Recent content by Cossimeri

Sex with someone else's 2023 Ford F-150. Even if it's an inanimate object, the truck was still underage.

I've never written a self-insert before... but this thread actually kind of makes me want to add one lol. Just a burned out bunny girl in a cave somewhere surrounded by empty potion bottles (a stand in for prescription medication). She's got ink-covered fingers and just so much parchment (most...

Using dialogue tags for thoughts has been done forever. I'm not sure what standard you're basing this statement on, but it seems a bit overly pedantic. As for not double dipping with quotations and italics, there may be some merit to that. I personally prefer to use both for thoughts. As...

1. A mix of both. If you know for a fact that something is going to show up, go ahead and add the tag. But remember that tags can actually drive people away from your story too. Sometimes I'll add tags for content I ultimately never end up writing (and then I go back and remove the tag) but I've...

I can respect that. I’m kind of sick of them too… But at the same time it’s a guilty pleasure genre. XD So no matter how sick of the premise I get, I keep reading them (and writing them sometimes too)… so I’m part of the problem lol

? I feel this. When I started out as an author I kept abandoning plot lines just because one commenter would make a hate post. I have a slightly thicker skin these days.

So as the poll suggests, I'm curious how you all handle your prototype stories. By prototypes I don't mean the stories that are unfinished, but rather the ones where you're not completely sold on even the most basic elements. The stories you've written five chapters of and find yourself caught...

I use a yellow/gold Magic Keyboard from Apple. It came with the computer and I have no reason to use anything else.

Plot armor is not bad at all, and is expected. I believe it is simply a complaint that gained prominence as some authors stretched it too far. Characters we were told were normal people were surviving conflicts even Superman would’ve lost a few fingers to. But all main characters have plot...

What if you meet someone cute who thinks it's really adorable when you speak German?

I do one chapter a week-ish. Ultimately sometimes it's two chapters one week and no chapters the next or whatnot. All depending on how much review and repair any individual chapter needs. As long as I get 4 out in a month I feel okay. chapter length for me is somewhere between 2k and 4k...

I do a mix of both. There’s a “plan” but it’s more of a list of key bullet points of events I want to write, in the order I want to write them. I don’t really plan out How to get from one point to the other and instead just kind of let my muse guide that part.

So, seeking advice from women in general isn’t really going to get you everything you’re asking for. Not every woman knows what it feels like to be pregnant. It’s not really an experience we all endure. As for menstruation, I would first ask how often you write your male characters taking a...

Funnily enough I'm in the final stages of preparing a novel I plan to launch this upcoming week. I've written 5 chapters (6 chapters if you include the prologue), currently sitting at just over 15,000 words, and I'm hoping to have first drafts of chapter 6 & 7 finished before Prologue &...

What is the work you want to take over? Is the original author still publishing here or anywhere else? Like I agree you should get permission, but if you can't, perhaps you can consider a derivative work? Like take the things you love about their story and apply it to a story of your own...