Writer: @Xx4sadiej6xX
How many chapters were there?: 7

Welcome to a review for Flesh EaterZ. My name is Sunflower and I will be your host for today. Indulge in a slice of pizza or two — or perhaps even the whole pie. It's going to be a long journey.

Cover + Summary
Oh wow, that's one gory cover all right! Just the way the rotten flesh is portrayed on that zombie is a strong indication of what the reader is about to venture into.

The only complaint I have about the cover is that I feel like the caption, 'When life gives you lemons, throw them at the zombies' should be a tad larger for the eye to see. I can still read the caption, but sometimes I have to squint to do so.

Other than that, the cover is straight forward and gets to the point. The font also seems fitting for the theme of the story.

As for the summary, it's simple and there. The caption from the cover is also pasted in the blurb, as I've noticed.

You forgot the period after the sentence 'one zombie apocalypse'.

Other than that, it's fine. It's not too exciting of a summary, but it tells you straight forward what the reader should expect and will probably get zombie fans intrigued for sure.

Grammar + Writing Style
Before I begin, I just want to inform you that I'm aware that this is your first story. As I've already mentioned in the rules of this shop, I'm here to offer lots of help and constructive criticism, not bash on your writing. There's already a warning stated in this shop that states that I will be brutally honest, but not downright mean. There's a difference and a fine line between the two. With that being said, let's begin.

I've noticed that the way you arrange your character's dialogue tags is sometimes incorrect. I might see a line of dialogue coming from a character structured like this in your story:

"Shut up." Kelsey said.

When it should look like this:

"Shut up," Kelsey said.

If you don't know what a dialogue tag is, a dialogue tag is basically the Kelsey said in the example above. Dialogue tags are when characters say, ask, reply, etc.

There should always be a comma followed by a speaking verb (examples of speaking verbs are said, yelled, and whispered) whenever there isn't an exclamation point or question mark at the end of a character's words. That's just how dialogue tags are supposed to look in their proper format. If there isn't an exclamation point or question mark at the end of a character's line of dialogue, it should always have a comma, never a period. The only time you can use periods is when there's no speaking verb shown and there's no dialogue tag in the first place.

Another example I can give you of a correct dialogue tag is:

"That witch!" he snarled. "Where did she go?"

As you can see here, the 'he' in the dialogue tag is lowercased. All personal pronouns (I/you/he/she/they) should be lowercased whenever presented in a dialogue tag.

Here's another correct example of what dialogue should look like during a full blown conversation:

"Hey cuz," Samuel drawls, his Southern tang lacing the laidback greeting. "How ya been?"

I shrug. "Fine, I guess. And you?"

"Terrible." With a gurgle sound emerging in the back of his throat, Samuel spits at the ground. The salvia launches into the dirt beneath us. "My cow Tessa's gone and got herself sick. How am I supposed to get milk now?"

As you can see, not every single line of dialogue that a character says needs to have a dialogue tag. Sometimes a character's action, which should always end with a period, can convey that the character is talking for you. Character dialogue should only have dialogue tags sometimes, but never always. And when character dialogue does involve dialogue tags, the dialogue tags should have a comma, exclamation point, or question mark accompanied by a character's name or lowercased personal pronoun and a speaking verb.

To reiterate, a character's action should always end with a period while a character's dialogue tag should always end with a comma, unless there's an exclamation point or question mark at the end of their words.

Here's some more tips on how to write dialogue correctly:

1.  To be more specific, always lowercase the you/he/she/they personal pronouns, but never the I that comes with first POV.

For example:

"What up, bitch?" I greet.

Another correct example:

"What up, bitch?" she greets.

The letter I will always be capitalized when the character's first POV is referring to themself.

2. Never add a comma after a question mark or exclamation point or ellipses (which are the three dots (...) that are usually written when a character is hesitating or when their words trail off).

Here's an incorrect example:

"Wait!," she shouts.

Here's a correct example:

"Wait!" she shouts.

Another incorrect example:

"I don't know..., where do I go?"

Correct example:

"I don't know... where do I go?"

By the way, random note here, ellipses can also be written like this:

"I don't know . . . where do I go?"

Both ways, whether the ellipses are spaced out or not, are correct, in case you didn't know that. The English language is weird.

