@@ZekeTE125 the dedication is unmatched! Thank you for coming back and saying so. It’s by far one of my favorite shows. Thanks for watching and for the comment!
I think it is easier to answer, if the writing is clear or not. I usually write a chapter and let it rest a few days while I continue writing. Then I go back and reread the chapter and I usually find a lot of minor details which could have been written better. [Although, I feel the improvement since I started writing, I feel need to change less nowadays] The hard part is, if it is interesting. I mean, sure my sentences are not sort nor long. When I feel like even I cannot follow the logic of the sentence I break it up and such. Yet, I still cannot tell, if my writing is interesting at all or boring. For me it is interesting, but does that also mean it is for others too? I don't know.
I’m writing a bunch of notes to help me write a fiction novel, and this was a really helpful video! You helped pinpoint my two biggest problems for my intro, and the pacing is already infinitely better; thank you! The few characters thing was the most helpful. My story has 13 core characters, and I was confused on how to do anything. You made me realize that I don’t have to do everything, some characters can have less focus than others, even if they are equally important!
I don't even know, if my pacing is right... I know though, that my pace changes are often abrupt and kinda unexpected. Often for chapters, there are only small blips and quick releases in tension [if there is any] then almost out of nowhere shit hits the fan. And then the characters desperatly trying to extinct the fires of the disaster at hand which noone should face... That sort of thing. Apparently, it creates tenson and a suffocating atmoshpere. Sooner or later every small hints I give feels like a foreshadowing of life threatening situations and then nothing happens. Something like that. At least, that's what my wife says.
I went with the "afterlife is worse than death" theme in my book. Mostly due to the fact that I write a fantasy and the main cast can be revieved. So I wanted to make death something which they avoid at all cost. The same time life is taking a heavy toll on them [so much so, that one of the main character's intruduction scene is a commit die attempt]. So they stuck in between the choice of "I live and do terrible things for the sake of living or die and suffer even more." Although, in the end they created their own twisted paradise where everyone can live in their twisted happiness. Life can be horrifying, but you need to find a way to enjoy it.
