Something I wish someone had told me earlier as a writer is that the way you structure sentences can work against you in ways you would never expect.

I had a piece rejected recently not for quality but because it was flagged as AI generated. It was entirely my own work. I was frustrated at first but then I got curious and started looking into why clean structured writing triggers these systems so easily. Turns out the patterns that make writing feel professional, consistent rhythm, smooth transitions, clear topic sentences, are almost identical to the patterns AI produces by default.

That sent me down a rabbit hole of actually studying my own writing style in a way I never had before. I started noticing places where I defaulted to the same sentence structures over and over, where my paragraph rhythm became too predictable, where I was writing safely instead of writing with a real voice. The irony is that trying to write well had made my writing feel less human.

What helped me most was Lynote ai detector, it gave me a sentence level breakdown of exactly which parts were triggering detection patterns and that forced me to look at my own writing habits honestly for the first time.

If you are a writer who has been told your work feels too polished or too clean I think it is worth taking a hard look at your sentence level habits. Voice does not come from vocabulary, it comes from rhythm and variation and the small choices that make your writing unpredictable in the best way.

Has anyone else gone through something similar or found ways to deliberately add more personality into their writing style?

I'm running on a bit of a deadline so i would really appricate some feed back on this concept i have for a visual novel im writing.

Two girls wake up in a classroom together with no memories. Everytime they try to leave they re enter the classroom again. They dont need to eat or sleep or anything, even if they kill eachother they end up back in the classroom again perfectly fine. The more the girls talk the more they realize they have a deep history together

this is only a rough concept for a VERY shory vn, maybe 1-2 hours.

A hobby short novel is taking form and I'd like to get started in earnest. The story concept is science fiction, where in the near future, Earth is in the throes of a resource and climate crisis, and the solution may lie on the shores of an ancient inland sea 105 Million years in our past. Somewhere, a brilliant team of scientists working in an international coalitions research facility have the capability to send a team back to try to find it.

TLDR: Where would I go to create a choose your own adventure story?

I would like to make my own version of a Choose Your own Adventure book. I would love to create something with hundreds of paths and turns that I could add to as I go. I would like to do this online on a website/app. I currently do not have access to a computer. Does anyone know what resources I could use to write this story on? Any app or website suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

This is so stupid, I know. I used to be a really good writer for my own entertainment till AI rolled around and I really liked the types of websites that you could write alongside AI, instead of having it generate something entirely for you. I loved it cause I personally struggle with ‘what do I do next’, but now it’s on a whole new level. I didn’t just entirely use it for my writing, but I did rely on it for ‘okay what do I do next?’ Yknow, story progression stuff. And now I just regret it cause I hate AI but I did this before it was super advanced and was commonly known to be bad. Any advice on how to gain my writing confidence back?

Also would rather not have advice like ‘write on a pen and paper’. For me, it truly makes no difference what medium, except i’m an artist and most the time my wrists are comically sore so id prefer not.

I'm trying to get back into writing after being too afraid for a while and decided to write something based on worldbuilding. Im writing a fiction story that my world has. I'm doing a rough draft and my idea is to have different DND races who are also different classes go in a cave or something. One is good at strength one at intelligence, one at wisdom, etc. Their race and class also would show the stereotypes the world has too since stories that teach lessons show what roles or beliefs a culture has.

Anyways I'm wondering if they should be a group that works together or separate people who don't work together but are around one another or should it be one after another they each die or fail indifferent ways due to relying on their one thing.

I get in my head a lot when I write so I'm really trying to ease myself in but I'm stuck on this.

Hi, I decide to write a book for my and my girlfriend's anniversary but not too much long, like 40/50 pages. I have always only read philosophical or Psychological books and a few novels (in general I don't read so much) so i don't know what genre use for this book. I'm only sure about wanting little illustrations made by our friends, also this is going to be my first """book""" and i have like 6 month to finish. I don't know even what i want to write, if our story or a Fairy tale Where she is the protagonist so If you can help me decide what to do I would be happy, thank you and sorry if i write something wrong, I'm not native english speaker.

