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As far as I can tell, what is considered "cultivation" is a hybrid of Buddhism and Chinese Taoist alchemy. It usually leans towards the latter (with the "alchemical processes" usually used to refine the user's body - though sometimes there are actual pills and potions involved, it is generally...

When I was younger I might have made a passable go at it (and likely failed miserably). Now, at my age, with my health issues? The movie M.A.S.H. had a song that sums up my most logical course of action as the theme song...

"I wonder if you might not have turned out a very different boy indeed if you had administered a few fatal beatings earlier."

Could look into the Egyptian mystic system, with the Ka, Ba and ... third one I keep forgetting. Or even European or Taoist alchemy for terms and ways to define effects.

That can refer to children, or as an (archaic) derogatory form for ... well, short people. That, or it's just a hard hobbit to break.

I tackled it by writing two chapters ... and then putting it on a back burner for ... almost a year now.

It would probably kill him from strain, but David West has the raw potential to wipe out planets if he tried, and Lor'I'Anar is not far behind... Though the gods might interfere and stop them. (Between Earth and Pyrroth). Though he has not put in an appearance, Tennigrath, Lord of the Void...

You mean print? The first major arc (Book One though I didn't denote it as such) of Between Earth and Pyrroth wrapped about a month ago on Pocket FM, and immediately laucnhed into the second arc (in my head, the entire story was supposed to be three books long but it now will be four, two for...

Not familiar with the manga, but I was once challenged to write a different ending to "Les Jeux Sont Faits" (a novel by Sartre where a terrorist and a party girl meet after death, fall in love, and get a chance to go back to their lives; if they can get back together within a set number of days...

It depends on what you're trying to do - I've attempted both, and, honestly, each has its challenges (even more interesting is having a first person narrator who was your gender but now is not and is trying to come to grips with this). In general, its easiest to write what you know, and that, in...

Depending on the depths of the comments, either in Author's notes, actual comments, or an outside WIKI.

So sounds like a Cultivation system inspired either by the same sources as or literally by XNPC (world suddenly becomes a game world. either overnight or in a very short period of time). An arbitrary group, either a real church or an organization passing itself off as a religious group (c.f. The...

Depends. Are they BETA readers or just Readers? Did they sign contracts? Oh, and are you feeding them?

There are also methods less likely to result in restraining orders. Or so I've heard.

And it would be a very amusing scam if they said that on a BL story...

It was in the 90s, started on a BBS and moved to phone calls, over one month. They considered turning the guy in, but then figured they'd see if they could get something from him instead... and pulled it off.

Nice! Not as cool as the two guys I know who worked together to get $200 from a scammer as a bribe for the "FBI Agent" one of them pretended to be to not report the incident to his superiors...

If they changed the signage from "Dollar Tree" to "Buck Twenty Five Tree" they'd have had to raise prices again even sooner. It's now everything is less than $20 and very few things are over $10. Not QUITE as bad as our neighbor, which went from "Five Below" (everything $5 or less) to "Five...

I was glad I wasn't drinking anything when it happened. Had a customer last week whose order came to $96.69 At a dollar store...

If everyone awakens automatically with no special actions, then this is not only not complex, it is very limiting and boring. You really only have two ways to go with it: The MC is awakened at a ridiculously high level, threatens the cosmic order by his or her very existence and has to fight...