Anyway, commas are never necessary if there's already a question mark or exclamation point at the end of a character's line of dialogue. They are only necessary in cases absent of a question mark or exclamation point. Once again, an example here would be:

"Wow," Miguel breathed out, astounded by Anna and Tony's exceptional ice skating skills on the rink.

3. Remember, action tags (which is basically when a character does an action) always end in periods. An incorrect example of this would look like so:

Phyrra sighed, slamming her locker shut, "For the last time, I don't wanna go to prom!"

When the correct example is:

Phyrra sighed, slamming her locker shut. "For the last time, I don't wanna go to prom!"

Another incorrect example of this is:

"Cool." With the bottle of mayo in hand, Noah squeezes a dash of the condiment across the patty of his burger, "Where do you want to go after we eat?"

When it should be modified to look like this:

"Cool." With the bottle of mayo in hand, Noah squeezes a dash of the condiment across the patty of his burger. "Where do you want to go after we eat?"

Hopefully that helps clarify how to write dialogue tags (and action tags) correctly for you. Now that we have that topic out of the way, I want to show you some grammar tips in the form of images that will hopefully explain some stuff better than I would. It's highly recommended that you take a look at this and just review.

For example, here are some semicolon rules that even I need a refresher on since I barely use semicolons:

And here's some more general grammar-related stuff that you can review over:

Again, I hope this helps you! I could go on, but this portion of the review is getting lengthy, so I'll just have to stop right here.

First Impressions
Upon reading the first chapter, I noticed that you've installed pictures of what the clothes that the characters would wear look like. Doing that is usually not advised in writing because when you're writing, the whole point of it is to try to paint out a character's outfit or whatever else happens in a story with words only. It's okay to look at an image of an outfit as a reference, maybe it's even okay to have the pictures posted in a place where your other covers of Flesh EaterZ are, but other than that it usually feels very odd to see images of what the characters are supposed to wear be posted right there in the middle of the story. It interrupts the flow of the story. Also, it's more fun to let the readers imagine what they think the characters dress like based off your descriptions of them rather than what it should be, even if what the readers think isn't exactly what you would think.

The only exceptions to adding images to your story in the middle of a chapter would be if you're a published author who's also collaborating with a comic artist that will draw your characters and what they're doing for you in some pages of your novel.

Or if you're doing reviews or rants and not actually writing professionally, like what I'm doing right now with the pizza gifs in this review.

Other than that, it's not advised to add images in your writing.

This is why writing with details and description is important, because you're supposed to paint out images with words rather than just show a picture. Again, that's the whole point of writing.

Since you seem to be new to writing (I consider anyone that's been writing stories throughout a time span of 2-3 years to be new), I'll let this slide. I know writing can be hard and takes lots of practice. I've been doing it for I don't know how many years now and I think I still have ways to go.

But if you want to create another story someday, try to not install images in the middle of a chapter to describe what a character is wearing.

Keep in mind: it's okay to have a separate chapter with a character cast and to show what celebrities/models represent which character in that chapter. I know you're writing for fun and you want to do that. It's Wattpad you're writing for, not a publishing house. Sure, that's fine, as long as the images aren't in your professional writing and smack dab in the middle of a chapter that's related to the ongoing storyline.

Also: character aesthetics are awesome too, as long as they, again, don't interfere with the professional writing or any chapters related to the ongoing storyline. Maybe you can post these aesthetics in the character casting chapter or the very beginning/very end of a chapter story, just don't do it in the middle of a chapter out of nowhere.

I know a lot of readers on here usually don't care if you write with grammar mistakes or if you post pictures of what the character's outfits look like, but when it comes to improving more and more with your writing, it really helps to take these steps.

No worries, I was once like you. I once made some of these mistakes as well. And after correcting them, I found my writing much more fluent and beautiful. I found myself growing a lot.

It really pays off.

If you have any questions or if you're confused about anything, please let me know in an inline comment — which is a comment you can write that's shown on the side on a specific paragraph after highlighting said specific paragraph — and I'll try my best to explain to you again what I mean.

As for the first chapter of the story itself, I thought it was nice and somewhat chill. I definitely got knowledge of what some of the characters would act like as well as how underfunded their school is if they've got dirty floors and lots of gum wads stuck in corners.

For example, Jordan acts like detention is her second home, ha ha. She also seems to be the type of character to always blow bubbles and have gum with her.

Meanwhile, Sasha is like her accomplice, her partner in crime.

After the racing scene to the detention room, they seem like such playful goofballs, basically like your typical teens that like to get in a little bit of mischief. They definitely act their age.

