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Heya!

I like the idea, but! 

I stopped reading after the Prologue, because this story is rife with rookie mistakes (which is completely normal btw, I presume this is one of your first works)

First of all, it desperately needs to be edited. Half of the text could be crossed out, no  problem. It's extremely verbose, reminding me of an apple tree that's never been pruned in its life. 

Watch out for the repetition of words: in the first few paragraphs, the word 'flesh' is being used about 5 times, and more later on. Moving on to the second page, same issues on a smaller scale: plead, pleas. "As usual, no one answers" would suffice. 'Pain' and 'void' also repeat a billion times, and not in an artistic way. Max 2 short pages accentuating the cycle of pain and nothingness  would be more than enough. Nobody wants to read the same thing over 10 pages, at least I'm sure I don't. :v 

There are other, small things: I can't remember verbatim, but there was a sentence  like "He did so and so to soften the edge of the gentle rebuke".  If the rebuke was gentle, there would be no edge to it to begin with, right? :D 

Don't take this the wrong way, your ideas are good, keep going! But I'd recommend reading one or two textbooks about writing to drill the basics into your head, such as Writing Fiction - the practical guide from New York's...  or Ben Bova : The craft of writing Sci-fi  (I can email you the latter) 

:x

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Hi,

thank you for the feedback! You are correct, it is basically my first work so rookie :D  I do agree the text needs editing, but self editing is a really hard thing as a beginner doing this for fun.

Thank you for the recommendations, and if you would like to send the book, please find the email above in the game description.

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Hey again, 

I sent you both, I hope you'll find them helpful! 

Otherwise you're on the right track. I mean, hey, you already started putting your work out there, most people would never! Just read, write and revise until you get a nosebleed as much as you can, and best of luck! ;x

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Thanks! I saw the email,  and will take a look when I have some time. 

Thank you for the encouragement as well. I do believe there is a famous quote of "the first draft just has to exist" or something like that.

I would consider all of this, even available to the public, a first draft :D