Non-native author? [Question]
sasa 09 06,2025
What do y'all think about stories where the author is writing a story about your culture/religion/country/etc when they also don't belong to it? Do you mostly look past it? Cringe? Do you like an outsider POV? Do you laugh at it? Is there anything that makes you love or hate a story from an author who is an outsider?
09 06,2025
pigglypoof
21 05,2025
Sometimes I'm just in awe of how well some ppl write. Like how did you so perfectly word all the thoughts in my head and add even more to it! Truly a gift.   1 reply
21 05,2025
The characters. I’m a character driven reader, so I don’t care about genre as much as I care about what the characters are doing. They could be awful, but they need to be interesting (at least to me).   reply
28 07,2024
I agree, Characters have to have understandable motives. Nothing is better than being able to agree or disagree with a character, it makes them seem more human. I also agree on pacing, it kills me how a lot of the things I read don't use their formats to effectively convey appropriate emotional timing or even comedic timing. But, I believe this is......   reply
28 07,2024
For me the top thing that makes a good story is consistent characters. Like if you're going to give me a boss as bitch keep them a boss as bitch around the love interest. Don't make them go stupid and useless cause the love interest is around. Consistent and logical thought process. Sometimes nonsense is thrown into stories to make them more inter......   reply
28 07,2024
I like stories that inherently have flaws in them. I don't think there are any perfect stories and honestly as long as the author really tried and the premise is interesting I'll probably like it. If the premise isn't interesting but its pacing is good, it's also fine. As long as it's balanced in the end, it's fine. Like a story might have terribl......   reply
28 07,2024
I only have 3 criteria for a story to be good for me or at least enough for me to finish reading it XD Either they have all three or they only meet one. 1. Visuals- I need the art style to be pleasing if it's a visual media plus the editing and visual effects. In writing, the characters should at least have one eye candy (quite shallow but sue me).......   reply
28 07,2024
1. Good Pacing 2. Well Written Characters (having depth, a feeling of originality, a feeling they’re actually alive, etc.): be it a psychopath, a heinous criminal, a god, or the nicest person in the world, they can be whatever as long as they are well written 3. A concrete plot: whatever the plot is, it has to 1.(make sense (oh our god turned int......   reply
28 07,2024
Pacing. How the story got to its point needs to make sense. Step one, two, three etc etc. I don't want to be reading 3 chapters in and they've already divorced 6 times, tried to commit murder for money, and made up in chapter 1. Anytime a story is fast paced it just kills everything else. Like I'm not looking for slow burn or anything, I just wanna......   reply
28 07,2024
Yeah I agree, I don’t mind if these characters are evil or whatever. I want them to have a motive to do something good or bad. And I want them to have a personality it okay to change their personality slowly as they grow in the story. But nothing pisses me of than their personalities completely changing because they met their love interest like.......   reply
28 07,2024

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