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Never had more than one character narrate a chapter - unless draconic attempts to do a dramatic narration count, then I do have two chapters of one story where it happens. Have had a few where I had to introduce several characters - and even kill off some of them in the process at least once...

It depends on how sensitive the topic is, how likely people are to get upset by it, and how important it is to the story... For example In Digital Cowboy (Digital Cowboy Dane), I obliquely deal with racism because it was a part of the historical setting the game the character is stuck in was...

Varies by story. But most are something I either would like to be or like to meet or thought I would be at some point, but then twisted sideways...

Hmm... tasty...

I have a tendency to get stuck in one mode for a long time then realize I need to either speed it up, slow it down, or just pray for the perfect storm of situations that J. K. Rowling (who definitely has this same problem) rode to success...

Deckbuilding refers to things like Card Captor Sakura or Yu-Gi-Oh - where a major theme is collecting objects (usually cards, but could be, oh, pokemon) and developing strategies to combine them for battle or other purposes.

I keep looking over my stuff and seeing that I have more Asian and Hispanic characters, and a few Italians, but very few blacks. For one thing, it's difficult to not fall into stereotypes unless using real people (and, sadly, I know some real people who fit the stereotypes) for major characters...

No, the novel The Hobbit does go into the battle in very minor detail, but mostly focuses on Bilbo ticking of Thorin by taking the one treasure he wanted, the Arkenstone. The movie was ... more like how TSR described an AD&D campaign with Battlesystem encounters way back when - you have side...

Think I read that (English translation) but not sure. Definitely read that. Think The King in Yellow was one of the first books I bought for my Kindle. Read at least one of those, probably more. That seems somehow redundant I knew there was a character based on Black Bat (and it wasn't...

I know in art the surrealist movement fed and was fed by the absurdist movement, which dominated drama for a while (especially in France for some reason) and is still present to some degree (The Simpsons at its best is pure absurdist). Have never tried to do more than single scenes that would...

When I wasn't working. most weeks one story would get about half of my writing time, and the rest of my writing time would be split between two or three other stories. It worked, until I started working part time ... and then got a second part time job (which just went to full time last week)...

I didn't, even when I was writing daily... Just put up four or five chapters a week between two or three active stories.

Wattpad didn't used to (be a mess) but evidently there was some drama between the founders of the company and one of the key players left, forcing the others to struggle just to keep it online (a discussion about this collapse is what sent me both here and to SubStack). The person who first...

If your goal is a print novel, then the delayed character intro might work to your favor. As a webnovel, though, getting the character out there, with bare-bones world-building present, is ideal (heck, I have one that starts with the MC being awakened = and he outright lies to the reader about...

No mention of the sound of the wheat rustling in the wind, the dryness of it brushing against her skin?

Mine doesn't even have menus, just a voice that talks to the character (and to the voices talking to other players in the game) and tells him what he asks if it knows and can answer, and what it thinks he needs to know.

You have those stupid "What To Expect/What Not To Expect" bullet points, suggesting that The Butler (AI) was involved somehow - that WILL hurt you, even if it is a false implication,

The best way to do this is the way Tolkien did with The Battle of Five Armies and the way I may have to if I don't find a way to merge a few of the forces in one of my novels on Pocket FM: Cheat. You only see bits and pieces of the conflict, and most of the decisive action involves the MC doing...

ReWRITE? Almost never. Very rarely. ReVISE? Constantly.