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Introducing "The Wanderblood Princess and Sir Try Hard" | a new webnovel

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Aug 11, 2022 4:45 AM
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Link to my webnovel

Hello! Putting my HFxMAL entry on here since I've completed writing it. Hope you take the opportunity to give it a try! Comments and general feedback are welcome.

Synopsis:
Princess Chiffon loves many things: early morning tea and sweet cakes to lift her spirits… and the scent of blood paired with the crunch of bones. If the latter isn’t enough to warp her elegant façade, her new knight, Caramello, takes every opportunity to bring out the worst in her. Charming and tenacious, his silver tongue makes Chiffon question his every move. A ‘try hard’ who ensures that his princess looks absolutely stunning in red.
AWiddleStarAug 11, 2022 4:49 AM
Aug 12, 2022 12:54 AM
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I started to read introduction is cool!
Aug 15, 2022 2:26 AM
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If you feel it's finished there's no real point commenting on what can be improved, but I have some notes.

Going mainly off of the first few chapters:

  • There's a trend of awkward synonyms, such as the cliché of eyes described as gemstones.
  • The use of real-world terms like Darjeeling, Poker and Cognac doesn't mesh with the fantasy this appears to be set in.
  • There are a few moments where it seems to dip into the format of "she looked at this - description - then her gaze turned to this - description - etc," in chapter 2 especially.
  • On a similar note, her name, and that of others, gets used in narration a little too much, almost every other paragraph.
  • There's a rather awkward info dump explaining the climax in the final chapter.
  • The use of "Try Hard" as a recurring phrase never really gets off the ground, so much so that ending with it just seems weird.
  • It also feels awfully confined, in that everything revolves around the protagonist and her requiring a suitor.


For what it's worth though, I can commend having a plot that goes beyond just the romance, which is a credit, and a clear change in state from the start to the end. I'd give it a 6.
Well I for one already loved Lain.
Aug 15, 2022 4:52 AM
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O_T_T said:
If you feel it's finished there's no real point commenting on what can be improved, but I have some notes.

Going mainly off of the first few chapters:

  • There's a trend of awkward synonyms, such as the cliché of eyes described as gemstones.
  • The use of real-world terms like Darjeeling, Poker and Cognac doesn't mesh with the fantasy this appears to be set in.
  • There are a few moments where it seems to dip into the format of "she looked at this - description - then her gaze turned to this - description - etc," in chapter 2 especially.
  • On a similar note, her name, and that of others, gets used in narration a little too much, almost every other paragraph.
  • There's a rather awkward info dump explaining the climax in the final chapter.
  • The use of "Try Hard" as a recurring phrase never really gets off the ground, so much so that ending with it just seems weird.
  • It also feels awfully confined, in that everything revolves around the protagonist and her requiring a suitor.


For what it's worth though, I can commend having a plot that goes beyond just the romance, which is a credit, and a clear change in state from the start to the end. I'd give it a 6.


Thanks for the input. Since the contest deadline isn't up yet, there is still time to make some tweaks. I'll take a look through some of these points.

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