Born From A Divine Gamble

Before I get to the meat of the subject, thank you for reading my story until chapter 36! I think it"s important to start with that. We"re entering a new "arc" so many things will happen and Emp will start learning real stuff soon, if it all goes according to plan.

You see, Born form a divine gamble has been going on for four months now already but I"ve received overwhelmingly few comments on any of it. That said, I don"t know for you but I feel like comments are an important thing for a writer to use for improvement.

So far, I gathered about three things from those very few comments. People don"t like Galana, people don"t like a story that is split in half (Don"t worry, I don"t plan on doing it again) and people like the small stories I rarely put out at the end of a chapter.

Considering that, there are many things I would like to say and ask. You don"t have to answer everything of course, maybe only one of those things is important to you in that case just answer that one question. I know most of them are pretty vague but bear with me please, I"ve been completely blind up until now so there"s nothing I can focus my questions upon.

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*First of all,

as I commented earlier on the latest chapter, I would like to point out that comments, both positive or negative really helps me out, even if you don"t have anything "worthy" to say. Don"t be shy, we are all friends here, we all love to read. Just a simple "loved it" or "too long" really would help me out. Do leave your thoughts in the comments at the end of the latest chapter. If you leave them on earlier chapters, it may take me a long while to see them because Webnovel doesn"t send me a notice when I receive a comment so the only way for me to check if I had some is to open every chapters one by one. By leaving your opinion on the latest chapter, I will see it much quicker. If you don"t receive an answer within a day, do not believe I do not care about what you said, I really do, I just missed it, I will see it eventually, at worse, a month after.

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*Then about the author thoughts.

Since I like to talk, the author thought window at the end of the chapters felt too small for me and I migrated all my thoughts on Patreon. No one came to see them, there are 0 views on all of them. Either this means that no one cared enough about why I do things the way I do or you really find bothersome to follow a link.

What do you feel I should do about this?

Do you want me to revert back to constricted half-sentences in the small author thought box?

Do you think it"s OK for them to be over on Patreon and if so, would you prefer me to place the patreon link somewhere else than in the Author thought box?

Should I make a short version of what I want to say in that box and keep the detailed version up on patreon for those it might interest?

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*About the length and frequency of the chapters

If we forget about the very long Red-water part, I"ve been trying to mostly release six-thousand words long chapters, twice a week. The current me can"t write faster than this in English which isn"t my native language.

Do you think the chapters are too few and far between?

Should I write shorter chapters for more releases each week or are you like me and you like long meaty chapters?

Releasing one or two "one-thousands words" chapters a day might be easier than what I"m doing now but I"m afraid we"ll end up with way too many cliffhangers and half finished conversations.

Then, are you upset I put out chapters of a second story out to gain myself some more time to write the chapters coming up next?

Would you rather have no chapters at all than something different if I can"t figure out the layout and wording of the school chapters for a while?

Or maybe you would like me to push through anyway even if those chapters feel janky?

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*About the story and characters themselves.

Do you have some complain about the pace?

Do you wish I detailed something more than I did or do you think that there is too much description?

What are your views on the few fight scenes we had until now?

What about the design of monsters?

Are there too many girls around in the story?

A lot of guys are introduced in the school arc that we just began. Will you be upset if Emp doesn"t get all the girls for himself or do you hate harems and would be glad if for once the side characters got the girls (or boys) they deserved?

Am I spending too much time on things that seem pointless?

Where would you like the story to go towards in the future?

What do you expect to see?

Is there something you really don"t want to see? For example, maybe you really don"t want Galana to become Emp"s wife. XD Maybe you don"t want to see important characters die or you dislike zombies, I don"t know, that"s why I"m asking.

Do you think: "Emp isn"t gaining powers fast enough, you should do more time skips and jump to power gains when there is a slowdown." or do you think. "I like the journey more than the result, you should detail more of his interaction with the people around him and stop cutting it short to progress the story a bit, we want the full experience of the noob who doesn"t understand how the world turn."

Are you tired of Emp being dumb and not understanding what is happening?

