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You forgot one: romantic relationship. :) In general, I prefer reading about relationships that are between equals, at least roughly. One may be more of a leader, and the other more of a follower, but that should trend more toward "You have good plans and I support your goals, so I will...

What? 2-3k words to get someone to cry, who is *expecting* you to get them to cry? That's a single chapter to introduce a character, get emotionally invested to a sufficient depth, and then kill them in a way that invoke the proper level of tragedy rather than throwing the reader out of the...

My wife reads and provides edit suggestions. On the day before the chapter goes live, I go through her edit suggestions while re-reading the chapter. This may cause me to add or tweak things not suggested as well as implement most of her suggestions. This sometimes causes minor typos to creep...

They are going to be various levels of secondary and background characters in my future stories. One of which involves their current, adopted teenage daughter, and a possible story that would focus on a not-yet-concieved biological child.

Option 3: It's always about execution. It can be done well, it can be done bad. I have no preference, given that the execution is good. Though this can also be done by using multiple PoVs.

Hmm, I might have something for you, pulling a piece of my own setup, though it is very different than yours. I work with light/darkness as balanced, in and of themselves forces that are not good or evil (though the goddesses in charge of both are good). Part of this balance, which your god...

What ever the time skip needs to be. My biggest time skip was about three months, because they were settled in for the winter. My next serial is going to have a fair number of time skips involved.

While I am using a simple doc to keep track, it's not *just* a document. It's my running Glossary, complete with dividing up into sections. First section: Divinities. Second Section: Mortals. This is then divided up into sub sections such as main cast, secondary cast, , X's family, Y's family...

Yeah, one of my friends is trying his hands at Goblin Girl evolution, inspired by this. I briefly toyed with the idea of trying a Faerie Girl Evolution, but honestly, I have enough on my plate at the moment.

As part of my world building, I decided that souls are a thing born of sufficiently complex/sapient minds. Life produces spiritual energy, and any living thing has a certain amount of spiritual energy around it. Complex life develops more complex spiritual patterns, and it is here that chi and...

I have not tried detailing the specific rules, especially not in a mathematical sense, but I do have some general outlines about how magic and science/technology interact. 1) The rules we know as science are the stable rules, with values that generally change slowly (as in tiny value drifts...

Edit: Whoops, I hadn't looked at dates or the second page of comments. Oh well. Oh, I think my story might work well for you. We have an Old Core, a New Core, and a Half Elf Warrior-Monk. All of them soul-bound due to circumstances, and figuring out stuff as the old core get a fresh start after...

Hmm, well, my story "No Need For A Core?" is romance heavy, and is closed door (so no explicit content). But it is not a romance about teens (though the sequel will focus on a pair of currently teenage characters, but it will see them through becoming adults, so not fully teen either). Mind...

You might want to consider looking into these ammunition types: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_metal_jacket_(ammunition) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armor-piercing_bullet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incendiary_ammunition Have every magazine loaded with, say, 45% AP, 45% FM, and 10%...

I slightly dislike including maternal status in the age categories, as being a mother is highly optional and shouldn't really be seen as a default. Anyway, I chose teen/young adult/middle adult, which fits my writing so far. one FMC starts at 36 (though half-elf, so effectively younger than...

Well, I wrote mine as a serial from the beginning. But if I was going to convert from a book, I would probably start by seeing how large my book chapters are, and see how close they are to serial chapter size. Mind, lots of people post in the 2k-3k chapter size, but you probably do not want...

So, to slightly expand on my experiences, to help give a little bit of a guide to anyone looking to have a publisher: I've been writing my serial for 3 years (started on RR), and I approached both Moonquill and Podium with my stats and links to my stories. I got offers from both, and *then*...

Agent. Get an agent. Always get an agent. (unless going full indie, in which case there is no contract for the agent to negotiate). Also, any 'publisher' charging you money is, at best, a vanity press, which is basically a scam. Money goes from publisher to author. it *never* goes from author...

I mean, a rough genre-description of my serial could be "A slice of life de-gamified dungeon core with cultivation-lite aspects included into all forms of gaining power, with a very strong romantic B-plot" Genres are only a starting point. And someone always write the first of any genre.

Alternatively, you can do a partial re-write while continuing the story, if there are just a few things that really need fixing. I edited my chapters 1-6, yanked out 7 and replaced it with a better idea that I could connect to other things, rewrote 8 to match the changes I had done previously...