On another note, I've noticed that you tend to switch between past and present tense in your writing. You should only stick to one, never juggle between the two, or else the story ends up becoming a huge mess regarding flow and structure.

This is past tense:

"Blah!" I stuck out my lower lip. It jutted out in a pout. "So what if you won?"

This is present tense:

"Blah!" I stick out my lower lip. It juts out in a pout. "So what if you won?"

Notice the difference and pick one or the other, never both. If you have trouble deciding, consider this:

1. Present tense is often used in more action-packed novels because action can be conveyed more fluently with this style of writing. When you're writing in this tense, it might feel like your characters are in a movie. It feels more film-like and can intensify the emotions of your characters.

However, it's harder to write flashbacks and time skips using this tense. It's also kind of harder to write using this tense in general. Also, it's typically not flexible enough to cover the first POV of more than one character unless you're writing in a third POV. Although, even using third POV for a range of characters is still kind of difficult in this tense.

2. Meanwhile, past tense is more commonly used in writing and is usually the go-to tense that you'd stick with if you can't decide what tense to write your story in. Past tense can more easily cover flashbacks and time skips, as well as a range of perspectives from different characters.

Either way, it's up to you what tense you want for whatever reason.

I also want to mention that it's not necessary to censor curse words in a story with a * symbol or whatever else. It's perfectly fine to just spell them out. I can understand if you're young and you think that you need to censor it, but you really don't need to. There's no rule that says that you have to, unless you're writing a children's book. And even if you were writing a children's book, you wouldn't need to censor curses in the first place because you wouldn't have any.

Considering how this is a zombie apocalypse story, there's nothing child friendly about that, so it's perfectly fine to just fully curse in your writing!

I don't curse a lot myself in real life, but my characters . . .

Gawd, my characters are different. They're not me and some of them curse like an intense gamer in rage mode. Some of them are that intense gamer in rage mode.

While Sasha and Jordan are settling in the detention room, the description of the principal was nicely done. Comparing his suit color to dog shit was brilliant. Again, you don't need pictures to describe that image.

Also, even though you're describing a popular girl clique that's been overdone lots of times in a high school setting, I like that it has a unique ring.

Tea cup girls. That's funny and kind of original, in my opinion.

I felt like the introduction of the tea cup girls was quite fitting, consider how there's beef between Jordan, Sasha, and them, but the boys felt rushed. I feel like I can know more about the boys and their appearances later on throughout the story rather than witness a bunch of info about them being crammed in as quickly as possible here.

For example, you could just describe that Liam has blond ends and brown roots later on throughout her story by having him do an action that would give away his hair color, rather than just briefly describe it now. Show rather than tell that he has this hair color.

You could have Liam do an action like this later on throughout the story:

Liam raked a hand through his head, his hand running through brown roots and blond ends. "Whew, this hike sure is making me sweat."

Rather than just state right off the bat:

Liam had hair that was brown at the roots with blond ends.

Do you see the difference? Sometimes subtlety is key. Not everything has to be described all at once. Sometimes you can subtly describe what a character is wearing or what their hair or face or skin color looks like by mentioning it casually several times throughout a story rather than have it all explained in one chapter and that's that. The readers will more easily remember what your characters look like and how they're different in comparison to another character if you use this subtlety technique in writing. Hopefully this makes sense and will serve as a great writing tip for you.

I like that more of Jordan's I-don't-give-a-fuck attitude is being displayed through her mannerisms in detention. It's nice way of showing what her character is like.

I also like that some of the female characters have distinguishing traits, which is what makes their characters pop out. That's a good way to making one character different from another.

For example, the way you described Alesha's signature perfume was great. Now I know that the character that would usually smell like perfume is Alesha.

To be completely honest, since I don't usually eat candy or sweets that much and I would usually give away all of my goodies on Halloween since I didn't want them, I didn't know what a Malteser was and had to look it up, ha ha.

It's also a British sweet and I'm American, so I guess that's another reason why I don't know it.

The scene where Jordan had to toss the Maltesers into Sasha and the other boys' opened mouths was hilarious. Reminded me of the seals and whales that would beg for more fish to gobble up in Sea World. Brilliant scene!

That cliffhanger near the end was also perfect. It's always good to drop a cliffhanger like that, especially in the first chapter. It'll really lure the readers in for more.

