Hm, well, I'll wait to see what you've got before making any final judgments, it's just that the "ROB sets up the story because he feels like mixing things up a little, haha" was clever the first time, meh the next couple times, and now it's a decade later and I've seen so many recaps of it as a beginning that it just makes me roll my eyes and put a tick in the "close tab" countdown, like having a bunch of variations on punctuation on dialogue markers and bold/italic text at the top of the page to denote normal speech, thoughts, talking to aardvarks, and crazy voices in the main characters head who make comments no one else can hear as if watching it from the theatre on the Satellite of Love, or the canon characters meeting the MC and just "getting a feeling" they should believe him when he tells his ridiculous and/or insulting story about being from a world where they're all fictional.
I'm not saying a good story can't have a few of these things, but they do tend to be warning signs. Let's see what you have, and then I'll see if I have any suggestions for how to make it better instead of generic "don't do this," "but I kinda already did..." which only leads to discouraging further writing, because that's the opposite of what I want to do.
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows
I'm not saying a good story can't have a few of these things, but they do tend to be warning signs. Let's see what you have, and then I'll see if I have any suggestions for how to make it better instead of generic "don't do this," "but I kinda already did..." which only leads to discouraging further writing, because that's the opposite of what I want to do.
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows