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Thoughts on a Fantasy blurb I wrote. Urgent!!
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I don't think this blurb works, unfortunately. The main problem for me is that the writing around the emotions is very awkward, which promises the same awkward writing for the rest of the book. "Anxiety, fear, and loneliness hit Rye" doesn't tell us anything about where the emotions are coming from. What's making him apprehensive about meeting his father?The writing in general also feels a bit awkward. For example "the 1990s of the United States of America" is 8 words when "1990s USA" works just as well. I also have absolutely no idea what "several reservations of ancient civilizations" is meant to mean, nor "paranormal characters". Is there a magic system or something? Right now the blurb reads as contemporary with the exception of this.
This blurb also has the problem of not being clear what the plot is exactly about. What makes Rye go meet his father? What stands in his way from doing that? Why doesn't he just go take a plane there? If the main climax is meeting his father, what does the journey there have anything to do with it?
Hope this all helps!
-Author 56
That's the thing. The author didn't give a comprehensive synopsis. I wrote based on what was given to me. I did ask the same questions you did about the plot, what the real aim was an all that. This is supposed to be urban fantasy, so yeah.The part with anxiety and loneliness explains his feelings of leaving his comfort zone? Something like that. That part has nothing to do with him meeting his father.
I do admit to my awkward writing tho. I can see how off it all is.


"In the early 1900s in the United States of America, Rye Nelson is content with a life of peace and solitude with his grandfather, until he’s forced out of his bubble and sent on a mission to find a father he has no intentions of meeting. Anxiety, fear and loneliness hit Rye once he steps into a world so familiar, yet so strange, and he barely hangs onto his sanity. Then, he crashes into Red, the leader of the Scarecrow biker gang.
Another wave of conflicting emotions engulf him when he’s trapped in their base with little to no freewill. As luck may have it, his stay with the gang opens up a new world of friendship, companionship and adventures as Rye begins to see the brighter sides to his stay with the gang. Red and the Scarecrow gang join Rye on his quest to find his father, and as they go, they find solace in several reservations of ancient civilizations and paranormal characters along the way. That is, until they stumble upon the devil in question.
Will Rye welcome his father with open arms and accept him as part of his life, or will Rye turn his back on him, just as the man had done years earlier, and return to his comfort zone, the same naive, spineless young man he was before he left?"
Please I need the feedback urgently.