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Sandra from accounting sounds half-baked. Poor girl. Have you SEEN the Muffin Man?

If you need a minimum word count, sometimes those adverbs are worth their weight in gold... Other times, they just drag it down.

I tried to emulate Hammet, actually, in the Jack Diamond stuff. Now, if you really want to see both the best and worst First Person has to offer, pick up some of the novels that came out in the romantic vampire glut of the 90s (of which Twilight was the most successful but not the first ... and...

Where do you find this? And is it per profile or per story?

Good question - if you go buy just the "a different world" thing, then yeah, I guess it would be (especially for those who turn out to be Force Sensitive but never knew it before they got dragged into the middle of things, like, oh, Luke). But Star Wars is really a mongrel story - a Heroes...

I did not think of that one because I never read it. My dad did and talked about it a bit (even owns a copy) but not me.

Ever hear of Dashiel Hammet? H. P. Lovecraft? They did not write young adult trash (though HPL did frequently call his own work amateurish rubbish). And then there are writers like Peter David who manage to mix first and third person sometimes (Howling Mad has some third person chapters...

Some of the earliest stories I know of that could be considered Isekai I am kicking myself for not recalling: The Herald Shea stories (started in 1940 with additional stories added sporadically until 2005 and a complete collection, in two volumes, came out in 2007 - The Mathematics of Magic...

Then you have characters like The Doctor... Early scripts (and two movies ... and the closing title credits for roughly half the show's run) gave the character's name as "Doctor Who" He was called "Theet" in one story, short for Theta Sigma, allegedly the character's middle name according to one...

I believe you can add individual tags to chapters - you'd have to manually do the different list each time you post, though. Or just have an "Introductory Chapter" that explains how some of the tags will apply later but not universally.

Heh. In two stories I wound up having to go back and rewrite entire chapters after realizing I'd shifted into First Person (Between Worlds - no longer here, sadly - had to pull it to put up on PocketFM) or out of it (there were three whole chapters of Strange Awakening where I slipped into...

Horror fiction people tend to consider it a "werewolf" (or "beast within") story - fun fact, that story was one of the primary inspirations for The Incredible Hulk in Marvel Comics, allegedly - Stan Lee said "Let's do a monster, like a werewolf but made by science, and he's the good guy but...

Sounds like a typical serial novel - except most have an overarching story linking the episodes together. For example, my series, Strange Awakening has one overall story (why was Kelly saved? And who is the real villain of the piece?) running through the episodes, but each episode is generally...

Practice and read. Really no "trick" to it. Some people can do this naturally, but for most of us, it takes practice, and a desire to emulate perceived masters. If you're going for absurdist stuff, the plays of Harold Pinter (a primary inspiration for the Monty Pythons) and Eugène Ionesco...

Now here I can agree - I've seen several that seem to forget the character had a life before their new one after about ten chapters. One cool variant thing - so far I've only seen one audionovel that did this, is a character who can sometimes move between the two worlds. It can be kind of...

You know the origin of Japanese manga art and animation, right? The artists were trying to capture the look of Walt Disney's cartoons. As Westerners had (to the artists) huge eyes, so did their creations. Isekai grew out of Portal Fantasy (though there are stories from Japanese lore - like the...

If you go by the technical definition of the world ANY story dealing with other worlds, from The Worm Ouroboros (where "you," the reader are transported in spirit alone to E. R. Eddings version of Venus, to watch his characters, called Demons though not supernatural creatures, do something...

If she riles up the Horseboys enough, her step-mother won't see trial, unless it's like the one Josef K. faced in Kafka's "The Trial." They seem to be a tempest in a teapot and that would make them boil over. Once outed, her real mother would probably find herself constantly protected by them...

If you are writing true FICTION, it must be. Otherwise you're either writing biography, history, political discussion, parables or philosophy, where the number one target seems to be 'bore the reader to death' where the goal is to inform, teach, or "sell a view" rather than tell a story.

Reverse the order and I kind of stole it 30 years ago, but for a Champions villain group - The Group of Evil Guys, Inc. (though didn't figure out a way to fit in the "parents killed in front of them" until I added Gun Bunny to the line-up of Tough Guy, Mentalist, Energy Projector, Fast Fellow...