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Depends on what you write. Children's stuff, you probably need about a two year break. "Normal" stuff probably four or five. If you write smut, well, you want them to be old enough to read it if they accidentally come across it, right?

Just thinking "Rational Obstinance" would make a great band name...

Literally the word means "Other Place" IIRC - so any portal fantasy could TECHNICALLY be an isekai... common usage, though, has a character transferred SOMEHOW to another world via death or a near death experience (so one of the earliest isekai would be Burroughs John Carter novel series)...

My isekai character's attitude is a bit blase about it. He thought he was going to be executed, but instead finds himself in a Western. Sort of. More or less. With a System. And sometimes access to other settings. But he was a Marine, and he just plugs along, doing what he sees as his duty...

That's one way to look at mathematical limits. Wait - you're back in school, aren't you?

Only about 1/3 of the isekai I've seen have the character wanting to go back. Most, either it's just not an option (e.g. they died in their original world), or they prefer the world they've jumped into... well, a small number assume it's a dream or delusion at first and then seem to forget...

Eh, it happens. Some readers may think it's the best arc in the story, while others will agree with you. You might lose a few, but might gain a few m more, so just keep on plugging. I have a few arcs I'm not very happy with - resolved too quickly, dragged on too long, or just flat-out didn't...

Heh. In Between Earth and Pyrroth, I kind of alluded to this... One character asks the guy they're interrogating if he ever saw the movie Dragnet. He asks what that could possibly have to do with anything, and the character replies: "Remember the interrogation scene? There just happens to be...

Somehow reminds me of a story I started reading but never got back to on Royal Road - in a world where professional dungeon explorers exist, one man thought he'd escaped "the life" - you send an avatar into the game, grind for rewards, get back out and get paid. He was retired, he was out of...

Misleading thread title but... To answer the question - consume a variety of media and not just one type. See what works and what doesn't, and try to balance. I have some scenes with a lot of light banter - characters who know each other well tossing jibes back and forth for example. The...

Harry Potter was just Tom Brown's School Days mixed with the early 20th Century "English School Kids Find Magical World" stories (E. Nesbitt, C. S. Lewis, etc.).

I just pants it, which does sometimes lead to massive revisions later (especially when things are happening on two worlds at roughly the same time), but, eh...

Conditional. Not all LitRPGs have systems (though all have mechanics, they may be presented only to the reader and not the characters, or the characters may be aware of them from the outset - or never truly fully aware of them and not all stories with systems are LitRPGs. For some examples: 1...

Depends on how they're tied in. Is it a form of wordplay? Then that's how consumable material components tended to work in earlier versions of D&D (now you get a "Focus" - a single item that powers the spell or spells and isn't consumed in casting) - you rubbed fur with a glass rod to generate...

Aye - maybe a name change to "ALittleProudOfMySmut"?

But, much like smut, brainrot may be in the eye of the beholder...

Yes, but people can train themselves to walk without those visual cues. Having your clothes disappear is funny... At least to everyone else in the room...

Lots of shady stuff there... kind of deserves the nickname. One of my favorite cursed items to give out in D&D type games is the Flawed Ring of Invisibility. The first time you use it, it turns you invisible. Every other time you use it, it only turns your gear, your clothing and anything...

Can't believe I didn't think of this before - but wouldn't "Bot" or "Drone" be a fitting "swear word" in this setting, given the tendency to become one if you resist the murderhobo imperative?

It did last time I checked. I forgot to when I posted True Blue on Royal Road but had already posted the first eight chapters of Diamond in the Rough here before copying it there, and this site has a strong DMCA option (also a weak one or a no-rights-reserved one IIRC) that you can pick when...