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The dragon stiffens for a moment, then begins sobbing again. Between its sobs it manages to get out: "That is just it. My parents were killed by adventurers before they could give me a name, and a dragon is nothing without a name."

About one out of 20? Seems about right.

Frequently. Chapters 17 through 21 on Strange Awakening. The death of "Uncle Mike" in Between Worlds Those were the most recent. But I've had some very dark stories that were never shared or were lost in a hard drive crash (including one I kept having to step away from for a few days as it got...

Right - and it varies by personal preference (when I first started here, about a year and a quarter back, I was told 20 was the minimum; since then I've been told 50 or 100 - and I have one story, on PocketFM unfortunately, that hit the 100 mark with my last update and will hit 101 if I finish...

You don't have "Other" or "1-1000 (as less than one is just a synopsis and more than 1k is just overwhelming)"

I prefer the Jessica Fletcher model - Jessica goes somewhere or has a friend come to her. She then kills someone, finds a patsy, discovers mostly circumstantial evidence to put the patsy away, and moves on.

Tedious to read through and feels like you tossed two or three good ideas into an AI blender and didn't bother to edit the output for readability. Also, using a lot of "foreign" (even if they are close to or actually are common usage ones) words in a text can turn some people off - doing it in...

I had the scribbhub default image for the first three weeks on my first two stories. Didn't update until later the same day that my second one hit trending (for its one and only, six or twelve hour run there)

At this point it feels more like nitwitting than nitpicking.

So wait... are all of the aliens also lollis in "Project A-Ko"? Or is it just B-ko?

Listening to the stuff on PocketFM, I thought "I can do at least that well." And yeah, I am just about on that same level, for good or ill.

I read about a pair of experiments a guy on Substack did - he teaches a writing class and sometimes uses AI in his lessons (often to showcase both what TO and what NOT to do). For the first leg of this experiment, he had AI produce a movie poster based on a list of criteria for a non-existent...

It varies - can start as early as 5 in very rare cases. In most cases it hits at either 20, 50 or 100, depending on far too many variables to count.

Even though it is technically against the rules, there are a few. And some of them are audacious enough to seek help in the Reviews area. Those are the ones that usually get caught

Define "traction" - my first story never really got much. Neither did my third, fifth or sixth. Second one hit a bit of traction week three, about the time chapter 11 I think posted, and kept going well until I hit a logical break point and have not been really able to get back to it. My...

I demand my editor and proofreader return every penny I gave me, with interest.

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There is absolutely nothing interesting about me whatsoever. Just ask my wife.

Hmm - you might be on to something with that.

If a game frightens me, its more often because I can't get the controls to work (e.g. Alone in the Dark II) so keep getting killed off in horrific and frustrating ways. Some of the early FPS games had strong horror elements though - Doom, Half Life, etc. I suspect the actual scariest was...