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Have you considered giving the chapters titles with a timestamp - say "4.23.96. Peter Wakes Up" "5.18.97. Peter Robs Paul" "6.1.98 Peter Pays Mary" and then sorting them in whatever order feels right when finished?

The other reason, and this is often why some performers work under stage names, is to avoid associating what they do with their family. Though sometimes this does not go as planned. For example, one Detroit area performer took his father's middle name and his mother's maiden name as his stage...

It seems like a cool, useful feature but one other site - Watppad I think - was working on a feature like this for three years and finally went live with it back in October, so it might not be as easy to code as it sounds (IIRC - only attended half of the meeting announcing it and have only seen...

Are you planning this as a traditional novel or a webnovel? As a trad novel, 8 chapters of set-up is reasonable; heck, some of the Harry Potter novels take over a dozen before you really get into the story - but you already have a "captive" audience, someone who either bought or checked out the...

As an aside and by way of explanation, when I first showed an interest in writing, mom just smiled and walked away, and dad gave me the impression that his teachers had encouraged him to be a writer but he never liked it until he took a journalism class in college, and, after about four years of...

Maybe they were plucked out of their world to compete for the right to go back home. The book pages actually include clues to do just that without winning, but they are encouraged to fight each other and use the pages offensively to complete little tasks and gain advantages so they aren't...

Not completely sure I succeeded. Kind of stalled writing due to life getting in the way - and at a moment when a not-too-close friend is about to reveal he's a spy (but because he does NOT want to betray the MC ... but will if he can protect his girlfriend by doing so. and wants him to know that).

Sort of. I don't hide it but don't really announce it either.

I kind of tried to do that with Digital Cowboy. Ex-Marine sniper, has no problem taking the law into his own hands type guy.

Unless the book was in a box or a bag. Then they'd just shred it to line their new den.

Cool. Best compliment I had, I think, was when someone told me a support character in a story "stepped right out of a Wil Eisner story." I hadn't even thought about it at the time, but going back and re-reading some of the classic The Spirit stories showed me this was true and just how much of...

In mine, my character has never requested his full stat sheet from the first time he saw it so he just gets skill and ability updates as they happen.

Hmm... There is an old roleplaying game called Lords of Creation in which characters gained powers by travelling to parallel worlds and eventually would create their own worlds (after about fifteen to twenty levels - the assumption was they would either retire the character and run games in the...

Was able to get the doctor's appointment I couldn't afford to get to (car issues), a telehealth one so I guess that's a win.

This gets further complicated by popular media. Gender bending (sometimes including cross-dressing, sometimes actual transformations) was a source of comedy for most of the 1900s, usually with people pretending to be of the other gender (Some Like It Hot, Mrs. Doubtfire, Tootsie, etc.), though...

Possibly - I just remember the book, a Starlog article explaining the differences between book and film (that came out shortly before the sequel hit general release, but after the author of the article had seen a preview version, so he could make a very brief point about how the novel would have...

I was surprised to find that the movie "Quigley Down Under" is considered not only a Western but one of the too Westerns to come out of Australia, and there was a period of Canadian and Mexican Western movies (one of the coolest "bad idea, horrible budget, and should not be anywhere near as good...

So far, I only have experience with PocketFM so may not be the best person to talk with about this.

Alan Dean Foster's novelization of Alien did not hold back much on the gore (and added some oddly psychosexual imagery that made it even more disturbing - and also added two scenes that invalidated the sequels, one of which had been in an early script the other was created from whole cloth -...

Depends - if you plan to monetize later with a service of some sort (KDP, Pocket FM, Webnovel) then absolutely. If you don't care about that, or plan to publish yourself, then its not really worth confusing fans.