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So basically Ash Ketchem of Pokemon? Has to find his subjects and "capture" or negotiate with them first, or does he just have the ability to summon ... well, something, maybe exactly what he needs or maybe just what happens to be available?

I know D&D took a lot of liberties but pretty sure the Peryton has the shadow of a human female, the body of a bird of prey, and the head of a stag. That looks more like a hybrid of two Egyptian deities (blanking on which ones - used to be really into that but it was a few decades ago).

Healing. Speaking in Tongues. Walking on water. Feeding the masses from modest amounts of food. Turning water to wine. Raising the dead. Casting out evil spirits. Repelling evil spirits. None of which are unique to Christianity, mind you (for that matter, about 2/3 of the world's...

Also a lot of European titles, unless the translation software is forcing things. Most of the time, they even use the terms of nobility more accurately than a lot of Western writers (was surprised when one correctly explained the difference between a Duke and a Baron - but then did get Baronet...

One of the most successful Japanese story franchises, Dragonball, was directly inspired by Chinese literature (Into the West, the story of Sun-Wukong, the Monkey King; Sun-Wukong translates into Japanese as "Son Goku")

At least you're getting engagement beyond a rare "Thanks for the chapter" - that's something.

Indian as in "Native American" or Indian as in "Based on stuff like the Bhagavad Gita, etc."? There was a two-chapter short story up here based on Hindu mythology that was pretty good, and another that only got to about six chapters based on Tibetan myths that had the potential to be great but...

I usually don't myself, but this thread got me to thinking some people might, and the shift I mentioned, from following a cat to following a human was BOTH scene and POV so maybe sometimes it is, but it usually is just a scene change. If I ever get back to the series, the fourth Jack Diamond...

I didn't see the worst of it myself, because I didn't make many ripples in my two attempts (and kept a fairly low profile on the forum there), but I've been hearing stories, especially shortly after I stopped going there regularly, that show the toxicity and tiering in full force.

It's often more of a SCENE shift than a POV shift in third person, though sometimes the narrator "rides in the head" of a character and allows their perceptions to shape the narrative a bit. Very difficult to do, and painful when done poorly (likely for the character, definitely for the reader...

From what I gather, there are competitive "tiers" there - once you get into a tier, people there will defend you, but until you do, they will try to keep you from getting there any way they can, including reporting posts or chapters, using ratings bots to downvote your stories, etc. And the...

Literal grease or is this some kind of in-setting drink or something else entirely? Is this a thought from Silk or a editorial comment? Or is this a sudden shift from third to first person? Not sure here, but I think "all right" is more appropriate than "alright." Should either change the...

I take it you haven't read Wheel of Time books three through six?

I was trying to figure out how to say exactly this, but you beat me to it (and probably said it better than I would have). Actually I did do this in a chapter and it was ... pretty much ignored. The first third of the chapter is from a cat's point of view, since he's alone, searching his...

Note the thread title does not state the TYPES of balls. Maybe it only sucks the balls of your feet, or mothballs, or sour balls...

When I get into writing, I lose track of everything else for a while (one reason I stopped trying to write during breaks at work). When I get in that state, it doesn't matter if I'm alone or there are ten people in the room - unless one of them somehow distracts me, and then I will usually get...

Yeah - when I do that, about 2/3 of the time it's just bad doggerel, the other third it's decent, but too personal to share while I'm alive.

I can't stand my own poetry. I've tried in the past but it just was not good. Nothing against anyone doing it - Tolkien did it well, and Weiss and Hickman made some good use of it in their stories (though they had their poetry set to music), for example, and James Joyce often seemed to cross...

You really should post it to this site if you're trying to find readers here. I had a Western Isekai with a System up for a while - wound up moving it over to Pocket FM though myself,

My wife listens to a bunch of those crappy YouTube channels with AI generated "stories" that offer the following advice: 1. Keep any large sums of money secret until you MUST reveal they exist 2. Always have hidden skills. 3. Document everything 4. Have a close friend who is or knows either an...