Hello everyone.
I'm looking for slow paced stories that's more about the characters than the worldbuilding or the end goal of the plot.
For an example, that means that I want conversations to be written out, as I feel like that adds alot to the characters personality. I don't like when conversations are glossed over, like I called my mother later that afternoon and told her about my trip. I much prefer when authors write out the conversations like -Hi mom! Guess what, I'm back from my trip to Europe. You will never believe what happened to us there, we..... blah blah etc etc. If the characters talk to someone, I'd like to see what they say, not just read a statement that they did talk. The most obvious example of this is FantasyLover's stories (atleast the two I've tried), as he tends to focus on moving the story along and building the world instead.
I also don't want the pace to be too fast. I recently tried Magic Ink and didn't like the pace as in some chapters it was "Monday the 21st we had to go do X, Tuesday the 22nd we had our Y, Wednesday we all had to study so we didn't have time to do Z". In other chapters, months passed and suddenly the protagonist was knowledgeable and experienced in areas where he was unsure and insecure, and all that character development was glossed over in a "The rest of the year was spent in routine and doing alot of studies" or something like that, instead of writing out any struggles, discoveries and other experiences that made the character who he became.
I don't want to many PoVs. The most recent story series I tried to read was The Destroyers - A New Beginning, and while the first story had the same personality change in an instant mentioned above (it was atleast explained why in this one, even if I don't really like when it's done even when it has a reason in the story) and some glaring plotholes, it was the second book that made me give up. It featured a ton of different PoVs, many of them minor characters that had no real purpose other than to be killed off a chapter or two later. If there are different PoVs, I want it to be relevant characters and not too many of them, as though I like a slow pace, I prefer it to be focused on a single or a few characters, and not get sidetracked on a bunch of different sideplots at the same time. This time it was extreme, with the PoVs bouncing around after just short segments, and it just made me lose interest in the main story with all different things going on at the same time.
Lastly, I don't like when other men are involved with the protagonist or his partner(s). That means no gay, no rape, no swinging, no groupsex with other guys, no cheating etc. Basically if an other guy has any form of sex with the protagonist or any of his romantic interests, I probably won't like it. I don't really like breakups and heartbreak either and I like a happy ending. Breakups can be okay, if it's a mutual one where they both agree that they just won't work out together, or if the protagonists partner is written as an unlikeable character. I don't like breakups due to someone finding someone else, other outside influenses like the girls father won't allow them to be together and stuff like that.
I read Thunder and Ligthening not too long ago, and that story fit me great. The breakup there is a good example of breakups I don't mind.
I also liked Jay Cantrell's stuff, SpacerX, Three Square Meals, Bowling for Hearts, Lady in Red was okay though with some time-skips I didn't much enjoy. I've tried most DoOver stories with a rating above 7, some were good, others not so much. I've tried oyster50's Smart Girls series, but I don't really like his writing style (goes back to I don't like when authors consolidate things. Like how he'll write something like "Giggle. "Lemme try!" Bounce." it just annoys me that he doesn't write "She giggled. "Lemme try!" she said and bounced up." or something like that. For some reason single word sentences like "Giggle." just annoy me), though the stories are good enough for me to ignore that when I don't have much else to read. A Friend in Need was great, and I've read most of Argon and colt45 aswell.
I can't think of anything else to add right now.