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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy
Hi. To be honest, grammar check in MS Word is not a good substitute for an editor. Yes, it will make every sentence correct. But it cannot determine if you used the proper word or if the sentence actually makes sense.
Now why is it so important to put up two chapters a week? Especially when you know they are not that good. That is doing you more harm than good.
Looks like I am adopting new authors again.
I didn't bother looking at your story because just from your description, it looks like it won't make much sense.
So now before I invest my time, I have a quick question. What kind of writer do you want to be?
And are you willing to listen to feedback?
MS Grammar and Spell check are more for proofreading than editing.
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Thank you for your feedback
I will try to answer as many of your questions as I can:
1 - Why is it so important to me to get two chapters out per week, especially when I know they aren't that great?
Well, to premise, the website my novel is posted on
[Link deleted - MODERATOR] is a little bit of an anomaly. The site gets a lot of traffic, but success is usually defined by:
a. how well you write
b. how fast you can get new content out
c. how interesting your topic is
All of that said, a lot of people on that site actually post daily, but two a week is about all I can manage.
Also, I really don't consider my chapters to be all that bad. The post above yours is the first to really slam the grammar (the worst I had heard before is minor errors, and from what I've seen I tend to agree with that.) Most feedback I've gotten (some of it being the quotes from the first post in this thread) has been positive.
2 - What kind of writer do I want to be?
I want to be the best writer I can be. It's my dream to write for a living one day for a long long time, and I've been writing fiction (this is my first posted work) for a little over 4 years. At the risk of sounding ignorant, I think I'm fairly good, but I also know that I have plenty of room for improvement.
3 -
Am I willing to listen to feedback?
I'm more than willing to take feedback, both good and bad, and I try to apply what I learn from it whenever I can.
4 -
Why do I publish online for free?
I'm assuming by that you mean instead of publishing traditionally, or self publishing. Honestly? I can't afford it
I would love to publish The Steel Harvest as both an e-book and a physical book one day, but the unfortunate truth is as greenthumb adult with a part time job and lots of schooling, I have little to no budget for publishing, editing, etc...
So there you have it. I hope this helps. Again, I greatly appreciate you taking the time to respond. If there's anything else you'd like to know, I'm more than happy to help.
P.S. I'm sorry to hear my synopsis turned you off from my fiction
any tips? When I wrote it, it was more of a vague synopsis for the entire series (I promise it has a much more cohesive plot that them just wandering around). Maybe I should go back and rethink it...