My Advice On Stories - Comments

Electric Goat: Now that I do agree with, but when a writer does that every time the character wakes up, it gets annoying, you know? But I do understand what you're saying because that is a good way to describe how a character looks.

druscilla's moon.: Then you don't have to use the names either. Example:
"Yes," Ryan grinned.
"No," the now pouting boy said, crossing his arms over his chest.
"Yes," the boys lover repeated, smirking coyly.
Tada (:

Even with changing the "said" the names get redundant after awhile.

I agree with most all of this.

But I do think that sometimes it fits to go through the morning routine, when first inrtoducing the characters appearance. I use that a lot to inform people of how my main character looks.

But you don't necessarily always have to say "Ryan said, Brendon said."
Example:
"Yes," Ryan grinned.
"No," Brendon crossed his arms and puckered his lips.
"Yes," Ryan repeated, smirking as he watched his lover pout.

Catch my drift?
And I didn't say it needed to be there all the time. I said almost always. I understand that sometimes it's unneeded, I even said that.
Thank you for reading carefully (:

I don't agree with the fifth one. I think it should happen a lot of the time, but not necessarily all of the time. And it's difficult when you write slash because you can't do he said/she said. You'd have to repeat the names over and over and over and over.
"Yes," Ryan said.
"No," Brendon said.
"Yes," Ryan said.

i agree
sad to say that i've done all of these.....A LOT though
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I agree with you. It's completely true.

I agree, especially for the fourth one.
Like really? People write a whole freakin' paragraph about what the shirt looks like. Come on.

I will admit that I demand comments quite often. I really can't help myself. I get extremely discouraged when people don't comment, because it makes me worry they don't like the new chapters (especially when I normally get twenty or so comments on an update when I don't ask and then on the next chapter I get like two). So, I make them tell me if they like it or not. I suppose it's slightly selfish, but to become a better writer, feedback is really important.

I agree. I really think people need to realize that they can ask for a beta. If they know they can't spell things correctly or that their grammar sucks, it just takes a few posts to get a beta. Most of the time someone's willing if they'd just post a journal or post it on their author's note at the end of a chapter.

I agree with you.

I hate when authors demand comments, especially when their story isn't that good.

I've done it before, but now I just care about whether or not people actually subscribe; I don't really care about comments anymore. :D

I agree 100%.
I've found so many stories with amazing plots, but their story doesn't make sense and has bad grammar. And you give them advice on how to fix it, but they don't listen.

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Nicely said.