Characters
For starters, before I can jump to and talk about each character individually, I have to say:

There are officially way too many characters to keep track of. Some I forget the names of them, like Layla and a couple of the other four boys that have been introduced in the first chapter. I don't really forget about Ryan or Cooper that much since they have girlfriends and that's one of the few reasons I can distinguish them, but I often forget about Liam and Sebastian.

Wait, speaking of Layla, whatever happened to her? She hasn't been mentioned since Jordan shoved her out of the way to save her from a zombie.

Did Layla ever say thank you? She hasn't been mentioned since then. Where'd she go?

She's only mentioned briefly again in chapter four, when she, Stacy, and Dillon have to look over Rebecca. With the way she's acting, it's almost like the event from chapter two never affected her, which is odd.

She's mentioned again in chapter seven when explaining to everyone Stacy's backstory after her death. I really like that she did that, it really sheds some light on Stacy's character as well as Layla's foster home background.

Speaking of Stacy, the way that Stacy's character was being portrayed was really sad, to be honest. Well, was. Here me out.

She was seen as some shameful slut that was thirsty for Raphael and only cared about her nails and beauty sleep in Jordan's eyes, which made her character very shallow and not all that developed at first. However, when she and Jordan were trying to escape from the horde and they were finally ready to call a truce and get along, I felt like her instant death right after that was incredibly jarring, rushed, and could've been executed better.

I believe there needs to be at least some build up before a character's death is supposed to mark an impact and she didn't get any of it. All Stacy got was a 'let's make a truce' before she died. Her death felt . . . empty to me. I wish she could've called a truce with Jordan earlier, so that that way there would've been at least some build up for their relationship before her heroic sacrifice for Jordan.

I think the fact that Stacy didn't even get a chance at redemption was more sad than her death.

However, maybe you intended for this to happen, maybe it was supposed to be more shocking than sad. And if you did intend on making that happen, congrats on making it work.

By the way, when did Cooper and Alesha suddenly get so intimate? What happened? Realistically, I think they would interact more with each other, but cuddling on his lap seems like a stretch.

Also, I want to mention that I feel like the chemistry between Raphael and Jordan is kinda forced. They're already hugging and kissing by the fourth chapter, which feels extremely off to me.

I barely know anything about Raphael and suddenly he's into Jordan and she's into him? It's never mentioned how long these two have known each other, if they've always felt this way toward each other, or if they were just acquaintances before the whole zombie apocalypse. It's really confusing to decipher what's going on between the two.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with them being together, I think it's actually really nice that Raphael was able to comfort Jordan while she was crying in chapter four, but I feel like they need to slow it down and let their relationship develop naturally with time instead of having them make out by chapter seven. Maybe there should also be more background on them, like how do they know each other?

I can't say much else about these characters.

I mean, I know bits and pieces about Stacy's life and past. I know that Fran is gay and thinks that Layla is cute. Sebastian and Sasha are a thing as much as Jordan and Raphael. I hope Tiffany and Ryan don't get a surprise attack by a zombie while eating each other's faces. Cooper and Alesha are a thing. Liam is . . . Liam? Damien is Fran's twin brother.

I feel like I'm missing someone . . .

Like I said before, there's a lot of characters to keep track of, which can be troubling and puzzling. Even though Jordan is the main character, I feel like I know her as well as I know all of the other characters, which is not that much.

This is honestly feeling more like a romance than a zombie apocalypse story in some areas, ha ha.

I'd like to see more depth being added to the characters later on. I feel like the story is only beginning and that they still have a chance at being portrayed as real people — people with feelings, people who make mistakes. Just people trying to survive, flaws and all.

Plot
Here are some plot-related thingamabobs I'd like to mention and discuss in chronological order of the story:

1. It's Raphael, right? I feel like the proper spelling is Raphael, but you constantly misspelled it as Rapael all throughout the second chapter, so I was very confused there. I feel like Raphael's introduction after the principal (it's not principle, it's principal with an -al since principle literally defines as a rule while a principal is someone who's in charge of a school) left to go investigate that scream was extremely odd. Wouldn't Raphael have heard that scream?

2. Dang, now I need to know what Jordan's background is like if she can speak Dutch, French, Italian, Russian, and some rusty Spanish. Is her father in the military, which causes them to move around a lot? How did she come to learn so many languages? Was her mother from a different country? Did her family just move around a lot? How does moving around a lot and learning these different languages affect her as a person? You can use the subtlety technique to weave together and show her background story one at a time, it doesn't all have to be explained in one giant monologue right away. It's actually not at all advised in writing to describe a character's background story in one huge block of text.