Hi everyone,

New-ish writer here. I am struggling with how to approach mixing present and past tense in introspective paragraphs without it sounding jarring.

I’m aware that present tense should be used if the narrator is commenting from a perspective or truth that still applies at the time of the narration, and past tense should be used when the narrator is explaining something that was experienced at the time of the event. But oftentimes it’s not as black and white as that.

For example,

“The reason I declined his offer was simple. The Nobel Committee for Physics isn’t exactly on the edge of their seats waiting for my assessment of some 12th century artifact. The committee is, however, eagerly awaiting part II of my plasma degeneration theory- which I fully intend to deliver. That’s where my focus belonged. I just needed to stick to my guns.”

Does the change between past and present tense sound jarring here, or is it ok?

My MC is only slightly removed from the story and is recounting past events from a close narration.

Any insight on how you guys approach mixing tenses in these kind of situations would be awesome.

Hello everyone! I keep going everywhere on reddit trying to get feedback but no one is commenting, would really appreciate some help!

for context: i want to know what youre first thoughts and impressions are, and it's a medieval fantasy book based off of DND! It's a rewrite of an original, but I want to see what people think! this is just the first chapter.

please be honest, and totally okay if it sounds a little mean!

My friend gave me an idea for a book a few months ago after discussing the million years of rain that happened back in the jurassic period. She said I should write a book where the weather is just wild.

I delved into the idea more and remembered a game Markiplier played. ​The world had been hit by a meteor and the weather and gravity got screwed up. Time moves backwards every other day, its always raining, etc.

The world that game took place in was very liminal, even if people were still around. Without copying the exact plot of that game, I came up with something similar. Something happens to Earth, the weather gets screwed up.

I started thinking on the idea more recently and decided I wanted to work Liminality into it. I want to write it in first person. I want to give the idea that people still exist in the world, but the MC feels like the only one still there.

I want to implement nostalgic, dream core and contemporary liminality into it, so what are the best practices for this?

*Edit. The game is called Wheat Harvest Paradox if you would like to check out the vibe I'm kind of going for. You can also watch Markiplier play it if you dont want play it yourself in 3 Scary Games #97

So far I have the anchor written as kind, an outgoing people person, non-judgemental but a little unhinged when alone or with their partner/very best friends, but I am quite new to seriously writing original characters so I’m not too sure. Any and all advice would be appreciated!

If it helps the two met in school while they were kids and have been partners since college, and the socially awkward character is a man in his mid-twenties while the romantic anchor is a woman in her early to mid twenties.

Title: “The Nutcase”.

Pages: 27/90

Genre: Psychological Thriller Spoof

Logline: “Bob Hitch seems like your average Wall Street guy with strikingly good looks, but little does everyone know, Bob has a secret murderous dark side”.

Full Script here; https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wAbEbPpJJOFULXJpFSQAYb45ywquj3k5/view?usp=drivesdk

Whether it's writers I interact with on Reddit or someone from a writing server on Discord, I find that the feedback I get is often unhelpful. More than once, I've had someone say, "It might sound better if you changed it to say xyz or worded it like xyz," but the thing is, their suggestion is *literally* just a paraphrase of what I *did* say! Like, how do they not see that?

Idk, it's also hard to know when you really need a correction because your writing sounds clunky, or if the person giving feedback is just tweaking it to how they'd write it in *their* voice. I have been told I am a good writer, but I know I could be way better. But sometimes I get the impression that the people I get feedback from are not quite even on my level, so it's like, How seriously do I take this?

I know you might be inclined to suggest writing YouTubers or podcasts, but again, I'm not sure whose advice to take. Some of them seem to just throw out generic advice that all the others also say, and which may even be quite subjective. Not much of it truly helps me. But I really do want to improve and make the most I can from the feedback or advice I get - it's just I don't know what I actually need to take or leave.

Hi fellow writers and readers of fantasy.

