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That's kind of brilliant, like how, before Howard Hesseman left and Billy Connolly took over, Head of the Class always featured a small history lesson (except on the once-a-season musical episodes, though even those were usually historically significant in some way, like Hair). Heck, for a...

Ah no, not true at all - romance stories were bordering on porn long before Twilight was published, let alone its fan fiction written. Harlequin even spun off a sub-line of Spicy Romance Stories to cater to that side back in the late 80s or so (at least that was the pub date of the one my wife...

Currently on this site bouncing between Cameron To Candy | Scribble Hub and I Blinked and now I’m Famous | Scribble Hub Also have a "listening rotation" of audionovels (whenever I hear the "caching" sound of coins being spent I move on to the next in the rotation rather than running out of...

The thing that amused me most about it was the author's frank statement that it started as Twilight fan fiction - her whole premise was "What if Bella and Edward met as adults instead of high school students?" And then she replaced "vampirism" with "s&m," changed all the names, and had a hit on...

Those also cover a large chunk of the webnovels (especially werewolf romance - that could almost generate its own freaking website), at least if Pocket FM is any indicator. Also the "Secret/Instant Millionaire" and "Contract Marriage" stories. The only reason I don't constantly throw shade on...

I don't think your issue is world building - I think it's character model. To be that blase about things, she'd need to be more than "a little chill," maybe something like The Dude in "The Big Lebowski." Look for a character or three who have the attitude you want and see how the author or actor...

Yeah - when I had an unidentified corona virus (we were in Australia at about the same time COVID-19 escaped China, on a ship with a lot of Chinese nationals, so I have my suspicions but no proof, about two months before it hit full pandemic status) I was unable to do anything but stagger from...

Have seen some screen shots of manga or anime using hp and mana bars but not XP bars. In a non-visual medium it seems like an awkward thing to deal with. Usually, the character requests a Status Update or Character Sheet to find out their current XP and how much they need to level up (I avoided...

AI as collaborator would be more accurate, since you'll have to put almost as much work into the prompts to have anything coherent and cohesive over time as you would have writing it yourself. I think I have about 20 paragraphs that were exactly what the AI suggested in one story, and about ten...

My titles are generally either a reminder to myself what the chapter is supposed to be about (if I start with the title), wordplay of some sort relating to the transition between the last and current chapters, a song reference of some sort, or something I slapped on at the last minute just to...

There is a series of books you are quite likely aware of, with a guy who is isekaied into a flying reindeer, more or less, after applying for a job online. Yes, that is an Isekai - closer to the common usage of the term than, say, the animation series Suicide Squad: Isekai. which actually puts...

Technically I have two stories contracted with Pocket FM - but they've had issues getting money to me, and I haven't been able to keep up with the contracted release schedule so they're kind of on hold at the moment. Now, if you're looking for advice on places to go online - had a free booklet...

You might want to either remove the quoted section or spoiler it yourself, BTW...

I would have to toss out a list for each separate project. Biggest influences would be the first things I was exposed to (other than children's books) - Lord of the Rings and The Chronicles of Narnia. Another big influence would be comic books, specifically the comic books put out by the...

Most of the poor hygiene stuff was from after the medieval period, IIRC - though the cities themselves were filthy, horrible places most of the time, the people themselves were fairly clean (kind of like how cats are very clean animals but leave their surroundings a disaster). Later...

OK, first, you don't want a "good" synopsis unless the story is finished - you want an EFFECTIVE one, one that at least hints at your ability as a writer and suggests the framework of the story. Oh, and feels like it was written by a human and not an LLM. This feels like it was written in a...

Douglas Adams was brilliant - even if he often pirated his own work (the radio plays for the Hitchhiker's Guide are significantly different from the TV show and from the books, and the Infocom text adventure and the movie - which he only co-wrote but still... Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective...

Dodson (Lewis Carrol's real name) included a lot of hidden stuff, mostly mathematics and chess related, in his works. Now, exactly what they mean and how he included them... that is up for debate/discussion. The Jabberwocky was the first poem I ever memorized and the only one I can usually...

Wow. Closest I had was "Why is this (support character) still alive? He's annoying!" and a few other comments along those lines. The character was arrogant, unlikeable and ... blanking on the term now, but being cheated on by his assigned romantic partner. But... well, I had plans for him...

Only three? There's probably three per chapter if I'm being really honest... Just about everything I've ever read informs everything I write to some degree.