Do you want Emp to stop around random parts of the world more often to have some butchered philosophical musing?

Do you think his reaction about killing people was out of place, not traumatizing enough?

Did he have it too easy until now? I didn"t want to put him up against really dangerous things until he had at least some powers to rely upon but maybe I was too soft on the guy?

You saw some bad endings in the shorts at the end of some chapters but would you like some to happen to "real" characters that are actually part of the story? I have some plans for this later but I didn"t want to kill off all the cast, I have "TV show of a bored G.o.d" for that.

I like to explain the backgrounds of characters a lot but maybe you don"t like to read them? Should I keep more backgrounds in the dark? Maybe I"m just doing it because I always get angry at stories when all the plot could have been resolved if that one character told his group his backstory beforehand.

Do you want me to be a bit more adventurous in my descriptions? I don"t like to talk about hings I don"t know anything about like beer for example but maybe you"d like me to try anyway?

Do you think some of the characters are way too two dimensional for you and if so, which one? I have really complicated notes on everyone but balancing between too much personality and not enough can be hard. If you feel that one of them seems wrong or uninteresting, call it out, it will be especially important in the school arc for me since I have around fifty characters to introduce and flesh out for the future.

While we are here, if you think some part of the story happens just because I need it to happen or that it should just not happen at all, call it out as well. If it feels forced. It can happen sometimes that I am so focused on something that "has" to happen that I forget to place out a logical cause for this effect. Call the bulls.h.i.+t if there"s no way this would happen in your opinion. I"m not made out of paper, I can listen. if you are right, I will revise or add more explanation onto it. If you are wrong because you missed some old info, I"ll point it out for you and if you are wrong because I kept some secrets under my sleeve, I"ll giggle like a maniac.

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*About the wording, language, grammar

As you know, my true language is French. Since I have no editor and do everything by myself, I does happen that I make some dumb mistakes. Forgive me for those but also, if you tell me, I will fix the chapter. There are many things I never understand from English, for example, why English takes a uppercase or why feet doesn"t take an "s" at the end despite there being two of them and the way people tend to say that word out loud, p.r.o.nouncing an "s" that isn"t there. I always forget to write "I", I write "i" instead almost 90% of the time and I have to to spot them all in the last correction before the chapter goes out.

I am not perfect, help me out when you feel I"m butchering your language.

Also, I don"t know all the words, sometimes, I just look for a synonym or call out for google translate"s help which is never a good idea. Some words or expressions may get overused because I don"t know how to replace them. If you notice and have a good local saying or a replacement for them, tell me, I am more than interested on hearing them.

Should I install Grammarly on my computer? I keep getting advertising of this on youtube.

Also, maybe you"d like me to change the way I write dialog? I have been going with "" and no tabs before them until now but maybe you"d like something else instead that would be more visible maybe, easier to read?

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*About the t.i.tle, synopsis and tags of the story.

Do you think the t.i.tle and synopsis are alright or are they misleading or bad ins some way? Do you have an opinion at all on this?

Did you give the story a go despite the synopsis or because you were intrigued by it? Should I add any tags, currently there are none but is it even worth it to add some?

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*Do you want me to interact with you more in some way I haven"t thought about? Since no one comments, no one goes to discord and no one goes to Patreon, I feel that either you mostly don"t care or none of those places are to your convenience. There"s around 2500 of you, surely there must be some that want to say something.

You see, it"s really scary to move forward with a project when you have all those questions constantly floating in your head and no one seems to think anything of them.

I"m just aiming to improve myself and provide you a better entertainment in the hopes that my viewers.h.i.+p will grow and lead me somewhere in life.

Also, as an end note: if you feel like you would be a patron but you don"t like the benefits I"m offering tell me, I"ll find something. I would like to rely on Webnovel more but unless I make it to the top somehow, I receive nothing at all from here. Id" like to say I will keep this up forever but I can"t, I"m already 26, eventually, I will have to get a "real" job and cut the "unrewarding nonsense" as my father gently put it for me.

Paddle faster or sink is what it seems to be like here.

And if you answer me, thank you, I appreciate the help.