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    Writing What is the apocalypse lore in your fiction?

    Unless they changed it greatly, the story is both more and less complicated than you state. Ignore the Tyranids and the Necrons, as they fall outside of the core conflict (and are older; the Tyranids are the original virus at the core of creation that will eventually consume it all; the Necrons...
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    Writing management

    I'll be getting there with one of mine eventually... Just added a group of Army Rangers and a bunch of religious types to the core group of six... And those six will be replaced with five others fairly soon... But four of those five haven't been born yet... so it gets complicated.
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    I finally hit 100 readers.

    Ah, but how many hit you back? And how hard?
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    An idea I had

    Did you ever see a television show called "Monk"? It had a relationship between the main character and his original nurse, Sharona, is probably similar to Alex and Nathan (except Adrian Monk has such severe OCD coupled with multiple phobias... well, it pretty much works out the same way but in...
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    Fanfics and Monetization

    Hey! Just because it all feels like the same smutty ground being retread, doesn't mean it IS the same smutty ground being retread...
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    The thing about WAR Novel

    I grew tired of it in the second season myself (actually once they reached the CDC it kind of started to bore me) - but making Rick the MC was a showrunner choice; the original comics didn't have a central MC - because nobody lived long enough to become one.
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    The thing about WAR Novel

    Options: 1) Go the war commentator route - your character (or characters) narrate the story. Their awareness of the war grows as the scope rises and the importance of the war sinks it. 2) Don't worry about it - your character(s) only experience part of what's going on, so only share those parts...
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    Writing Who is the Narrator in Your Fiction?

    It varies. Kelly (Strange Awakening) is pretty much telling the reader what happened, kind of live, kind of past tense. Jack Diamond (Diamond in the Rough, Blood Diamond) narrates stories that happened in his past. True Blue is ... complicated. There is a framing narrative with the child of...
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    If your main character had to survive a zombie apocalypse…

    Strange Awakening: Sparrow's first costume was pretty useless - no strategic padding, a bit too much skin showing, and a mask that didn't stay in place. She'd probably be stuck with that, and the zombies would still be in trouble. Especially after she died and came back as a they... True...
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    Spambots

    It does seem pretty random. Three of the four I've had were on "My Stubs"...
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    Writing management

    Ever expanding Google Doc files mostly.
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    We don't need AI Slop illustration [RANT]

    We don't need slop illustrations We don't need no slop AI No computer working on the story Hey, PC, leave that book alone! All in all It's just an AI Brick in the wall.
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    How was your april fools? Mine was great!

    And, if you find the passage inside your brain, you can remove the logic circuit so that you can simultaneously have TEA and NO TEA. That probably works for writing too...
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    What’s one mistake you made early as a writer that you wish you avoided?

    Wish I'd kept more notes on story ideas. Had a lot of stories I started or plotted out and then lost the only pages of notes I had (or floppy disks, or software to read the files, or the entire hard drives) and now I don't remember enough to rebuild them, nor really care enough to start them...
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    Is it okay if i just take a long break?

    Not "have to" - might be forced to by the little ones if you have any.
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    How traumatized is your main character?

    Lets see... One was a Marine Sniper who served in Afghanistan. Then got executed for killing the guys who raped and almost murdered his sister when he got back home. So, he's pretty traumatized. One ... woke up to discover he's now a woman. With superpowers. And apparently some grand...
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    What three things made the core of your story?

    Each story is "grown" out of a core challenge I issue myself: 1) Can I write a(n)... Isekai? Romance novel? Story based on a single scene? Mix of two or genres? Then that is followed by: "What can I do differently from what I've seen everywhere else?" make that Isekai a Western Tweak the...
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    Scribblehub Author Culture

    The only author culture I am aware of here is what is growing in that petri dish...
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    I'm suspecting a Chuck Norris virus

    Since Norris died a few weeks ago, I suspect his ghost is behind this. Otherwise, I'd be pretty sure it was that pernicious demon, Loof Lirpa.
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    It's time....

    Ah, so you're NOT Kilroy? (STAND DOWN, MEN...)
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