Recent content by TheBestofSome

I agree with Missivist on this one, WordHippo is the best thesaurus I've found yet. I've run into situations where I can't find quite the right word fairly often, and WordHippo has saved my ass more times than I can count. Highly recommend it to every author out there. (Not sponsored by the way...

Meanwhile, Tarzan, having been raised by apes:

I don't know anything about Gwyn's story, but it's worth pointing out that the most favorited chapters in your screenshot are chapters one through ten (though a little bit shuffled). My story is the same in that respect, except my chapter nine is replaced by chapter eleven. Most stories' top...

I do it, though I do put the image in question into a spoiler so the people who don't care for it can skip it easily. I also provide a description in text as though there were no reference picture. As for seeing it in other stories, I usually like seeing it, though I have already ignored a...

If I saw that phrase in a story, I wouldn't even register it as odd, even though I've only used the light to look through an envelope maybe once in my life. That said, I feel like most people should be able to make sense of it through context clues even if it's not something they're not...

When I'm writing I always have a thesaurus open in another tab (I use WordHippo), but having one in the editor bar could be handy depending on how it's implemented.

Well, I absolutely adore comments (I try to respond to every one I get), so I'll put my story up for consideration. It starts out as smut for the sake of smut, but my internal storyteller took over pretty quickly and before I knew it I had a story flavored with smut, as opposed to smut with a...

Pretty much right from the word go. It probably helped that it's fantasy, isekai, smut, all the popular tags. I uploaded ...I want to say ten chapters immediately, kept a consistent schedule for something like half a year of first two and then three chapters a week, and had a serviceable cover...

I write harem, so one guess which side of the fence I'm on. That said, I don't like the fake harems (like Quintessential Quintuplets) because eventually the MC picks one of the girls, and all the rest just have to go to hell. Breaks my heart, especially if they're well written. And it's even...

Maybe once a week or so? I don't really keep track of how often I check stats. I do try to check for new comments at least once a day, since I've made a policy of responding to every comment. I'm not really bothered if I don't have a new comment notif, though, possibly because I can be sure of...

Well, if they actually read some of your work then I'd be inclined to take their advice into consideration; I'm only giving general advice based on common pitfalls. Seven main characters is quite a lot to ask your readers to care about right off the bat, though it's certainly doable. One thing...

:blob_melt: :blob_melt: So a not insignificant part of the story will be dealing with the fallout of magic suddenly popping up everywhere whereas before it was kind of a nobles thing and the average pony might have wanted to be able to do magic, but never expected that they could. There's a...

These two options seem pretty decent to me. The first runs the risk of diluting the whole pony subraces thing, but that's not an insurmountable hurdle, just something you'll have to be careful of. For the second, you'll want to be careful to present it to the reader in a way that makes sense...

Hmm. While flight is technically done via magic in the MLP universe, I don't think they think of it like that. From what I remember (you'll have to forgive me, it's been a while since I've seen anything MLP) if you're a pegasus, you're just expected to be able to fly, no questions asked. Same...