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What I Wish I Had Known Years Ago Before Writing

Several days ago, I have just posted the last chapter of one of my stories on Wattpad,  Invalid , and it just dawns on me that, yea, I will write this topic and how making mistakes should not be my biggest fear in writing stories anymore. Just to illustrate the background of all this, I used to think so hard before posting my stories on Wattpad, since five years ago(?). That has become a habit since I read a lot of writing tips and how my stories shouldn’t be embarrassing, and how it should be—well, you know—perfect. I expect a lot from myself, and I do enjoy writing as best as I can. What differentiates my habit several years ago with now is that I did what I could, as best as I could. I cared about grammar, my characters, the research I should do, and I posted it. If there was a mistake, then I tried to fix it. I remember writing something wrong about human’s body temperature in  First Love First  until a reader reminded me about it; and how I wrote NaOH instead of Natriu

Jingga Untuk Matahari: A Review

Eh, what could I say? Secara keseluruhan, baca buku ini tuh... melelahkan. And I just don’t know how or when to stop , wkwkwk. :) Banyak banget hal yang kurang cocok sama aku dari cerita JUM ini, despite I still give it three stars . Mulai dari judul yang kurang sesuai dan blurb yang agak-agak tricky dan nipu, plot dan gaya bahasa yang “kedodoran”, sampe porsi tiap tokoh yang timpang. Aku bakal bahas satu per satu serunut mungkin ya, tapi kalo di tengah-tengah agak ngomongin pengalaman dan kesan selama baca ya, please bear with me . Hehe. Pertama-tama, judul—dan kover. Dua orang gandengan, dengan tulisan Jingga untuk Matahari , bikin aku berekspektasi bahwa cerita ini bakal uwu-uwu gitu. Yha intinya banyak adegan pacarannya, trus ngelibatin cinta segitiga, cemburu-cemburuan, ngerebut cewek orang, gitu-gitu lah. Sesuai di blurb banget. Yha, uwu-nya ada sih di bab lima pas Seno pining ke A , tapi sebenernya blurb di belakang itu cuma dekorasi lho. Isinya ya, seba