Encouragement + Excerpts

This is a group to share excerpts, gain constructive criticism (only if requested!), share pep talks, and all around hold a place in how you keep each other accountable.

Please remember to follow the Community Guidelines, and ensure that any strong language is censored or spoilered, and any adult themes are given a warning above your excerpt while the related paragraphs are spoilered.

This is for the sake of ensuring this community is a safe place for our younger members, especially those who have cautious parents.

If you aren't sure how to spoiler, select the text that needs to be spoilered, and scroll all the way to the right on the text tools bar in the post editor. Click the eye symbol and it will spoiler things for you.

And yeah, spoiler no longer looks like a word now haha!

Constructive Criticism must be requested by adding the Critique Please…

This is the first real chunk of prose I've written in a long time, written mid-October. It doesn't currently have a real start or end, and it's from the perspective of a non-POV character so it will probably never make it into the book it's related to, but I wanted to share it so it doesn't just gather dust in a notebook. I'm not looking for intense feedback, but general impressions of the characters, voice, what story might lie behind it, etc. are welcome!

Wisterin pursued Toril and Orlan near-equally, though neither reciprocated. Sure, Toril entertained her once in a while, but they both knew it was no more than a game. Orlan believed he didn't have time for such things—though what he did deem worthy of his stingy attention was a mystery to Toril—and though Orlan often seemed a blockhead, he had enough smarts, and experience, to recognize false…

Welcome to the Encouragement+ Excerpts group! Here you can share pep talks and excerpts to help keep one another motivated.