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Diary of a Bipolar Artist: https://www.wattpad.com/story/61512097-diary-of-a-bipolar-artist
The title is: Konoha High School.
Here is the link:
https://www.wattpad.com/story/8128438-konoha-high-school
Genre: Teen Fiction
Summary: Emma is ready to run, but does she know the consequences?
Being god's daughter isn't easy, especially when you have no memory of Heaven and think you're insane.
Emma is sent down to earth to stop the corruption, but is yet to find her powers. After trying to commit suicide, she decides to run away.
But you can't hide from God.
Link: https://www.wattpad.com/story/70071732-ready-to-run
User: utterly_compelling
Genre: Horror
Summary :
"Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters."
― Stephen King, The Shining
Laura, a rising star from New York lived her life in total oblivion. It wasn't the start of it all until she came inside the stunning and full of glamour hotel, Le Chateau de Pierre run by Elizabeth Caudelle, a lady crafted by hate and money.
She came inside with his co-movie star Gary, and both came inside by a sudden, without any plans.
Inside the devious hotel, Laura began seeing things and harassed by poltergeists roaming around the lodge.
While trying to unfold everything, she began seeing her family's rotten history that made her take a step to a level she doesn't find so typical and every move was detrimental.
What are the real 'horrors' inside? Is it the history? Seeing and hearing things that weren't there at all? or is it all just a show?
Don't. Ever. Take. A. Step. Inside.
It'll maul you to death.
A horror story including different realities including political, religious and personal phases of life.
Ready to take the key? Come and join us inside.
There is no turning back now.
Start the ride? Here! http://my.w.tt/UiNb/Q2DK3wamVt
user: aphrodosum
(also available at Penana!)
Genre: Humour and TeenFiction
Summary: THE DISNEY EFFECT:
The Disney Effect is the addiction of Walt movies where the victim suffers from the aftermath of first watching a Disney movie. Symptoms of the Disney Effect includes spoilt whining of not watching one each day, the off-tune sound of their voice once singing Disney songs, room dedication full of Disney posters, toys and drawing, and lastly, the quotation of Disney lines.
LINK: https://www.wattpad.com/story/20718665-the-disney-effect
Also available on Penana.
Genre: Adventure
Summary:
Rave woke up in a plain grass land in Minecraft World, he does not remember anything about what he's doing before he fallen asleep, but only his name. One thing he notice was he's holding a picture that is taken with his father and mother, as he doesn't care about what he does before he fallen asleep, then he build a house for a living.
He always had a strange dream about a man chased by a huge wave of zombies to the end of the world. His life is normal and happy, but only until a huge wave of zombies headed for his home with unknown reason, he actually lived in an area with all zombies cleared. He was led by a fairy as he ran with his head feeling like exploding, he apparently starting to remember what he experience before he fall asleep that day. Suddenly, a mysterious girl appeared before him in the woods who said she know all about him......
I am sorry I cannot give the link, because I don't know why that I cannot go on Wattpad! The Wi-Fi only works on others but not Wattpad and I am getting really annoyed of that. Sorry!
PS: I added DanTDM to the adventure of Rave! Fairies too. This book also available on Penana, but only chapter one. Read more chapters and PLEASE VOTE on Wattpad! Thankyou!
It would mean a lot to me if you read and support my entry on Wattpad. Help to spread the word about it a little bit. This work is the most emotional and reflective I've ever been as a writer. https://www.wattpad.com/story/75784917-the-a-side-wattys2016
Ive had this story idea swirling in my head fir over a year now and I've finally put pen to paper (or finger to keyboard as it were lol ) and got the first few chapters down of what I hope will be an epic story.
I'm only 4 chapters in so it wouldn't take long to read and would seriously appreciate it if anyone were to take a look at it x
So here goes:
Title: Redefining Madness
Genre: Mystery/Thriller
Summary:
M A D N E S S | Noun
- The state of having a serious mental illness.
- A detachment from reality.
- A state of wild or chaotic activity.
"It's a self-fulfilling prophecy. When too many people say you're mad, be it true or otherwise, you become it."
Analie Hale Mayworth. Second daughter of the most prestigious family in the country. The Mayworths pride themselves in their designer clothing, exquisite manor house and above all, their exorbitant parties.
