Recent content by Zagaroth

Absolutely. I rarely do so 'from scratch', most of them could be looked at as extremely heavy editing, but there are a couple where I opened up a new document and started writing the events over on a blank sheet.

I am not sure I could write in that order. By having characters, I have actions, motivations, and goals. This also gives me questions to answer about the world around them, letting me develop the setting. Between the characters, the setting, and the character's history, I have enough...

Character, because the plot develops off of who the character is and what they are doing. I find my antagonist in my characters' back story, whether directly or indirectly. Every antagonist is developed after the protagonists are, and have some sort of link to at least one of the protagonists...

Yeah, I've tweaked sections for clarity more than a few times. Especially if my wife's initial edit pass shows that she misunderstood something.

Just me? Absolutely not. Now, if I could go with my wife and preferably our cats, sure. If just my wife, then we need to make sure the cats are taken care of first. And I would absolutely pick my own world. Brand new characters would work best for a lot of reasons, one of them being that...

Alright, mine is a bit of a hybrid between Dungeon Core, Progression Fantasy, and Fantasy-Romance (there's a romance central to the plot, but it is not built on romance tropes). "No Need For A Core?", and I will need to stub the first volume (Up to CH 44) right before November, probably on...

Hmm, based on OPs description, I am not sure even No Epic Loot qualifies. Everything loops back to her dungeon, but her existence is driving political and military action in the world, and she ends up interacting with other dungeons as well. Oh, and Fox*, that one is a Royal Road story...

I think you are going to find this one difficult to fulfill. Without the other elements that deviate away from a 'pure' dungeon story, it's really hard to create a strong plot. The endless challenge of building an ever deeper and more well defended dungeon works fine for a strategy based game...

Assumption: I can choose *any* deity I know of as my divine patron. Given that assumption, priest/cleric.

But that's MoonQuill, not Royal Road. They now have an arrangement to make it easier for authors to submit to MoonQuill, but that's not RR paying anyone, and as you pointed out, MQ isn't publishing fanfiction.

When I started, no, because I needed to just get the ball rolling. But by world building as I write, I see more and more of the world and how the bits connect, and I was able to start putting down major plot points and figure out roughly what my ending was going to look. This have been...

Personal goals. This one is sort of a hiding-in-plain-sight trait that's easy to miss, but part of characters being interesting is that they have personal goals. They don't have to be big ones, they can be little ones, such as getting better at a specific skill or hobby, but they still have...

Yeah, you'll get these occasionally. They'll even follow your account to make themselves seem more sincere.

Oh no, ask the stuff is made up. Xianxia is not a single setting, there are lots of ways of interpreting it. Of your setting has a mostly unified culture, you probably want to create a uniform naming convention. Of your story is very diverse, then it would be more appropriate to have...

They don't pay authors anything, what are you talking about?