Recent content by Rivyenphx

I wanted to send you guys a huge thank you for your honest and great advice. I feel that this has given me a renewed sense of purpose in my pursuit for publishing. Thank you for the great sites which I bookmarked already. I have looked up other forums and have found other comments from...

I am writing this with sincerity; not a tongue-in-cheek critique or a blazing judgment on the world today. I am writing this as I am really disheartened by what I have encountered so far in my first odyssey into writing and publishing a novel. It has taken two years, but I have completed my...

Thanks guys! I like both of your suggestions very much!

I have recently completed my second draft of my novel and I am at the point where I am wanting friends/family to review it and give me their opinion. But I also want more than "I enjoyed it." I am wanting to create a simple critique form -- something like "Who was your favorite character...

Thanks everyone for their input! I can see ways now to improve the work without necessarily finding an actual word to replace "he" or "him". And I agree that since my work is NOT a historical piece, I can use contractions as long as I am consistent through the work. This has been very...

I know that this may sound pretty foolish, but I have a bit of a dilemma: in my current project, someone pointed out that I am using "he" "him" "his" often... too much according to them. But what is the remedy for that? I have seen other works (published) that use "I" in almost every sentence...