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    Writing Naming is not hard, but you are soft.

    Azathoth is, essentially, the last remnant of the Big Bang given some tiny degree of sentience. It is a living nuclear explosion attended to by amorphous creatures that make a constant, flute-like sound. Definitely one of the scariest of his monsters.
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    What's your motivation for becoming an author?

    There are stories that want to be told. Some choose me as their vessel. Who am I to say "no"? (Also, it may be in my blood - dad's dad hated to write, but was a storyteller in every other sense of the word. He was orphaned at an early age, and once told a tale of the fire that claimed his...
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    Are You Plotter or Panther?

    If you write thmut, are you a depanther?
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    How do you define a good story?

    First keep in mind that "good," "popular" and "successful" do not correlate. Look at some of the "trendy" stories of the last decade or so (Twilight, 50 Shades of Gray, etc.). And not all good or great literature is accessible to the masses (some is just a little to obscure in style or tone...
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    Writing Naming is not hard, but you are soft.

    Shub Niggurath, the Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young, was actually the creation of a very young Robert Bloch (whom HPL murdered in proxy as "Robert Blake" in The Haunter of the Dark - part of a strange series that their circle of correspondents played around with - each one named a...
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    Could someone help me cure writer's block?

    Anthony (Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob) actually wrote short essays in a lot of his books (anywhere from one to ten pages long) about his process, the hardware and, later, software he relied on, and what books he was working on. Suspect he wrote THOSE when he was experiencing a bit of block -...
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    Writing Naming is not hard, but you are soft.

    Praise mindless Azathoth that the Crawling Chaos Nyarlathotep has done its job and hope to avoid Shub Niggurath and her thousand young or the ever-watchful Yog-Sothoth, the Key and Guardian to the Gate...
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    Could someone help me cure writer's block?

    Not sure if this is still true, but Asimov was once listed as the only author with at least one work in each of the major classes of the Dewey Decimal System. Piers Anthony started out with (adult!) science fiction (I had a girlfriend who was really into his earlier stuff - Bio of a Space...
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    Writing Naming is not hard, but you are soft.

    Ah, yes, the Cthulhu school of naming conventions...
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    We don't have enough stories about scientific achievement

    Ah yes, the first major science precautionary tale DID have a moment of euphoria when the scientist's project worked... but then that turned to horror when he saw the Creature that he, Victor Frankenstein, once a promising medical student who washed out over a growing obsession with defeating...
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    Could someone help me cure writer's block?

    The writers who never experience writer's block are the ones with several stories going at once - Isaac Asimov, Piers Anthony, a few others (heck, myself back when I was unemployed). Just go with the second story for a bit and ignore the "guilt" at "abandoning" the first. Or start a third.
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    We don't have enough stories about scientific achievement

    Unless it's something like Oppenheimer, the joy of discovery part is usually at the beginning - and the rest of the story deals with consequences, fall-out, and side effects. For example, E. E. "Doc" Smith's Skylark series starts with "The Skylark of Space" which refers to a ship that not only...
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    What should I do?

    When I got back into writing, I was unemployed and had nothing but time. Two to three chapters a day (split between four or five stories) was, if not easy, at least plausible. Now I'm working two real (part time, though one may be transitioning to full time) jobs, writing two stories for Pocket...
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    How do you rate your own action scenes?

    Literally anywhere from one to ten... Depending on the specific scene, story, and my mood when rating it.
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    Human-formed pets?

    If its the cat who's taken to sleeping on top of me at night, I'm going to have to do a lot of explaining to my wife - unless her "stalker kitty" has also turned human, then we're both going to have to deal with some uncofortable decisions. The other cat already acts like an entitled teen so...
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    Ideas for Covers

    Either could work - or backfire miserably. I'd experiment with both - use one for a week or two, then switch to the other and see what happens.
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    Authors, please read this... *^^*

    Cyrano Savinien Hercule De Bergerac...
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    Need FeedBack Urgent! LitRPG Publishing First Volume

    Are your chapters really long? Seems a bit short for publication, at sixteen chapters.
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    I have released 8 chapters day by day and have 8 left for the first volume

    Tell them to come back and complain when you're at 100 chapters and only getting out 1-3 a week (true story... just can't keep up with apparent demand!)
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    How do I write LitRPG/leveling systems and still be consistent with the MC's leveling??

    Three options: 1. Plan out everything in detail. 2. Use an existing game as your foundation (both so that the numbers actually mean something TO YOU and that you have a baseline to follow; one of mine started with an RPG called Aces and Eights as a foundation... and then pretty much threw away...
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