Recent content by CharlesEBrown

The specific idea? No, not done before, because some of those properties are just too new for anything like this. The general concept of someone finding themself in a fictional world with special abilities? Been around since at least 1943 (Silverlock), with one of the most successful (and...

I grew up on comic books so kind of tend to think this way - in story arcs and episodes rather than just plain "stories" - though I've only posted two stories in this model (Strange Awakening- though I didn't really know what it was when I started it - and True Blue)

Those mixed things are correct. All of them, good and bad.

Serious answer: Scripts. Well, two of the four types at least. One type is the straight dramatic script where you front-load descriptions, use minimal details beyond that, and trust the actors and directors to come up with something at least as good as your vision. I am horrible at this...

Unless you want everything to be in the service of a greater plot, look to episodic television shows like Rawhide or Star Trek or Wagon Train - shows that had most of the cast going from point A to point B either between episodes or during the course of an episode. See how it is done there -...

Including a link here might help... Though, given the other comments in the thread, maybe not so much...

Note that I'm going by what I have been told for part of that - only have one story near the 50 chapter mark here (have two over 100 at Pocket FM though... that is a different dynamic though - there it seems frequent posting is the ONLY key, unless they choose to promote your story, to increase...

I had a mental block regarding romance for several years until I sat down and read a few. Only finished about 1/3 of the ones I read, because most of them were either the rubbish I'd expected or devolved to softcore (or not so soft core) porn fairly quickly, and that's never been my "thing" -...

You should get a small bump when your chapter count is in the 20s, a bigger bump at fifty and the biggest at around 100.

I may be able to skip this one - about the only things my short stories (unlike my long fiction, which can be confusing ... sometimes even for me... oops... :D) have NOT been accused of is being confusing. Too long? Yep. Too short? Yep. (Sometimes the same one...). Too vague of an ending...

Consistency.

If you were talking to one or more scammers and someone reported them, you probably got caught in the net when they were banned.

While you are correct, most artists do study the works of others, either to learn what to emulate, or what to avoid. Creative Writing classes can help this if run well (or crush this if run poorly, by focusing on works the teacher likes instead of ones that are timeless examples, or by avoiding...

I believe the best way to include links is either: 1) A separate post, a one chapter "launching page" with links to the reading file and the audio. 2) Author's Notes on each page as it's read 3) A Spoiler tag.

I think they get offended if you ask to talk to a different office. At least from comments I've seen on the Discord.