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    Birthday

    A birthday party in a trench? In front of a monster? I don't remember that.
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    Ideal Word Count for Chapters?

    Like I said, it's not chapters, it's parts. And as I said, this fixed volume systematizes the writing. Nowhere did I say that chapters of different length should be posted once a week or a day. But there are resources where people publish text by dividing it into meaningful chapters as they are...
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    Ideal Word Count for Chapters?

    The classic way to divide a stream of consciousness into chapters is to highlight a complete thought. It doesn't matter how many words it takes. In a single piece of writing, it can be anything for each chapter. Chapters that are too large are usually divided into episodes and in this...
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    Synopsis

    Trust me any synopsis, like the first chapter, is always going to be bad. And it will always be read by the most people.
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    Best and worst fictional roommates

    It's better to have a room in sole proprietorship. But a girlfriend would be nice. There's nothing worse than a roommate harassing a guy. And fictional characters are too inconsistent to share a room with. Maybe Chip and Dale and the ducklings in miniature I could handle. If you want to go all...
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    When rating something do you see a 5/10 as average or failing?

    I always compare all ballpark systems to a five point scale. There 5 is excellent, 4 is good, 3 is average or fair, and 2 is bad. There's no such thing as a 2.5. But with a score of 10 in several categories, a 7 usually implies some flaws that should have been worked on. Accordingly, a lower...
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    I feel like my views are diminishing

    From reading experience - the suspense is always more interesting than the ending. But it will be impossible to please everyone. Some people will get bored with too much intrigue. Even if it's properly alternated. If you pay attention to some TV series, they keep viewers with the fact that each...
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    Writing What stories do you use as references for your work(s)?

    Everything I've been able to write has been created with a writing style in mind. Voluminous lines with reflections. No borrowing. But what spurred the action looks very raw. So if they can do it, why don't I try.....
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    Let's educate each other on the Strongest Video Game Player Character.

    Any game character becomes an imba if the player uses cheats. If we discuss it within the game stories, they are still all immortal, it's worth downloading a save or starting over. After all, there are puzzles, where everything happens without characters. Vacuum world of cubes - no way to...
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    The Pressure Of Marriage.

    I have lived in your position since I was a young child. My grandfather was a priest and married me from the age of five to almost every girl of the same age he met. Then my father, who left us, started doing this abuse, asking every time we met or called where the grandchildren were. I wanted a...
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    What are peoples thoughts on authors allowing their readers to finish a story for them?

    The author's right to do anything with his story. The problem is the qualifications of those who will try to continue it. Either it will be a community where everything will be solved by joint efforts, or it will turn into the basis of fanfics. Whether that would be better is unclear...
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    I hate that elves live for a 1000 years. I don’t care if it’s the staple. It’s jarring.

    Shakespeare had them in the form of fairies. And in Tolkien's, they're immortal if they don't leave their homeland.
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    I hate that elves live for a 1000 years. I don’t care if it’s the staple. It’s jarring.

    I agree that elves have been given too much. And as a species, they are no better and don't have to live longer than anyone else. Of course, we shouldn't forget about supernatural beings. Dragons, maybe. I would turn to a study of actual biology. Whales with sharks of some species can live...
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    Talk illogical

    All in from the on
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    The Plot without the Protagonist

    You have in one fell swoop eliminated all historical chronicles of any state. And with it, evolution on planet earth. But isn't that how all stories are built, starting with a not-so-great or completely worthless situation and then working up to its ending?
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    Question about rewording an entire story

    That's why it's better to leave reviews, critiques more often and remember to point out in it not only what you didn't like. In fact, there are several criteria that are considered mandatory for remediation. For example: pace of narration (smooth, jumpy, fast), clichéd or stereotypical (too...
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    How to get good at writing

    I, too, look for a way to write well every time I start a new line. After reading a lot of successful bullshit and quality classics that are lying on the shelf unread, I began to think that the ideal text is a sandwich that is coated on all sides with liquid delicious butter. You may want to eat...
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    Is your worldbuilding is populated enough?

    If you remember that you can fit all the people in the world into a cube with a side of one kilometer. And compare the difference between 8 billion now and 40 million in the Middle Ages. That cube shrinks by a factor of 200. All right, that's bullshit. So, in the village where my...
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    A.I. in writing

    You have to work with it a lot to find the right clues and yet become more uncertain about the result. The more original the result or data, the more glitches, regardless of the model. Even if some of them do it better you won't know after a lot of experimentation. What I need is exactly an...
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    A.I. in writing

    I've noticed a problem with this approach. If you swap the listed facts that the AI should use, the result can change. That is, the winner turns out to be “first on the list” instead of “strong”. This is where you have to test or use this as one of many options. Same with comparing different...
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