It should always be a necessity to give your characters at least some sort of a background story. Creating a background story for your characters makes them much more well-rounded and somewhat relatable. A character feels all the more real and deep if you know the reasons for why they act the way they do.

For example, if it turns out that Jordan just knows all of these languages for no reason, then it makes her character fall extremely flat. However, if she knows all of these languages because of [insert background story/reasons here], then that's great and knowing all of those languages should give her an advantage in life or affect her in some way and form.

3. Wow, that second chapter was intense as hell! Even though you do need some work with grammar and punctuation, the way you describe that zombie jumping onto Jordan was well executed. It's also very understandable why she would throw up and then pass out after that. Nicely done there.

4. You shouldn't add any author notes in the middle of a chapter. That disrupts the flow of a story even more by snapping the readers out from the fictional world that you've worked so hard to create. Only write author notes before a chapter begins or after a chapter ends.

5. It's mentioned in chapter three, while Jordan and Ryan are interacting late at night because they both can't sleep, that Jordan and Sasha are close friends with Ryan and his girlfriend. Yet in chapter one, Sasha talks to Jordan about Ryan and the other boys like they're acquaintances? Maybe indicate that Sasha and Jordan are close friends with Ryan more in the first chapter.

6. Is it Tiffiny or Tiffany? Sometimes it's spelled one way, sometimes it's spelled the other. I'm gonna guess Tiffany. Grammar might need some tidying up with the names and the unnecessary capitalization of some words like 'sir' and 'principal'.

Principal should only be capitalized when it's accompanied by a name. Ex. Principal Brown.

7. In chapter four, although I'm glad Jordan has a med kit in her bag for emergencies after helping out Tiffany and those other people (Rebecca and Dillion) get inside and away from the zombies, I'm really baffled by why she has a med kit. It's not like she was expecting a zombie apocalypse to happen today. Are her parents doctors and they've just trained her to always have a med kit with her? Again, I'm curious about her background story if she has one. If not, she really needs one or else she's really falling flat as a character that does things for no reason.

It's okay to make characters awesome, but know that they must also have flaws and reasons for why they are the way they are. Just like people, characters can't be perfect, no matter what species they are or what powers they have. It's important to have characters with flaws because reading about characters constantly succeeding in everything is a stretch and makes them not at all relatable or even worth cheering for.

It's important to treat your characters like they're people, like they're real. And people are never perfect.

8. In chapter four, after calling Jordan a hot doctor when she finishes patching up Rebecca's wound, Raphael is said to have pale skin. But in chapter two, he was described as tan. Is that a mistake? Or am I wrong?

9. I'm sorta confused as to why the zombies are known as the un-dead. Technically, they are dead. I think the 'living dead' or just 'the dead' might make more sense.

10. I feel like there are a lot of good things that are happening out of weird coincidence. For example, Sasha and Jordan's cars both have power outlets and a lot of interior room? Jordan just has a med kit? They find female hygiene products and birth control? In a school of all places?

I'm actually very surprised and kinda disappointed that not one of these characters is deemed out of shape or struggling to catch up or having an anxiety attack right now. I figured those would be reasonable responses to a zombie apocalypse if someone's not as athletic or physically as capable as Jordan and Raphael seem to be.

(Well, then again, I'm assuming one of the reasons that Stacy went down was because she wasn't fast enough to outrun that horde of zombies.)

11. Oohh . . . I knew Rebecca was gonna turn. Anyone that's injured in a zombie apocalypse is automatically suspicious.

. . . And I did kinda expect Dillon to try to reach out for her, even after she's turned.

Ooohh . . . *hisses through my teeth*

Yeah, that happened.

12. Wait, what happened to Rebecca once Ryan pulled her off Dillon? Did they kill her? It's never explained what they did to her.

It's never actually explained what they did to Dillon either.

It should be extremely important to never miss writing out your characters' actions, to never miss writing what they do. You don't want too many loopholes in the plot.

13. I actually really liked chapter six. It's very understandable that Jordan undergo absolutely bloody and morbid nightmares. The way that everything was being described was so gory.

I really liked how that dream went down. Sure it was awful, but it made Jordan a bit realistic and human for having it. She's only a high schooler, after all. It's only natural to be tormented like so.