But when the music ends, and the festivities come to a close, how much do we truly know about the Mayworths and the elusive three daughters?
Though their photographs are constantly splattered across the newspapers, knowledge of their personal life is much to be desired. A family filled to the brim of horrifying secrets. When Analie's step father takes his obsessions too far, he goes to extraordinary lengths to keep it hidden, at Analie's expense.
Ordered admittance to a psychiatric hospital under false pretenses, years of secrets begin to come undone. Soon enough, Analie's primary psychiatrist, Dr. Arien Lowell, starts to question the integrity of Analie's admittance. Will he be convinced that things truly are as they seem? Or will he see right through the tangled web of lies?
https://www.wattpad.com/story/74159514-redefining-madness
Also, because of a band that triggered the critical ideas in my head.
I'm not asking for much, just a feed back (what you think of the story and so on) and I'll be overjoyed, even if it's a complete criticism. :'>
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[Starset]
Lycas is disoriented; He hasn't fully recovered from what happened. And he's completely unaware of it. But Cine knows; she knew something is wrong about that, that she's determined to find out. And she's completely unaware that she's worried about him.
They've met because of an organization called, Inertia Organization. But even after a couple of years they still don't really know much about each other. Much less their circle of strange friends and their darker depth of history.
While Inertia Organization-- a clandestine emergency-services organization that subsides amassing conflicts in community or even country-wide, shortened as InerOrg-- isn't corrupt, they still have a very big dark secret. Seven certain individuals were involved in it.
And their enemy knows that the secret is hidden with them, just right beneath the confinements of the InerOrg base.
Until the events unfold, they won't know what befalls them.
Genre: Action, Mystery/Thriller, Fiction, Violence, Supernatural, (Attempt) Comedy, Dark Humour
(Contains (the usual) Violence and (tad bit) Profanity and some sparks of romance)
https://www.wattpad.com/story/75054639-%E3%80%8Estarset%E3%80%8F
Perhaps, try revising the blurb in the characters voice and leaving out what they wouldn't know.That might make the blurb more engaging and interest even those that don't read the grene you write in.
I would like to hear more of your opinion about the revision of my blurb. If you please point out what I should take out or leave in vague lines specifically, that would greatly help.
Update: The third thing is called a shoutline, another hook like this:
"It wasn’t that she wanted to live forever. She just didn’t want to die.” – Stealing Time (hook—heroine is dying, how will that be resolved?)
Okay, back to reading the article.
Update:
"Sometimes authors’ own words are the best tool to sell a book. Using lines from the manuscript gives readers a sense of what the book is like by showcasing the author’s voice."
The opening paragraph for The Hollow House by Janis Patterson:
“I decided to use the name Geraldine Brunton. It’s not the name I was born with, nor the name I married, but it will hide who I really am…and what I have done.”
Alright! I go read some more. What I need you to do is find a sentence or paragraph from your book that you just love that speeks to you, that's really gives a feeling for what your book is and shows your voice. Find one that hits you in the feels.
Looks like there are five steps not three. The next one is:
"End with conflict. The last line should leave them dying to read the book to learn how the story ends."
"Keep in mind that your goal is to make an emotional connection with the reader so they will want to be transported into your world. They do not need to know what happens in the book, they just need to know what makes it interesting."
"Use Hyperbole: Words like "never before", "incredible", "unimaginable" and "inconceivable" are powerful tools to spark curiosity."
Keep it short: Most blurbs are only between 100 and 150 words long.
Use short sentences: Readers are usually just skimming through text, so the easier your blurb is to read, the more enticing it will be. Long sentences won't grasp the attention of the reader as well as short sentences. Use white spacing to separate thoughts and make it look less like a solid block of text.
"Don't give away any spoilers - no matter how tempting. Secondly, be sure to stay away from clichés and overused phrases like "in a world of..." "
Several examples here:
http://www.blurb.com/blog/writing-blurbs-for-novels/
From the examples it needs to be in past tense and in a tight narrator style.
You go rewrite it a bit, then post it in here and then I'll tinker with it a bit. We'll go back and forth until your happy with it.
Anyways, yes, I did read your post and the article. It had helped, but my blurb is still not good enough in my point of view, but you can also be the judge.
