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    Making a story about a guy creating his own isekai

    So the anti-Thomas Covenant?
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    Is It Normal to Have Literally Zero Views on Day 1?

    Usually you get about four - the approver, yourself, yourself again, and someone else. If you're lucky, you get a few more within the first 24 hours.
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    Is Using Ai tools for things such as grammar valid or not

    Used as a tool, AI is great. Used as a crutch it is poison.
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    Just noticed there's no "Western" or "Wild West" tag

    Unforgiven. Red Dead Redemption. The second Alone in the Dark game. Deadlands. The Three Amigos. The Rifleman. The Virginian. Rawhide. Anything Louis L'Amour wrote. A handful of, believe it or not, Harlequin Romances.
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    Need help again... How to write fights?

    I tend to write fights in one of three ways: Type One: Single character versus either one or a small number of foes. I go into detail with moves and thoughts for that one character (sometimes they fight alone, sometimes not), and everyone else is just acting/reacting or triggering events for...
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    I need help in genre

    Even though I'm only legally an adult (and have been for 2.5 decades, and almost never act mature, I usually have to use those two tags myself... :biggrin_s:
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    If your protagonist lived in the real world, who would she/he be in your life?

    Dane Coleman - guy I maybe met somewhere who got executed for vigilante justice. Dave, Malcolm and Carol - people I met through gaming, David and Mal might even be co-workers. Would probably not know Audrey or Liz, unles Liz worked with my wife. If Thellissandra lived in the real world ...
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    Dark fantasy or isekai power fantasy (LiRPG): which do you prefer?

    Dark Fantasy does not always mean gray area protagonists. It can mean horror stories with traditional fantasy elements (the novels and gaming setting for AD&D 2e and 3e - Ravenloft - was of this type, though the gray area stuff ruled the rust in the spin-off "Ravenloft: Masque of the Red...
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    Question for readers...

    I generally don't read anything with over ten chapters unless it's marked Completed just because I may run out of time or lose the link to it (online; with print stuff this is rarely an issue)
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    Splitting Chapters?

    For print, any length is valid (Peter David had a chapter of a book that was literally just the chapter number and "It seemed the polite thing to do." in Howling Mad), but 3000-7000 is considered standard. For webnovels. 1000-5000 is "valid" with 1500 to 2500 the "sweet spot" to aim for. At...
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    Frequently Asked Questions

    If it's only happening in that chapter, on it; if it happens in other chapters too, both. At least that seems to be the standard.
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    I drew my friend (a guy) as a girl

    Misrepresenting-Everything?
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    I drew my friend (a guy) as a girl

    The drawing made me think of that. The seventies were a WEIRD time, and rock stars even weirder it seems...
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    I drew my friend (a guy) as a girl

    Reminds me of a story Alice Cooper told on his old radio program - one year, The Who was touring in Detroit but there were no hotels with rooms available willing to rent rooms to them given their reputation for property damage, so he offered his place for them for the three days they were in...
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    Feedback on blurb?

    The following line is not needed but can stay - doesn't seem to help or harm the synopsis.
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    What metaphor describes your novels as important in your life?

    A pretty flower, that smells bad.
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    Help me try to make sense of this idea of mine.

    So you want an Architectural System?
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    What metaphor describes your novels as important in your life?

    Experiments in alternate history
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    Had you ever experienced a storm that made you fear for your life?

    Kind of tangential but once I was out riding around with some friends and we saw a tornado funnel cloud. For some reason, the kid driving thought it would be a good idea to follow it, and we DID for about two minutes, before he suddenly stopped the car and said: "What the hell are we doing...
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    Should I give CW's for dubious consent?

    Sounds like "Adult Content" warning is appropriate.
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