Lissea's Constant Complaints

A while ago I wrote a post on Reddit suggesting authors trading chapters as a way of helping out each other in a manageable way, as authors might have time to read a chapter of someone else’s work when they didn’t have time to do that for a whole book. Also thought it might help with the whole scamming Beta Readers situation or those who struggled to get a volunteer Beta Reader for whatever reason. After all, you could get a whole lot of people to read one chapter each and get half your book covered, and the benefit of feedback from multiple people. I also suggested that you could do this with problematic chapters, the extra feedback making it possible to fix them. The idea was shot down because that’s what writing groups are for. I removed the post despite only this single comment, not wanting to risk a load of downvotes while I was offline, but I later regretting it.  For one, writing groups often require commitment and meeting up, I later discovered. Many are on Discord, which t...

The Miraculous Ladybug Movie was brilliant, and corrected many of the issues and questionable things that were in the show. Miraculous World on the other hand . . .  It was boring. It has interesting things in it but somehow they don’t come off as interesting. This show always felt unimaginative and formulaic – as opposed to Phineas and Ferb which is formulaic, but it isn’t a downside and doesn’t feel tired. Miraculous feels tired after three episodes, and feels the same whatever episode in whichever season you watch. World is worse, though, as it feels like one really dragged out episode.  The characters are flat and uninteresting. I mean, you’ve had quite a while to put in some character development. Why are any changes only due to bad writing? The show is like a western animated series mixed with an anime but not using any of the good parts of either, ending up with an uninspiring and unoriginal show that doesn’t seem to be trying to be anything at all. It feels mediocre, a...