Draft (with grammatical errors ignored):
The world of Lycas Heel seemed to be a never-ending loop of crestfallen revelations. Being part of a militia—the big break—is the only thing that keeps him going. But only to kill time and keep him diverted.
However, Cine Undrehart— his competent unshakeable partner— found his tepid demeanor a sort of an eye-sore that she has the tendency to slap him into shape even if it’s only for a temporary effect.
They’ve recently met in the organization where semi-soldiers like himself and his partner dwell to deal with some local issues as their ‘underhand mission’. A few awkward years wasn't enough to know much about each other; much less their group of strange friends and their darker depth of history.
But that is going to change as soon as they’ve been assigned to a refreshing chase-the-rabbit situation; they’ll be lured into a rabbit-hole that leads to disclosures, escapes, and most of all, constellations of unresolved peril.
To Lycas Heel, the stars are always in the same setting. It was a little too late for him to understand the message of their underlying pattern.
History will repeat itself. In Lycas’ case, his past will forever pursue him.
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The first paragraph is good for me, but the rest seemed out of balance. I'm still gathering for ideas, but for now, this is the best I can show you.
P.S: I'm losing connection soon, so I won't be replying to your post for a long time, like, months or so. If you have lost interest to continue this, that is just alright for me. I'm happy that you have supported me this far with this, so you have my sincere thousand thanks!
Also if you're a pc the DNS catchie might need to be flushed, to fix the connection.
On the pc download then run the program Ccleaner and Malware bites antivirus.
If your computer lets you download them that is. Keep trying until it does, when done restart your computer right away to save the changes.
If you are on mobile on a phone/tablet:
First clear out the cashe to free up what memory you can.
To do this:
Settings, tap storage, tap cache data and choose delete.
Uninstall every single app that you can live without. Sone apps ask for WAY too many permissions. Bad apps that ask for a long list of permissions should be viewed with suspicion! Especially if the want acess to your wifi.
Gerr!
Install first:
SpyWare Removal (Anti Spy) by: Keobenapps the icon is a gray shield with red lettering. Install it and run the app.
Don't put any other apps most are fakes that do nothing I had to install and uninstall lots of fake ones before finding this one. My phone was a mess ...(All better now!)
After restart your phone.
The network signal booster app I use: It is called: HSPA+ Tweeker
Now install: Super Cleaner - Boost & clean
Run it and clean out the junk.
Restart your phone/tablet again. Good Luck!
The SpyWare Removal has to be run first or none of the other apps will be able to help.
If you managed to run all those and still can't get anything to work it's time for a reset!
I'm going to assume it's hard as heck even replying so I'll post how:
In phone:
Settings > look for where it says personal then tap Backup and reset. Find Factory Data Reset scroll down and tap Reset Phone. I hope you had on the back up my data and automatic restore or this won't work. Anyway, do what it tells you, stay calm and when it restarts your phone be super patient. It will turn back on. This only will work if you have an android phone.
Why do all this? No signal strength for a internet company is so horrific that it won't work for months. That's not logical as they'd loose business fast! Something is seriously wrong with your pc/laptop or phone/tablet.
From what you've described you must have a crap ton of sphywhere piggybacking on your signal to send you advertising, spy on you, and stealing your information!
On the pc/laptop you can also try AVG anti virus home edition (its annoying with its reminders to upgrade but right now I bet you won't care about that, your computer needs to be freed from this junk!)
Sadly the avg app is total crap so skip it if your phone/tablet is the problem.
I hope you're able to at least read this. Let me know if have any success!
Good luck!
Oh, about the internet, well, it's not about my bad connection. I'm afraid I might be living without it for the meantime for some reasons. Meaning that I will be offline because I will literally lose my internet. But, again, thank you very much for putting up that post for me. I can't thank you enough, but you get my gesture. Million thanks this time!
You are welcome!
Okay, thanks. I'm real dlow to fo these things, but when I'm done I hope it'll be if some help to you.
Seriously though, you're already helping me enough. The least I could do is to wait patiently, you know. Take your time, man.
http://my.w.tt/UiNb/EIBwh43dQy
Steampunk Mythology
Sometime after the Victorian Era... Ara is caught up in the Bane of Atreus. As a female reincarnation of Orestes, she must find a way to change the stories and undo the curse for good.