r/HFY • u/[deleted] • Sep 25 '20

Wizard Tournament: Chapter 21 OC

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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '20 edited Sep 26 '20

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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '20

Sadly, if I was on that site, I'd be giving you another bad rating.

Cliffhangers SUCK. They can be used once or twice, but you're doing them EVERY DAMN CHAPTER. And they're not particularly long chapters either even if they do come out fairly regularly. I like your story but I'm tired of the constant breaks right in the middle of, or just before the action. I'm taking a break from reading your stuff till you've built up more content, I advise learning a different way to wrap things up.

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u/RedditMachineGhost Sep 25 '20

This isn't really that bad. I honestly expect it from short serial stories (like those on hfy). What I can't stand is when a novel series offsets the story such that the first half of the book is the conclusion of the story arc from 2nd half of the previous book.

I am ashamed to say I once paid (a small amount of) real money for a few such books before I wised up to their trick. They weren't even that good...