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plz I need help.

15 hours ago
I'm gonna be honest, I just made this thread because I needed help and to help others if I can although I doubt I can. I just can't figure out how to do specific things like go back to the page you came from without the go back button in the top right so you can go back from a page than multiple pages lead to and the written explanations look like gibberish when I try to read them :( I already made and published my first story, A Broken Reality, but being harsh to myself and also honest it was kinda terrible and sucked a lot. I think it was a good idea, I'm just bad at this and ruined what could've been a great story. I didn't and don't even know how to space it well.

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15 hours ago
Yay :D maybe I can do this! I just figured out my original problem. In the existing page option for the links there's an previous page option that fixes that.

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15 hours ago
Ok

good talk

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15 hours ago
ty? That sounds... never mind

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15 hours ago
You're the one who wrote agent of order, right?

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15 hours ago
OMG, cool profile! That's a lot... lot... lot of trophies. At least the most I've seen on a profile.

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15 hours ago
You'll find this community is very supportive.

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15 hours ago
yay :)

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15 hours ago
earlier I was gonna read shadow of a god king or whatever the title was again but I stopped before starting when I saw the maturity level. Why are there so many of them? meh, guess people are people.

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15 hours ago
How can you raise a variable if you just get onto a page and not just if you use a link (if it's possible)? Never mind... I think I figured it out.

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15 hours ago

I mean I would say Game of Thrones is better than, say, Percy Jackson & the Olympians. More mature = more conflict for the protagonist to overcome = more sweeter victory. Also, you're allowed to have more realistic villains and trials for your characters, and often times realism enhances the struggle for the progatonists.

But of course, this is a personal preference. Sometimes you can have a great story without getting too mature. Harry Potter for example (although there are certainly some dark themes there). But I really love the show The Magicians, which is kind of a grown up version of Harry Potter. All personal preference, again. But these are some of the reasons someone might want a more mature story.

EDIT: if you're pretty young I would not recommend reading my story. It's not really kid friendly and has some distressing stuff in it. In fact, I'm pretty sure all my stuff does. Except the dragon-dick joke story, but that's obviously not appropriate for a kid either.

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14 hours ago
oh, well I don't like them very much and I can get a bit embarrassed about it sometimes. It's just my opinion, I like less mature things.

EDIT: (and I'm a kid, but I still like less mature things than my peers)

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14 hours ago
I know I should probably be patient but I'm kinda waiting for the 2nd person to rate my first story even if it isn't that good, the only person who did so far was a friend.

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14 hours ago
Also, for my 2nd story I thought I started out strong but it quickly got worse. I don't have enough text, but I don't know what to add. It's also at a rate that I think is going to quickly get boring, and I don't know what to do about that either *sigh* I really got to work on my skill

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14 hours ago
And what are EXP points used for? are they just numbers there?

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14 hours ago

did you know you can edit your previous post if no one's responded to it

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14 hours ago
XD Yummyfood left a comment on my A Broken Reality that I found halarius.

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14 hours ago
oh... ty

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11 hours ago
You have the most important thing required of an author in my completely unqualified opinion: imagination. Another good thing is a willingness to try to describe the scene. Some authors here skip that entirely.

What you need to work on is the technical aspects of writing itself. Better use of paragraphs, keeping points of view consistent and rational, etc.

But creativity is already good, so keep nurturing that part of your writing toolbag.

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12 hours ago

Did the Magicians get better after awhile? I watched a few episodes back in '22, but I sorta got the sense the writers didn't have a clear idea as to where things were going. Maybe I was wrong though if you're comparing it to Harry Potter, which I'd say is pretty cohesive.

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12 hours ago

Is that the show where some dude got repeatedly raped by a pedo author so he's trying to destroy the world and only a group of young magicians that apparently all have sex with each other at some point can stop him?

Oh and some other girls get raped by a trickster god or something.

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12 hours ago
Yeah that's the one.

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12 hours ago
I mean it's the same magic school trope. More Necromancer's early portion than Harry Potter though.