Recent content by Emotica

Remember to put something in your will so when you pass, your grandchildren are either obligated to carry on your legacy, or sacrifice your drafts to the nearest volcano. Either one works.

I'd argue that you have to write for the demographic you want. The "I'm not reading allat" crowd isn't loyal, or profitable, at least not for literature. It's an opportunity cost, because if you appeal to that crowd too much, you never know what opportunity you're missing from another crowd...

I mean, 3 is the number if you want to see it that way. A country has areas, and those areas have areas, but you know it doesn't end there. If you zoom all the way out, there would be galaxies, then star systems, then planets, then continents, then countries, then states, then cities, then...

That's why I always outline. Even if I start off winging it, I typically outline so I see if the story has anywhere to really land. I wrote 35 chapters once, completely winging it, and then decided to never make that mistake again.

I've seen people willing to die for their fanfic, but I'll assume you mean the original 😂 Okay, To be fair, this is easy to say if you have 175k on your one "horny" story that seems to be three books put together 😭 Congrats. I was gonna say that I don't have enough desire to write something so...

I'd honestly think if you're an avid reader, that it requires more attention span to read individual sentences on individual lines than it would take to read a 5-7 sentence paragraph. Studies on how reading actually works suggests to me that every time that you arbitrarily start a new line...

I'd say it's about intent. Flawed characters make mistakes. Shitty characters never learn or do awful things on purpose repeatedly.

Obviously you need to add that secret ingredient, love, to really bring your story to life, but if your works are your children, do you have a secret favorite? I absolutely do. My favorite ongoing novel gets the least views, maybe because it isn't complete, maybe because it's mostly SFW, but...

Should be any minute now.

It automatically merged 🤷 The future is now.

When is he coming back?

Anything? Lemme think. I was born in West Philadelphia. I spent a lot of time on the playground, just relaxing and playing basketball outside school. One day a couple of guys started causing trouble and I got into a fight, so of course my mom got scared, so I got sent to live with my aunt and...

On the contrary, I think you don't need to justify yourself after the fact, if you put the effort in in the first place. I don't think it's ever worth arguing about creative expression after the fact. Art's job is to be interpreted and spark conversation, the creator diving back into the...

Thanks for the detailed responses. I've got my homework now. You're really good at breaking down these concepts. There's a lot I still don't understand, but I think that's more from information overload. I'll have to retrack my steps a few times, but your explanations already gave a pretty good...

I'm also missing two stories, so we shall see. I also haven't received a response. At least time is an illusion. In a way, the email will be responded to, and has always been responded to if it ever was. It's just a matter of perception.