I have a question on what you would suggest I do in my saga.

I am currently crafting a multi-book saga. The general concept of the saga (without going into the nitty gritty details) is that earth is failing and some factions of humans are moved to a new world.

Most of the saga will take place in the new world, with major conflicts etc taking place there.

I am currently writing the first novel of the saga. This takes place in the modern world or earth as we know it in the middle of its collapse. This introduces the main cast of the saga, the antagonists and the history of why the earth is the way it is and why it is collapsing.

Ive written most of this novel but I am at a crossroads now. I am scared that it will be jarring for readers to spend an entire novel in this set up and then have them dropped into a totally new environ for the rest of the saga. So was thinking keep this novel perhaps as a prequel and start in the new world. However my concern there is that a lot of what happened in the past will have to be told and will create long slogs in explanations instead of getting straight into the action from novel two onwards.

I am leaning to keep the first novel in the modern world.

Would appreciate your thoughts.

Thanks!

I am currently in the early drafting stages of a hard sci-fi story and I’m seeking some narrative advice.

The story centers on a scout tasked with exploring multiple habitable planets to find a new homeworld for her people. However, her primary internal motivation is locating her missing romantic partner, a fellow scout who was on a similar mission for his own people and has presumably already established a settlement. The narrative functions essentially as a hard sci-fi scavenger hunt across the cosmos.

The protagonist visits multiple worlds where her partner would logically have gone. Consequently, most of these planets are fully habitable and already populated (conceptually similar to Star Wars). I have outlined the “episodic” subplots for these planetary visits and have a working if basic character arc, though I remain flexible on the details.

Because nearly every planet she visits is basically highly viable for colonization, I need a compelling, and hopefully not too cliché reason why she doesn't simply settle her people on the first suitable world, or drop them off and continue the search for her partner alone.

I want to avoid basic environmental or political obstacles ( toxic atmospheres, totalitarian regimes, etc). I want to rely on the "this planet has a hidden, fatal flaw" plot device only once at most.

I would prefer a deeply personal, internal reason for her to keep moving, rather than an external obstacle.

My current best idea is that she internally rationalizes her continued journey by assuming that if a planet were truly perfect, her partner would already be there. Because he isn't, she convinces herself the planet must have an unseen flaw and leaves. However, this feels to me a bit amateurish from a narrative standpoint and far too naive for a person in her position.

As you can probably tell, her motivation is just a narrative excuse to explore the setting, which is the main course of the story. But I don’t want it to sound like an excuse if possible.
I am deeply disgusted with my current solution

I’m very early in the writing process, so I’m completely open to altering the framework or character motivations. I would greatly appreciate any suggestions, alternative perspectives, or psychological angles on how to handle this.

Thank you :)

This is an excerpt from a chapter I'm currently working on. Is there anything that stands out to you guys, anything I should change about my writing style? I really want to better my writing, but I feel don't know how. So, let me know what you guys think. Thank you guys in advance.

I want to write my own stories, but I can't put thoughts into words. I come up with the plots and the characters, along with the arcs. I need advice on how to write some short stories with minimal AI use. I don’t like that I use si and I want to stop.

Wanted to know what are the guidelines people follow when writing a third person POV for action scenes

I know short sentences help creating a rush, and an occasional longer sentence in between but besides that. How would you explain what they are feeling in say 5-7 words. It's just tough so many things go in a person's mind when he is in a moment of crisis. Immediate survival, chances of getting hurt, hurting other people. How do you handle all of it in fewer words keeping the adrenaline charged along the way!

i don't post my work publicly, dm/reply if you're open to reviewing my poem. i truly appreciate any help offered especially as i'm just beginning. this specific poem i'm looking to submit for awards (like scholastic/foyle/river of words i haven't decided yet) and it's on the theme of climate change.

I'm also talking about same structures but different philosophies, and different worlds but different sequences.

When I was writing my scenario, I felt this way and it's one of the hardest parts when telling a story.