My other writing group (yes, I've been seeing other people )
I knew you never loved us...
It's not you, it's me. I only show it to them so I can make it good enough for you to see it. Or something...
My only question is... what does "DR" stand for? Haha.
Doctor of course.
No, actually I haven't found a title I really liked for this piece yet, so I am very tentatively calling it The Demon's Rise. But if anyone has any suggestions as we go....
I do like The Demon's Rise, but I'll keep an eye out for potential titles, for sure!
One idea: "Dr Pepper". Lol.
Umm... maybe. If it wasn't for that whole copyright issue, definitely.
DR probably isn't too terrible, but I'm afraid that it would, again, be misleading. It's a major plot point, but it may get people thinking the book is darker than it actually is with all its fairytale/epic fantasy nonsense. Really, I think I may just be too early in the writing process for me to know for sure.
I like what you've done with this prologue--it looks like it's going to be another one of those tired "the gods explain the creation of the world" sort of thing, and instead we get actual people and character development. Nice twist there.
Do you think that may be the reason you had trouble getting into it? I was trying to be creative with it, and maybe condensing some more of the telliness in the beginning will help, but I don't want to scare away ALL the potential readers. Just most of them with my strange elf fetishes.
Please tell me if you can think of anything specific!
You know... You're probably wise to target this at a younger audience. Seems you're less likely to get dissidents complaining about how they don't like elves that way.
Yeah, that's the main reason I go to my 'other' writing group. Most of them write for middle grade or YA and I'm hoping that by balancing out all of your wonderful advice, I can fit it in with the more 'transition to fantasy' type books. We'll see. I may just end up annoying you both.
I didn't really have any major problems with anything, other than that I would like to know more definitely what the specialities are. It's all very well to state (once) that Pathora is the Goddess of Mercy, her brother is the God of Valor, and his partner the Queen of the Fairies, but what are the others? You mention them and that they have followers and temples, but not what they stand for. Even if you're going to introduce these concepts later on in the real story, there's not harm in putting it in the prologue, too. It's just giving the reader a little more information they can use later on to think they're smarter than the characters.
Because of the other comments, I hesitate to add more detail at this point, but I do have a chart in my notes that categorizes all of them that I may want to put with the prologue; like some books have maps or whatever. Do you guys want to see it with the next submit? Either way, I plan on going over it again in more detail at least once more in the first few chapters as it becomes important.
I love that you seem to be interest though. And this:
I really liked the ending sentence. I wonder if she'll get it/him.
because that is what I main point of this all right now.
Yea!Thank you guys so much!