Andres’s Comments (group member since Jul 29, 2020)

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Oh okay. Did you create the names of the demons yourself or did you get them from WoW Lore?

Tomas, just hit chapter 11. All the names are coming back to me lol. So far I haven't noticed any changes, at least, this feels as though I've read this all before.

Of course, your very welcome. I'm happy to review other genre's as well, I believe it makes me a more rounded writer.

I just finished my 2nd novel that was heavy around the romance genre and that had a tremendous impact on my outline for my 3rd novel. I feel more capable of including a romance into my novels now. Horror is another field I'm lacking. I'm happy to learn how to incite anxiety and anticipation into my reader.

Best of luck, keep in touch!

Awesome. I'm currently reading some work by Tomas but I'll let you know the status of my availability. Although, I'm not a horror writer if that matters to you.

Keep writing but let me know if someone was able to review your work so far.

you're on fire.

How many chapters have you currently written?

Okay, book is done. On to the next one =D!

https://www.amazon.com/King-Arthur-Lo...

Awesome, you got your own topic going. Just keep posting your chapters here. Don't feel bad if you don't see reviews posting up right away, everyone is working on their stuff and getting stuck in their own novels.

Drop in, here, let us know how your doing, keep active but don't let this pull you away from writing. If you get stuck let me know and I'll try to help you out as best as I can, if not, try to hit 10 chapters and I'll be happy to give you you're first peer review.

Alright. I did it.

https://www.amazon.com/King-Arthur-Lo...

Hi Aura, welcome!

Fantasy author, alright! Don't worry about the reviews for now your with the GODS. You can always go back and help out people that reviewed for you. Just keep writing. Try to write 10 chapters. Once you get that far I'm sure someone here would be happy to review it, if not myself and you will get a better review on the direction of your novel.

It's hard to review chapter by chapter, you only get pieces of a story and the chapters change so much with edits. But, if your stuck and can't get into 10 chapters just let me know and I'd be happy to read what you've written so far to help give you some ideas.

@Tomas.

Those Chinese crossbows were in the game Ages of Empires when I played it back in 2000. I believe they were called Chokunus or something along those lines.

The Romans and Greek were truly amazing. Roman Cement, The Antikythera mechanism, The Archimedes Heat-Ray, Flexible Glass, The Archimedes Screw.

The Incas were on the same level with their aqueducts, solar disaggregation (light to cut stone) techniques. Many of the ancient civilizations in the world had advanced calendars, roads, religions, education, science and astronomy. The human mind itself is the greatest tool ever given to the world. Just look at the Coral Castle in the USA.

Good news. My illustrator is feeling better and finishing the last two chapter artworks I needed. I'm going to go through the book formatting one last time and hopefully I'll publish late this week.

Yeah, why not. Doesn't Sanderson have a book where it is constantly snowing ash?

Volcanic eruption is no different. You want to get crazy, check out some of the weirdest wonders in the world. I think it has rained frogs.

@Daniela, nothing in particular. I'm also a fantasy writer and was interested in your story because of similar genre writing. I thought it would be nice to know the title of your story before I began getting into it.

Here's a link to TechRadar which talks about Microsoft Office alternatives,

https://www.techradar.com/news/best-m...

I hope that helps.

@Tomas,
1. I think it might be a cool world building tool if you had an endless day or night in your story. Like Thomas said, you could build the flora and fauna around that.
2. The 42 yr day and night might not work well unless you did some time travel where you character looped into endless day or night. HOWEVER, the transition time in between might be a pretty cool apocalyptic type, environmental "purge" type story.

Where mother nature adapts from an endless night to an endless day. All flora starts to die off as well as most fauna. The government has been prepping for such an event where while lying to their citizens. The people erupt into chaos not understanding why there is a light appearing in their sky. Violence breaks out across the cities as food shortages add to the increasing pandemic. The government locks itself down, allowing for the world to decimate the population.

It maybe hosts a lottery of breeders that will be mandated to live together. A city loving jock type workout /instapot youtube chef finds himself paired with an extremely intelligent horticultural farm loving woman. She's turned off by his ignorance and he's not attracted to her non implanted, bleached hair, and makeup-less attitude.

Daniela wrote: "I am writing a book of historical, fantasy and romance genres.
The story is about:
Seventeen-year-old Issia doesn't fit in the world she lives in. She looks and thinks differently than other peopl..."

Daniela, do you have a working title to your story?

Amy wrote: "Hello everyone! Today I am doing okay. I journaled and am hoping to pop into a live writing sprint tonight at 9pm EST as I continue to edit my novel. I think the one tonight is through Rhiannon Fut..."

I'm there with you Amy. In my third re-write I am making the main character a bit more asbergers. This was hard because in the first book the main character was witty and jesting often based a lot off my own personality. So when writing this non-joking, more serious character (think Drax from Guardians of the Galaxy). I write a good scene and realize its more the old character than the new character. Still haven't found that groove yet.

Never done a writing sprint. Sounds awesome though!

Thomas wrote: "Just noticed that Gathering Of Dedicated Scribblers got GODS for acronym. ^^"

LOL!

Coursera is a free course and its better than having taken nothing at all. It will help a new writer to determine what idea they may have a better advantage of writing about. It will give you basic principles in outlining a book to write and introduce you (possibly) to others attempting to do the same thing. Most of the problems we encounter with Coursera is not the course itself but rather with the students. They tend to flake off, they lack the discipline to continue and they do not participate enough to make a small group beneficial.

If you had absolutely no group, no way to gather feedback, then the random scribblings from other students would seem highly beneficial. When you have a stronger peer group the course seems to lack.

The only advantage in finishing the course is to finish the course. There is no publisher waiting at the end of the line. There is no fancy certificate. All there is to gain is your personal satisfaction. I finished the course, I can finish my novel. Most of my writing group never made it past the third chapter. The rest, maybe chapter 6.

What it does grant you is the ability to link a specific chapter on here so that another member might be able to pop in and connect to all your 20 chapters. Help you to organize your work a little bit until its ready for a full beta read.

I haven't used anything other than word. What are you currently using?