I like gore, so the details in the writing were nice. That's probably unexpected coming from me, but I really do. Well, in books at least.

Seriously though, anyone can easily contract PTSD or at least some degree of it during the apocalypse. I'm honestly surprised that there haven't been many PTSD victims shown in zombie-related anything.

14. I facepalmed so hard when they all decided to drink beer.

While outside.

And in my head, I just had to think: Man, y'all gonna die.

People who have sex or drink during the zombie apocalypse? 200% more likely to die unless they're inside of a zombie proof shelter.

Which they're not in.

A sober person runs better than a drunk one, after all.

Well, then again, maybe they think drinking will help cope with the pain that they feel regarding their shitty situation. They are teenagers, it wouldn't be abnormal for them to think that way.

Things I Liked
1. You have so many cool covers to choose from. I honestly don't think you need anymore, the amount you have is more than enough.

2. Watching these teenagers try to survive. It's like watching an amusing survival show, in a sick, twisted kind of way.

3. When Raphael and Jordan insulted the zombies while distracting them.

4. The fact that Stacy's character wasn't as shallow as I thought. She had reasons for doing what she did back when she was alive.

5. I guess it's very understandable for why Jordan would blame herself for Stacy's death since she was right there when Stacy had died. 

Conclusion + Grade
Overall, I feel like, though you do have an exciting and action-packed premise, the pacing needs to be slowed down enough for me to at least be more familiarized with the characters and how they're handling the zombie apocalypse situation. I feel like the romance between all of these characters during such an awful time could wait since not dying should be priority instead of kisses and physical intimacy.

Then again, these characters could be trying to shift their attention away from the zombie apocalypse by focusing onto each other. You know, as a distraction. Maybe they want to be in denial of what's really happening. I guess that's a reasonable theory too.

I just wouldn't expect love to already blossoming in a time where you could literally die at any moment.

While I do like the way you write intense gory scenes at times, I implore that you also take the time to write out most to all of the characters' actions and not miss any loopholes in the plot. For example, I feel like something should've happened after Rebecca and Dillon died. Also, how did the characters dispose of them in the first place? What exactly happened? How could they kill Rebecca and Dillon/prevent them from turning without having a gun to shoot them in the head? Did they use a desk or something? Stuff like that.

The grammar and punctuation could be polished more so that the events in a chapter can be read more clearly. There were times when I had to reread some parts due to confusion over what was happening. A singular tense also needs to be chosen as well while writing.

With that being said, I give this story a score of 5 out of 10.

The plot isn't bad, it's pretty nice, and the characters all still have the potential to grow and be portrayed as real and flawed people, but points had to be docked for grammar and the rushed pacing of where things are going so far. I felt like there was a lack of an explanation in some areas of the story and that it needed to slow down.

Before I leave you to finish the rest of your virtual pizza, I want to give you a slice of advice:

I've noticed, based off your author's notes, that you think getting views and votes means everything in a story.

And that's simply not true.

The more you obsess over how many votes and views you get, the less productive your writing becomes. Trust me, I've been there in that same position a long time ago.

It's just not worth it.

It is never worth it.

You need to write for yourself, to write for your own enjoyment.

Yes, of course it's human nature to seek out praise or constructive feedback every now and then, but you have to remind yourself that it's just not at all healthy or good to write solely for the votes and views.

I've also noticed that you tend to crank out chapters on a whim. You tend to upload more than once a week, which is extremely fast compared to a lot of writers. Some writers usually upload once a month.

However, it's way better to take your time! That way, you can reread and re-edit your work later.

You can try to upload once every few weeks, maybe even once every week, but don't do more than that unless you're REALLY sure that you have to upload that next chapter. Until you know that that next chapter has been groomed and polished as neatly as it can be.

Quality over quantity.

Take time to improve step by step. Ignore any pressure or obligation that you feel toward views, votes, and other readers. Stop telling yourself that this chapter needs to get 25 votes before you upload the next one. Stop expecting this or that. Don't expect anything and just upload whenever you feel ready to.

Improving your writing will never happen by getting absorbed over views and votes, and it will never happen over one night either. It took me years to try to be where I am right now and I still have ways to go.

Writing takes time and it takes patience. It's a whole bunch of things that you probably didn't expect when you first started out.

I know it can be hard at times, but even so, I wish you good luck on your journey.