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Reviewer: alexg Signed starstarstarstarstar [Report This]
Date: February 19 2025 5:05 PM Title: Writing Plots (and other general advice)

An excellent summary of writing principles for a cohesive narrative. Though I've written a few things before, this is a great refresher on what to pay attention to as I continue. Outlines are indeed important, and I find them especially useful when I'm trying to fit new ideas into upcoming chapters. Dialog remains a challenge for me, and any specific tips to improve it would always be useful.

Also, thanks for your review of my story!



Author's Response:

Thanks for the review! Yeah, outlines are one of those things I really didn't appreciate when I was in high school, but gained a greater appreciation for later in college and as I started writing larger works, especially fiction. While they can help structure reports and essays in non-fiction, I find they're invaluable for setting things up and paying them off later to make a satisfying story. 

I'm currently writing two stories at once right now so I'm not sure when I'll next update this guide, but dialogue is one of the things I plan to touch upon. I'm not sure if I'll incorporate it into "flavoring your story" or give it a dedicated chapter to itself, but for what it's worth, I think the dialogue in Mega Laetitia is totally fine. Yes, it's a little simplistic, but I think that works well for your protagonist as she's overcome by lust and her primal instincts. I would even say the dialogue so far is very immersive in that regard. Flustered people in the midst of euphoria aren't exactly the wittiest of folks! You do a good job of changing her tone from her own perspective and that of the little people with the use of caps and I feel that the dialogue of minor characters has largely managed to facilitate the scenes where it's present. With that said, Mega Laetitia hits on a lot of tropes of the genre in all of the best ways. It's one of my favorite "classic gts rampage stories" and takes me back to my adolescence when I first started reading this stuff. Maybe I'm giving you too much credit and I'm wearing nostalgia glasses, but I've really enjoyed it. ;)

One thing I would stress with dialogue is that it's not merely spoken words; it's also the actions around the words. So consider what you are trying to impart to the reader and the tone of the scene. If you have a fast-paced action scene, give us the words quickly and with little flare so they have a minimal disruptive impact. Inversely, if you are trying to create a feeling of dread, give us vivid descriptions of what's going on around the spoken words to make the scene last longer and really immerse the reader while building suspense. I generally try to space out my reviews for stories, but since my last review was a little "short and sweet" I'll be happy to re-read your newest chapter (I already read it the day it came out XD) and give you more detailed feedback about what I feel you're doing well and also how it could be improved. That said, I still felt it was a five-star chapter and don't recall having any complaints. 

Also, if you want to have a bit more of a back-and-forth, you can find me on the GTSworld discord. I think you're already in there, so feel free to ping me (@Germanicus).

Reviewer: Tiny_T3 Signed starstarstarstarstar [Report This]
Date: January 13 2025 10:11 PM Title: Character Stories

This is so cool!! Ive always wanted to try writing some of my ideas but was too intimidated by it. Maybe this will finally put me in the right direction!

Author's Response:

I'm glad you liked it and hopefully you find it helpful if you take the leap into writing. I will be adding some new chapters eventually since I recognize that this advice predominately concerned setting up your story while skipping over how to actually write it, so future chapters should hopefully help in that regard. I've been very pleased by the responses I've gotten so far on the discord and I'm glad people are taking it well, since I was a little nervous that people would think I was just being a prick. 
If you have any other questions, comments, or concerns, feel free to leave them here. As mentioned in the story notes, I intend for these reviews to act more like a "comment section" than a conventional review list.

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