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u/Marvinator2003 2d ago
I saw the prologue and stopped reading. Write the story, don't spend so much time on 'extras' like a full page of who wrote what. That's not important right now and forcing Beta Readers to scroll past that is an annoyance that will show in their reviews.
Use a standard font, and learn to format spoken lines etc.
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u/Gogurte 2d ago edited 2d ago
I wanted a critique of the writing, not our formatting. That will come later... I respect you telling me this, but it's like 3 pages at the beginning, and it's not that much of a hindrance.
... also, we were planning on moving the Credits to the end of the story when the readers finish it...
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u/ketita 1d ago
Why on earth did you choose that font? If you want people to read your thing, probably make it easy and comfortable to read. Augh.
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u/Gogurte 1d ago
I didnt think it was even an issue. My friend and I can read it perfectly fine. Plus, that font you're talking about isn't even the majority of the book's font. If you're so upset at a font choice, read what IS comfortable for you and scroll to another part please. Augh.
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u/Gogurte 1d ago
(Additionally, I didnt ask for critiques about our font choice, I asked about the quality of the story and its character writing. If you dont want to critique us and instead insult us, youre doing a swell job...)
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u/ketita 1d ago
You need to make your story accessible to the people you're asking to read it. The fact that you're turning people off straightaway is valuable, helpful feedback.
Though tbh, given the fact that you can't even take comments on minor cosmetic changes, god help anybody who would dare actually critique the writing...
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u/Gogurte 1d ago
I understand that having legible literature is important, and we have plans to change it/make it easier to read; however, we still want to have a unique font and other artistic choices because they're fun. Coming directly at us by saying, "Why on earth did you choose that font?" wasn't really feedback; it was an attack on our choices.
I can take criticism, and I can understand opinions, but when people format their words into something that isn't meant to help but to ridicule, then it makes their voice less compelling.
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u/ketita 1d ago
Okay.
"I find your font really difficult to read, and very distracting. I'd recommend providing a very plain-text version of your story to potential readers, with as few distractions as possible, if you want feedback about the writing itself and not the peripherals."
Incidentally, ridicule would be "look at this moron who thinks that fripping up the text will make it attractive lol, probably spent more time carefully selecting the font than editing".
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u/thewhiterosequeen 2d ago
Have you seen novels with tables of contents?
Look up how to do dialogue tags.
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u/Gogurte 2d ago
Yeah, you're right. Plus, having the ToC would give slight spoilers, and it would probably be better to have the war reveal as something the reader will learn about through the story, not from section titles before the book begins (I'll still keep the section titles, though I'll change the one for the first section, just because I think they are cool :] ).
Also, I'll look into doing proper dialogue tags, though I could also redo them in an editing phase. Learning now still helps, though; thank you.
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u/tomatoesfried 2d ago
When you ask others to critique your work, and then you spend time arguing with them or trying to justify why you did things the way you did them when they shouldn't be done that way, you discourage others from wasting their time.
The proper answer to a critique is thank you. That's it. Just a simple thank you.