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    Gaining views and active readers

    Frequent, public blood sacrifices to the demon god Vah'ni-tae.
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    Writing How to write a Character that is a poet?

    Actually, the definition of poetry is a bit fluid. I've seen "tonal poems" "free verse" "traditional rhymes" and even "ballad structure" poems over the years. Just show the character has a love of words and an artistic tendency and you should be fine.
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    Rating isn't Everything

    According to our cats, ratting is everything
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    Does writing novel longer make us lose our ideas and exhausted?

    The exhausted part is very real but running out of ideas doesn't happen (or won't for the remainder of my life, which is likely another decade or so). I used to be the regular game master in RPGs so always had to have an idea ready, even if it wasn't my own idea to start with, and that taught me...
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    Does writing novel longer make us lose our ideas and exhausted?

    Not here - but then I had people tell me how hard writing was, how impossible it was to make a living at it (they seem right on that point), etc. And getting involved in role-playing games helped a lot with the "running out of ideas" thing - whenever I don't have one of my own, I steal borrow...
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    What's the hardest part of being a writer to you, and what common writer woes don't make sense to you?

    Finding the time to write when I have the energy and ideas. Unfortunately, the three things tend to come at different times altogether... especially because, once I start writing (or editing even), I tend to get lost in the process, so can't do it when time is critical. A close second is...
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    Dumbest Comments You've Gotten

    Not bloody many, and most of the ones I had wound up deleted when stories migrated to Pocket FM...
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    Writing Prompt What dost thou do when the pterosaurs attack?

    Conjure yon waters so ye plesiosaurs can feast 'pon them.
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    Writing How to write a Character that is a poet?

    Oh, look for the play "Cyrano de Bergerac" by Edmund Rostand (The film adaptations are good but don't really show how to write the character, and the Steve Martin version, Roxanne - while a lot of fun, and true to the spirit of the story, does not really reflect him as anything but a great guy...
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    Are isekai fans too impatient?

    That's called "AI" and you can find examples of it on Pocket FM... Though if you REALLY want a literary "paint by numbers" find the group (real-world academic group) that is responsible for "Gothic Romance" novels. I had a teacher in college whose wife tried to write one. They sent her a long...
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    Time machine!!! The first book you wrote

    First attempt made it to three chapters before I decided it wasn't worth going further at the time ('81 or '82, so I was about 14). First attempt I finished was a pretty blatant mashup of Lord of the Rings + Dragonlance + generic video game tropes justifiably rejected by the only agent I sent...
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    Dumbest Comments You've Gotten

    Been lucky so far. Only dumb comments I've gotten were on Facebook, and not for writing...
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    What are SH writers reading?

    Ah yes, the "apologies, we're returning Lord Soth to you, Weiss and Hickman" novel... :biggrin_s: P. N. Elrod's Strahd novels were some of the best in that line, those, the origin of Azalin and the "Jekyll and Hyde" novel were, for me, the only true stand-outs.
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    patreon word is vanishing

    Because people were "cheating" and inserting links in Author's notes or even in the text, sometimes with a word misspelled, but still a link to a payment site (things like using P@treon to hide a patreon link, or k0f1 for kofi to get around "scrubbers" removing the links).
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    How's my cover and synapsis?

    Maybe they all read E. R. Edison's The Worm Ouroboros, where the noble class of Venus are all called "demons" for no apparent reason?
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    When Should You Create Short Stories -- The Five Problems Short Stories Solve

    Heh. I had an idea for a short story that I had no real plan what to do with ... until the thought of inserting it in a longer story, as a kind of an aside that is a little relevant to the main story hit me...
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    Are isekai fans too impatient?

    Shocked, he replied: "I had no idea you felt that way about sheep. Let's start a farm together!" She sighed. "You are a moron. I said 'you' not 'ewe'." "You want to plant a yew tree?" "You don't have your hearing aids in, do you?"
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    I want to (attempt) to traumatize my readers. but is it allowed?

    You REALLY want to traumatize them ... get them hooked on your story, then disappear for a year or two...
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    Story Final

    In broad strokes the ending is usually in my mind (there have been a few exceptions), but it almost always takes a few turns in different directions and needs a lot of revision before I get there.
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    [Quick Q/A]

    Even then it might not. I know two teachers (one my own brother) who make use of AI in their lessons, and often encourage their students to use it, but SPARINGLY. One of them even did an interesting experiment with it - he had an AI make a poster for a movie that didn't exist, a film noir...
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