Trako

I made it with seven. Should I really do ten?
(Jack, Anna, Jessica, Tobie, Tim, Billy, and Jim.)

"Hey, Anna. How's it going?" asked Jack.
"Great! But I haven't seen Jessica in a while-nyaa~".
"But I'm right here sitting on Tobie's lap."
"Ohh~ yeah she is.. And it feels great!"
"Oh, you're right. There you are! Hello-nyaa~"
"Hello to you too."
"Hey, Jessica. You want to sit on my seat? I can stand," offered Tim.
"That's kind of you. I gladly will."
"Then I will stand."
"Hey! Don't leave my lap! It's cozy!!"
"Sorry, Tobie," she said and stood up.
"Nooooo~~~"
"Haha! She left your lap! Loser!"
"Shut up, Billy!!"
"No, you shut up!"
"Both of you, stop! That's childish."
The duo screamed back, "No. It's. NOT!! Jim!"

      Leylin_Farlier Grouping them is a good idea, otherwise, it turns into a mess where even if you point at each character it still gets hard for the reader to imagine the scene and keep up with the constant changes of who is talking and to whom. Well switching the rest into a 'stand-by-nod-only' mode may work as well, but requires a bit of practice to avoid situations where the rest becomes a background, or readers will forget that this person was even there in the first place.

          NineNeatherBird That's what I want to avoid, it's chaotic and when it's possible to illustrate a 10 people conversation in this way, making a constant use of it would require the reader to lose the 'smoothness' of reading and force him to pay attention to every name and indication of who's talking. It's way to easy to get lost and have to go back to re-read the whole part again.

          (That's what I meant by the part that I want to avoid pointing my author's finger at)

              Trako uhm, when they all have the same name it could work. In fact, they could all be ten parts of the same person..

              Writing this on cell phone it tough, but here it goes.

              “You and all of I are in trouble”
              “Oh no what did we do!”
              “She’s coming for us we shouldn’t have!”
              “Shhh, she might here us!”
              “Wait, but we are all inside the main characters head. All nine of us and him which makes ten.”
              “I’m scared guys!,” screamed Jo Nine
              He was right next to 1-8 in an isle.
              “Humph, our leader will win against the girl! Apparently they are about to have a fight in the yard”
              “Nooo!”
              “She’s just trying to give him flowers” Joe 1 said. He was very feminine, and smelled nice.

              “Humph, stop talking you fool. We must dodge her fist!!!”

              They all slammed into the side of joes head. The momentum caused him to barely miss the gun shot.

              He fell in the bushes....

              Wow, I wrote that for some reason... haha.

              Also, you can give them easy names so you can introduce them fast...

              Uhm, this was attempt 1. Indeed, this is very hard.

                  Cobyboy okay... I need opinions about writing synopsis. How much of a spoiler should be in there? For now my synopsis is a little ambigous and you could say not interesting.
                  My story's a romance fiction. The plot is basically about a guy (mc) who is practically 'damsel in distress' and the girl is the 'prince charming' who will swoop in and save him and lead him back on track.
                  Should I write the synopsis like this? Is it wise to expose the plot to would-be readers?

                  Another question, should I post my story in other sites like wattpad or rrl? For now webnovel is the only place I post this story to.

                      LetThereBeMagic If this is not a plot twist you're trying to hide and shock readers with then go on and use it. Don't introduce too many characters or events in your synopsis, focus on key elements that are easy to grasp by reading your novel's 1-5 chapters and yet are interesting and may catch someone's attention right away. If you're writing a story with a 'cheat' or 'op system' that are available from the start and interesting them I would focus on introducing them in a funny/intriguing way. If you're writing a love story where the girl plays the part of a prince maybe your synopsis can introduce that character like a guy only to mention at the end something like 'If only she was a boy' etc.

                      As for posting on watapad ... give up. New stories don't have any exposure over there and drown in millions of others, you will get like one reader per month.

                      As for RoyalRoad that's a good idea, people over there are active, like to comment, the site gives you many tools that author's like (exact count of views per each chapter etc.) the exposure is fair and it's easy to gather some additional readers, but they tend to be a bit favorizing towards the litRPG genre and similar.

                          Trako thank you very much! 😘😘😘😘😘😘😘
                          Actually the plot couldn't be a plot twist but still i want readers to figure it out themselves and be shocked. It's a romance story, there's only one way it could go. I realize the important part is how i write the process and make it interesting....
                          So what you're saying is it's okay to include a little plot in the synopsis? This is getting complicated 😅😅😅.
                          You're right about wattpad.
                          I'll post it in rrl.
                          If you are curious my story is Not Prince Charming. No link coz I'm using app 😊

                              LetThereBeMagic

                              Put yourself in the reader's shoes. Remember those time when you were bored and scourged through tens or hundreds of novels, hoping to find an interesting one.

                              -it could be a genre you like
                              -it could be an interesting concept you've never came acrossed
                              -it could be two or more genres you like and imagined both of them crossed together in a novel, and then a novel that fulfills it or most probably close to it appears

                              Easiest one would be to open up your Novel Library and look at how your favorite authors/translator put up their synopsis

                              Hope that helps buddy. Maybe you can check out how I did my novel's sysnopsis
                              Surviving Apocalypse with Powers of Fictional Characters

                                  Cobyboy right. Except I hate clickbait ads and avoided them like the plague lol. (Webnovel's ads is a necessary evil though😝). Can't imagine myself peddling a romance story like that 😂😂😂😂😂

                                      turtleboiii um... I don't get your question. What kind of insight?
                                      I write it seriously for self-publishing or at least to accomplish something, like 'an enjoyable book that people could appreciate'. Also to prove that I can be as good as a first language writer.
                                      (English is my second language)
                                      (Hope this is the right answer)

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