Recent content by Dawnathon

I'm still trying to figure out this webnovel format. It's a lot different from story blogs and forums I used to use. The story I'm posting on SH hasn't gotten any traction, and poking around has me making a few guesses as to why. Nonstandard cover art that isn't appealing, a prologue that asks...

My first real writing was some fanfic I poured my heart and soul into, not sleeping at night for a few days and only taking brief naps before going back at it. And it sucked, completely awful in every way. Everyone had power levels in the ten-quadrillions, fights lasted for thousands of epochs...

I wish Thesaurus.com worked well for me. I'm always stumped on words that it doesn't like to admit they exist. It heavily favors colloquial words and phrases above accurate ones. For example, if you look up "bewitch", you will never get "ensorcell" nor "sorcell" to appear in the list...

I just needed some website to start posting a story, and SH came up and wasn't RR. I heard RR uses your stories for AI training without a way to opt out. With all the other stuff I've heard about the place, I didn't see any reason to pretend the red flags aren't flapping loud in the wind. I...

Way back when I finished my first story, I was happy to move on to the next one. I tend to think of longer, slower plotlines that take a lot of investment to see them through. I also end up thinking of many, many more stories in the middle of writing one. I have enough restraint to not drop...

I just write how much I need to give the necessary information for the chapter. It usually ends up around 2.5k for less dense events, 3.5k for when a lot more is going on. Interludes and some very sharply written chapters can hit 1.5k or under, but those are the exceptions. For webnovels...

I had originally wrote a certain character's surname as a reference to some obscure indie game, one that doesn't even have 50 reviews on Steam, because I like small nods like that. Then I realized with how the plot was developing, their family name was going to be plot critical and appear a lot...

So you could entrust me with all of the power. Don't worry, I'll put it to good use ♥

Extremely AI like, because I really would like to know how any human would consider this a twist in an isekai. It would be like saying a romance has a twist of two characters falling in love

Could just be because of cultural norms that somehow led to a very powerful, exclusive group of women in charge. There's some historical precedents for it. Probably the most famous would be the "Spartan Heiresses" that at times had more social and financial power than even the kings. For a...

Some of the scariest real life horrors are the ones that make sense why they happen, while also being things the victim had no control over. One that's always stood out to me was the use of non-functioning anesthesia but fully-functioning paralytics during intensive surgeries. You see...

I'd rate it somewhere between a 2 and a 9. Maybe even between a 3 and an 8...

Sure, go ahead. VoraCity It's a writing experiment more than anything else. Content aside, the first chunk of the story goes on for a long time in this weirder subject matter before becoming a very different kind of story. It gatekeeps the people who would like the later character-driven...

From one of my not-web-novel works, the most memorable villain is less a direct antagonist, and more a force of nature personified. She drifts in and out of the scope of the story, with enough remnants of her actions being seen throughout the setting. When she is actively antagonizing anyone on...

There's definitely nothing inherently wrong with it, but you have to look at it from the reader's POV. If there's a 9k word prologue that is anything short of captivating, they might just interpret it as being bad at pacing and click off. They're also going to be a lot more likely to skim...