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    Good (class) skills for a thief?

    [Kleptographer] Identify and locate items nearby with high value.
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    Kidnaped Princess is rescued and raised by a Dragon.

    Okay, I already have a full idea. Princess is abducted by an antagonistic insurrectionist group with backing from rival kingdoms, Dragon rescues Princess, doesn't know she's a princess, lives somewhere isolated and hard to get to, and the kingdoms believe Princess was kidnapped by Dragon...
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    Writing Prompt Demon Lord's Present

    Exactly what he was hoping for-- a lump of coal.
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    Worst antagonist archetypes?

    I get a little irritated by villains whose entire motivation is to just conquer everything without any thought. Sometimes they have no real reason as to why, other than they want to rule over everything. If you're trying to conquer the world or something then you should at least have some...
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    Chat, I have a funny concept.

    I planned to do this temporarily for an isekai. I'm not sure when I'll get around to it though. The plan is just that he's so unlucky in his life that he's already used to dodging accidents so pretty much every isekai trick just fails like it was just another day to him. I was even considering...
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    Vocabulary Shortage

    I can recite and correctly pronounce antidisestablishmentarianism, hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia and pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis on the spot. But I spent minutes and then gave up trying to remember the word retaliate when I needed it
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    I feel like my views are diminishing

    My first story has 1.1k views on the first chapter, 600 by the second and by ch.44 only 30 views. Granted it's complete crap and that may be the reason. I'm so mad that I only locked in for the later sections and the terrible start chained me down. Still I had a couple really good chapters and...
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    Planning out your story vs winging it chapter-by-chapter

    I want to plan everything, but I get too impatient and want to see if it does well enough to be worth writing, so I just go chapter by chapter and sometimes random inspiration gives me a plot. But sometimes if the idea is too good it makes me start rushing chapters because I want to get there...
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    E

    The problem is that a lot of the time you need to depict injuries/blood but it's not necessarily extreme enough to call gore. If you don't set it you might have a karen or two complaining about the lack of a content warning for something super mild, and if you do set it then it sounds like your...
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    E

    If by 'not that much' you mean like just vague descriptions of injuries and some blood, you definitely need a warning if you're suddenly going to jump up to something extreme, even if you just put a note at the top of the chapter to warn them so they can skip it if they want. First you should...
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    How to pick a title? What kind of titles work?

    For context my first try at writing is shit and had 1k views by the first few chapters uploaded and it followed the title of common isekai like "reincarnated as a ..." My new one has a less wordy title and it barely has 100 views after 4 chapters. Of course that's mostly because it doesn't have...
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    Advice for my new novel..

    There's no real reason for a personality change, he can just start making use of her villainy for good instead. Absolute good or evil doesn't exist, sometimes a goody-two-shoes saint protagonist doesn't have unlimited plot armor to make the world he lives in fall into place of his ideals.
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    Advice for my new novel..

    A contract marriage is at the end of the day a contract marriage. If you don't show them as taking efforts to prepare excuses to stay together if the contract is broken or trying to unreasonably prolong the contract then it's just as what you wrote it as: transactional. Mutual benefit is...
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    Which humanoid monster do you believe represents the deadly sin/of pride?

    Vampires, Lich, Demons, and of course Dragons are probably the most well known to sometimes be insufferably and irrationally prideful
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