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My handwriting made writing anything but rough notes impossible; learning to type was a godsend and made it possible for me to write more than just notes.

Everything except Sports or pure Science Fiction. And I mean everything, as I tend to blend them together. For example: The stories here: Diamond in the Rough is a detective noir ... and supernatural horror ... and a superhero origin story. Blood Diamond leans more to Urban Fantasy but builds...

I stopped using it and created two different tags (not the exact wording but what they mean is): Probably won't read but bookmarking just in case I decide to due to feedback or genre or some such Probably will read eventually but not in any hurry to.

That's about the only time I don't thonk. I should probably have something looked at.

Very carefully. Unless I feel like pushing it over for kicks. You can't plan everything - either the characters will rebel or will feel stilted and robotic unless you're REALLY, REALLY good at planning minutia. For example, I have a character in one story who was meant to be mostly a passing...

I've lost stuff to hard drive crashes. Closest I've come to nuking a chapter, though, was when working with a group-edited file and getting three versions mixed up, merging two and losing the one with the most changes in the process.

Dad bringing home a roll of newsprint with a damaged ... I think the term is platen. It wouldn't fit properly on the printing press and would have been thrown out so he was allowed to take it home for his kid. Took most of a year (during which he got another one of the next four to arrive...

It is older than that. The Name of God is supposed to have the power to destroy, in kaballist Judaism. For that reason, the deity is known just as "god" or a string of letters derived in the Roman alphabet as JHVH and generally pronounced "jehova" but never actually spoken as such. Odds are...

People do - I have even. They don't go over as well as longer fiction unless you lump them together in a single work with some kind of unifying theme.

For flavor, this is the logic behind the demons coming up with titles "I am Mugwumpus (not his real name) The Demon of Frustration (a title he made up a - and strives to live up to). Here to Almost Grant your Heart's Desire. Name it now or lose your wish forever."

Try to be genuinely surprised when you do get readers, rather than arrogantly frustrated that they have not yet recognized your magnificence or depressed because you just aren't connecting. Maybe you won't or maybe it will - LATER. Instant success happens so rarely it seems miraculous (and...

My biggest challenge - and one I never succeed at in long fiction (can if I keep it short) is sticking to a single genre. Other genres always creep in... Romance? Has to have some action/adventure stuff tossed in, and comedy. Fantasy? Usually moves towards Dark Fantasy and then crosses into...

Well, you seemed to be doing an emotional horror scene. In my experience, the goal for such a scene is to make the reader feel the same emotions the character should be. One tactic for that is a reversal - turn the audience's expectations around just as you show that the character did not have...

Other. A version adapted from the old Chill Roleplaying Game's rulebook: Harry shuddered again. There it was, the noise, the scratching at the door he knew he locked. He clutched the object in his hand tighter, pulled the sheets of the bed closer around him, and waited. Scratch. Scratch...

Why the die and reborn angle? Just "An entity granted him a System for Crime but a side effect has him shifting between two worlds, at critical moments, and having to build up his criminal empire in both."

Of my own stories? Depending on which one. In one story, I'd be a cyborg who may very well be immortal - and bored. I killed the first MC through treachery and now his kid is gunning for me. I can't wait - I have to come up with more plots, more ways to amuse myself, and maybe, just maybe a...

Not to be outdone, the most popular girl in school rushes her Awakening Ceremony - and awakens the Ermine 2000 - a small, furry mech (the general belief is the designer had ... issues) with four legs, tremendous speed, and no offensive weaponry at all. You have an aneurysm laughing at her. In...

WHen I started posting, I had at least ten chapters written for each story I put up. And I posted a new chapter whenever I was back up to +10 for a while. Then I started working again and facing other issues and fell behind a bit, and now ... well, Pocket FM has been getting everything for the...

The advantages of mecha are the humanoid form (gives increased range of motion - at least in theory - and is easier to "train" a pilot to "drive") and flexibility of design (much easier to swap out a Mech's secondary weapons than a tank's for example). The disadvantages are ... covered in other...

Both easier AND harder. Harder to keep track of what you've done ,but easier because writer's block only happens if you try to force yourself to focus on one story over the other(s).