Imagine waking up, and not knowing anything. As in, anything at all. You don't know your name, age, location, previous life up until that moment, nor whatever else is going on all around you. Imagine only being able to find out by searching for clues as to your history and whereabouts, and not knowing if what you find is true or not.
For me, this is my reality. My name is....I am....I am in this predicament. I am somewhere I don't know, and somewhere I don't like at all. I haven't met anybody else here, but I don't know if I want to. I've looked about, and I've found out very little about myself, or any other information that could help me.
I don't know if what I've found is true. I don't know if I want it to be or not. Everything I have managed to find has painted a disturbing picture. Everything I've found has pointed me towards vague clarity that I wonder not only whether it is real or fake, but whether the memory loss, the amnesia, is worse than the truth. My predecessor doesn't seem to have thought so.
Everything I've found is telling me to descend.
Descend into the dark.
My name is...I am...
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...Diamond.
Didn't this used to have cover art?
5249794 No, it was always like this. You might be thinking of a different story about the same concept, but I should probably put some cover art up for my one anyway, make it look a little less bland.
These are some, uh, long chapters. Most professional novelists are told to keep their chapters anywhere between 1,250 and 5,000 words apiece (the average adult reads about 250 words a minute, so most chapters should be able to be read anywhere between 5 minutes and 20 minutes, depending on the story).
These chapters are also very awkwardly lengthed. After spending over 20+ minutes on the first chapter, I was in no way prepared for the 50+ minute chapters I was going to have to endure hereafter. I think this story would be much more effective, and much more well received, if you could find some places to split up the chapters, and make it a bit shorter.
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Okay, thanks for the advice. I'll aim to keep it all shorter from hereon out.