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The heroes have to discover that the villain was either ready for them, or really didn't care about them because they were not a significant threat. Over the course of the battle, either the heroes lose, retreat, and plan for the next arc, or find a way, other than (but probably also using)...

Hail Eris! All Hail Discordia! (and kick out those JAMs!)

In the beginning was The Maelstrom, the Storm of All That Could Be But Never Was. Within this, the Principles of Creation and Destruction waged an eternal conflict, a stalemate ended only when Creation stole an element of Destruction and used it to create the ultimate combined act of Creation...

Usually villain origin stories are either very short (like a single issue of a comic book), or are "reimaginings" that generally make an established villain a bit more human and less villainous (Wicked for one example of this, and the sequel; there was also one about the Sheriff of Nottingham...

Not a fan of that kind of choppy style for description (for dialogue, yes, action probably, not description). A small creature suddenly appeared, twirling in the air. It was clearly some kind of spirit, and one able to define gravity. It wore a dirty shoulder less dress that had once been...

Just watched the first episode of a K-Drama called Ca$hero where it kind of does this - the MC narrates each episode and provides running commentary (even when he's not in a scene) but the whole story seems to be third person. It's jarring enough in a purely visual medium and would take a VERY...

For me they are pretty much the same. Different things can be a bigger challenge at some points - like keeping track of what was planned vs. what was actually written, coming up with titles, naming characters - sometimes these are difficult, and sometimes they take care of themselves. But...

You're raising a nanite!

Yes.

All the revenge stories I've run into (quite a lot, sadly) were audionovels my wife listened to, and all started with a regression - the MC is killed due to the betrayal and comes back in time, before things "went wrong" to try and screw over the bad guys before the bad guys kill (almost always)...

Not without a bit of a grammar scrub. Some clunky lines suggest the whole book will be just as tough to wade through in places and does not suggest it will be worth the effort as-is.

Having both the time and energy together to actually do it.

It really depends on the type of story. In a comedy, you can just do it. There was a "round robin" novel in the 90s called "The Red Tape Wars" where a few chapters were first person, most were third, and at least one addressed the reader ("Oh look, you've gone and let Jack [Chalker, one of the...

You can do a system without LitRPG elements, and you can do LitRPG without a system. Unless the situation is a game, you should have an explanation for where the System came from, or what is imposing the LitRPG rules on the setting - even if you never share this reason with your readers.

If it gets and keeps readers, everything is fair. If it doesn't, it may still be fair, or maybe not... only time will tell. Literally "Isekai" means "other world" - so any story where a character goes to another world, from The Chronicles of Narnia, to Well of Souls, to Gor, to the John...

Start by assigning either a trait or a quirk to each character. Character X always starts any statement out with "Well..." Character Y is imperious and always uses the biggest words she can. Character Z is shy, never talks loudly (no ALL CAPS or Exclamation Points!) and uses as few words as...

Their first big hit was, I believe, "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" - they got "big" being the warm-up band for a guy named Tommy Sheridan, but then got sent to Germany without him (and without Pete Best who messed up his passport application and was replaced by Richard Starkey, who was "gently...

They were credited with a lot of musical innovations that they were the first band to get wide success with, but were usually the second or third band to attempt. Use of Indian instruments (the Kinks beat them by a whole album, and at least two other, less-successful bands also tried the same...

My writing speed? When I was out of work: Very Good. When I was in the hospital? Great. When I was working one Job: Good. Working two jobs: Bad.

Except for the "more than friends" bit (and needing to add in that one member dies and another gets screwed out of his position in the group, to be replaced by a virtual stranger), that sounds like a condensed history of The Beatles...