Writing Advice Thread

Darc_Requiem · April 28, 2020

Technically done, 26 Chapters 133507 words. This is pending proofreading/editing of course.

Darc_Requiem · June 23, 2020

Oh I guess I never posted the final word count here. 26 Chapters, an Epilogue, and 140,779 words. It came out to 301 pages in a standard 6"x9" format. I'm getting one copy printed for myself, I literally slapped together this cover with limited tools in like a half hour. BTW: That's a pseudonym and not my government name.

Edited June 23, 2020 by Darc_Requiem

misterBee · June 23, 2020

1 hour ago, Darc_Requiem said:

Oh I guess I never posted the final word count here. 26 Chapters, an Epilogue, and 140,779 words. It came out to 301 pages in a standard 6"x9" format. I'm getting one copy printed for myself, I literally slapped together this cover with limited tools in like a half hour. BTW: That's a pseudonym and not my government name.

Let me know if you would like some illustrations/art! I will try to accommodate when I have time.

Darc_Requiem · June 23, 2020

18 hours ago, misterBee said:

Let me know if you would like some illustrations/art! I will try to accommodate when I have time.

Appreciate it man. I never knew it was so cheap to get a book printed, I would have planned it out better. I was just messing around on the internet found out and just went for it when I saw the price. You can actually sell you book via Barnes & Noble. If you set up a vendor account. Not really trying to go there, but its cool for people who are.

Darc_Requiem · June 28, 2020

I'm glad I only put an order in for one print of the book. As I'm in the infancy of the follow-up I've been going back to the original to try to keep the narrative consistent as possible. I've got a few spelling errors that I've missed to despite going through the book to correct such issues. So I'm thinking in the future, I may gave a book four passes before getting a copy made. I actually tweaked my world map because of this as well. I altered a section of the east coast of Ehlesia and shifted the location of Vezetin Bay south. There is a major military action that takes place in my story that would not make much sense with the bays original location. It needed to be closer to the town of Quarus. This also makes my improvised cover inaccurate 🤣

Edited October 9, 2020 by Darc_Requiem

Darc_Requiem · July 11, 2020

My book came today. Surreal seeing what I wrote in an actual book.

Darc_Requiem · October 5, 2020

My mom really wants a copy of my book for some reason. The genre isn't even in her wheelhouse but I digress. I've gotten off my ass to work on the second editing pass. Having months in between my proofreads has been fruitful. I have three chapters (24,25, & 26) and the epilogue left but damn man. I feel like I didn't catch anything the first time through. Since I can't sleep and don't want to edit at this hour. I fiddled with my cover and made it look less bootleg this time around. The shade of blue is actually consistent now. Plus it looks a bit cleaner. I'll probably go with a red on black look for the next books cover...which probably won't be done until 2022.....or 2023.

Side Note: As I've said before, that name is a pseudonym. Given recent events, I'm glad I went that route.

Edit: Here is the original. It's pretty piss poor but I did just throw it together because I needed one to get a test copy printed.

Edited October 5, 2020 by Darc_Requiem

Disciple0fAnrky · October 5, 2020

Been giving this a lot of thought recently and concluded that for the type of story I want to convey I need to learn how to set a scene in a way that will more easily be adapted to animation. I think in order to do that it might be a good idea to learn about cinematography and directing as a whole. Anyone have any good sites for information for beginners in regards to that?