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When I had time to write regularly, once I had at least 10 chapters in a story, I posted the first two here (or elsewhere, depending on my whims and where I thought it would fit), and tried to keep 5-10 chapter backlog for each active story (have about nine stories below ten chapters, and five...

I skim for errors, get caught up in a passage, start reading, stop when something doesn't make sense, go back a paragraph, try to fix what was missing, move a few words around, add a few, realize how much time I've spent on this, go back to skimming... repeat. ad infinitum.

The "ball and chain" mace takes a LOT of training and was meant to be used by foot troops against mounted foes. The "spiked club" mace is more intimidating and best used from horseback (kind of like a polo club). For years I had these two mixed up, but we sell both at work.... On foot, a...

As an aside, in my fantasy world, Pyrroth, I toyed very, very briefly with creating new standards - especially after reading the Conrad Stargaard novels by Leon Frantkowski, where his MC is "sold" on a base 12 currency system by the local merchants instead of the base 10 he wanted to use. But...

I try not to. When I can't avoid it, I use the American Standard based on old English Imperial (except the gallons, which are smaller for some strange reason) measurements, as that's what I've used for about 90% of my life (the other ten percent being metric, either in tabletop games or on...

The way I've seen things like this work is you have a section set off from the rest of the text: More like (though condensed): It was on this day, that everything changed. I was with the others; we held each other and jumped. Everything began spinning, spinning. Direction lost all meaning. I...

From the discussions I've had (on both sides of the issue, including actual scientists on both sides), it's closer to religion than politics. But that, too, is dangerous ground.

That sounds more like an origin for a System than just powered individuals - they need to "coax" the potential host to greater heights of power so they will be more likely to survive the possession process without burning out. There may be a risk to the invaders that they get too close to the...

They wound up there somehow, so I created a separate category to shunt them off to.

I will finish a book but drop a series if it's good but preachy (like the Maximum Ride series became when it went from "Coming of Age (with superpowers)" to "Save the ENVIRONMENT from CLIMATE CHANGE and EVIL CORPORATIONS NOW!!!" in the third or fourth (of, I think seven) books.

It Japanese culture, the sword was a huge thing - big enough that the "rebels" developed their own (ninja-to) to "compete" with the noble's weapons (the dai-sho, or "sacred pair" of katana and wakizashi). Nearly every culture developed a sword or sword-like weapon at some point (even if some...

Nice. Probably the number of chapters I'm aiming for in Between Worlds (just over 100 in book one right now; expect it to get to at least 150 before I transition to book two).

As long as it doesn't feel like the author is preaching to me, I rarely notice. If it does feel like they're preaching, then every other aspect of the story has to be exceptional (even if I agree with the message), or I will drop it in frustration.

I prefer chapters to be organic and "as long (or short) as they need to be." In a comedy, you can get away with much shorter chapters than you can in longer fiction, and in some forms of fiction, you really need over 2000 words to complete much of anything. I've been training myself (due to...

I like to see both (generally two characters but can work as one sometimes) myself.

There are too many stories with that in the title (from "Level Up Zombie" to "I Level Up" to an anthology of short stories, to a web site of AI generated LitRPG fiction) for it to stand out (I have the same problem with one of mine, Strange Awakening, but I'm leaving it as-is unless I decide to...

The NaNoWriMo challenge every November is a 50k novel in the course of a month. I did it once (I think 63k words, with two days to spare) - and that comes to about 17.5k a week to hit target.

When I wasn't working, I put about two to three hours a day (on average) into writing, usually netting about three chapters (750-3000 words each) between two or three stories every two days. That was cut in half when I started working (one, part-time job) again, and now (with two part-time and...

Set one up the day before I came to this site, but have never actually used it. Was about 7-12 chapters in all the stories I've posted.

Actually, that's a European standard, and using italics for dialogue is another international thing, blanking on which country uses it, but I've seen it a few times, usually also using a dash instead of a quotation mark so - this is how we write , - he told me, is valid... but jarring for...