologue shouldn’t be a hook. That’s what covers,…[Read more]

This file isn’t viewable. It directs the clicker to “Prologue.docx” in their own personal Dropbox folder, not your file. You’ll want to right click on the file in Windows and select “copy Dropbox link,” and then share that. Assuming you’re on Windows. Otherwise you can use the Dropbox website to create a sharable link.

@beth20 Check out this discussion we had about it in February.

I fully disagree that a story requires a moral message to glorify God.

1 Corinthians 10: 23-31 is the classic passage describing our freedom and responsibility as Christians. All things are permitted, if they’re not innately unholy. It is even permitted to eat meat sacrificed to idols, so long as we have no personal belief that it’s…[Read more]