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    Do you have a 'main theme' for your stories?

    Most would be instrumentals, custom crafted to the story, but I think, if we could get permission, David Bowie's "Changes" would be the theme for Strange Awakening, playing in the background as they wake up for the first time. Oh, if I can ever find the files (or just decide to restart it - was...
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    Two Types of Villains

    The two types are: Deluded Person Who Thinks He's the Good Guy or Pure Sociopath? I guess... I prefer the earlier versions of Thanos though - the one who claims he saw the Face of Death, and she was the most beautiful and desirable creature in existence. He decided to get her attention, he had...
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    Beast Heroes: What Animal are you?

    Gojirasaurus.
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    Have you ever thought, “What if my story never gets popular?”

    I always hope it does but expect it won't. Working two (or more) part time jobs can have a very similar (and less rewarding, but generally less expensive) effect.
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    ERECT!

    Kind of makes that erector set I played with as a kid seem a bit disturbing...
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    PAY ARTISTS !!

    No, we are only in this together if the writer and artist start out working with each other to create the best product possible - and then both should get money when it sells. Sadly, there are no guarantees of sales, and sometimes the author doesn't have a choice (Pocket FM insists on using...
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    Ever noticed that your character is a pretty crappy person? / What if worldbuilding leads to moral issues?

    I have a story that never got far enough along to post where the MC flat out lies to ... just about everyone, including the reader. He's very unreliable... but also basically a good person, aside from some serious issues with truth...
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    Recommendations Father child adventures

    I've heard its brilliant (and Peter S. Beagle - the guy who wrote The Last Unicorn - wrote something called I See By My Jacket that is sometimes compared to that by critics; not a father-son thing, but a good story about his life on a motorcycle; I've never read Zen and...)
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    How to make friends?

    It always seemed like Victor Frankenstein had the right idea, but then he rejected his new friend, and it decided he was a bad father, not a faithless friend, and set out to ruin his life.
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    What's your opinion on giving constructive feedback for folks who do generate AI slop?

    The only useful constructive criticism in this case is: "Reduce your reliance on AI. Until you do that, nothing I say will be of use to you."
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    Would you click on this?

    Moot question as the picture is not an active link... :devilish:
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    Writer's Block: Does writing a novel on the side allow you to refresh your mind?

    Not EXACTLY. What it does do is give you something else to work on when just not in the mood to focus on that story, but to keep writing. In the essay at the end of one of his Xanth novels, writer Piers Anthony once stated that he keeps several open stories on his word processor. If he hasn't...
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    Is anyone else addicted to the Ranking?

    Apparently I accidentally included a few, or something. Or maybe thought I would be taking a story one way when the characters took it another, and it wound up ranking in the "abandoned" path.
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    Is anyone else addicted to the Ranking?

    I was generally more amused by the stuff I managed to rank in - sometimes I have no clue how I wound up in that category.
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    Class/profession debate

    The one "tougher than a Sherman tank" (according to a creature that should not know what a Sherman Tank was), the one that is based on an illusionist, the one created for Second Edition, or the watered down version from 3e+?
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    Grimdark vs. Nobledark: Which fiction do you prefer?

    Man lives in the sunlit world of what he believes to be reality. But, unseen by most, there is another side, just as real but not as brightly lit. Tales from the Dimside...
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    Ideal length for the first book in a new series?

    Since you plan to release it through KU eventually, yeah, it's gone past the limit as stated above. You really should only go longer than that if you are releasing it as serial fiction (and even then, longer works tend to be broken up into "books" of a set length, much like J. R. R. Tolkien did...
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    Class/profession debate

    Wait, scratch that. I know I have no class. Er... tend to play classless...
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    Grimdark vs. Nobledark: Which fiction do you prefer?

    Never seen nobeldark except in gaming. Would probably prefer it but have no real examples to call upon.
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    Why are cultivation novels usually in the thousands?

    You hire up-and-coming writers to do most of your thinking and half of your writing for you.
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