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If one of your readers continuously brings up a problem they have with your story (and it's not an objective criticism like typos or plotholes) how many times do you try to justify it to them before you just say that maybe they should find something else to read? I've got one reader on RR who...

The project I'm working on in the background is going to be a cultivation fantasy. This will be the first of those I've written (that isn't a straight up litrpg) and I'm trying to make a system for it that's unique but similar enough to other cultivation stories that anyone familiar with the...

I've been interested in text-based video games for a while. At first I wanted to make a visual novel, but I don't have the skill or money to pay for an artist. I've fooled around a little with Twine a few years ago, but I'm not a fan of "games" that just make you choose from a selection of...

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I mentioned a while ago that I wanted to write a story with a nonhuman/monster main character. I was thinking about that lately, and it occurred to me that while I still want to do that, I don't want people to think it's a furry fic. Where do you think the line is drawn between having a monster...

Ever since I launched XNPC in February, I had the chapters scheduled to release at 5:00pm (American central time). My reasoning was that if I uploaded before that, people would still be at work. My subscribers would get the notification, but there would be fewer people to see it during the brief...

I've been working the night shift since January. It's fine, I adjusted to it easier than I expected. It's also great because 90% of my job is to sit at my computer and not fall asleep. This is probably the closest I'm ever going to get to being paid a living wage to write. But there's one...

I really want to buy and/or download this song so I can listen to the entire thing. Occasionally I'll hear it in the background of some random YouTuber's video, but there's a never a name or a link attached to it. So in my desperation, I have come to you. Who can identify this song for me?

I was bored and googling random stuff today (don't pretend you don't do it) and I happened upon a definition for "pulp fiction." They're stories that were designed to be written quickly for a rapid release schedule, were usually formulaic and derivative, and focused on giving readers an...

EDIT: stingray, not manta ray. Imagine you're reading a book (stretching your suspension of disbelief to its limits, I know) about a guy who gets isekaid to a pirate/nautical-themed story, and in the process he gets turned into some kind of fish man. Which of these two fish would you prefer...

What book(s) do you think has the worst moral or message you've ever heard? For me, I'm gonna have to go with this one: It's a book about a kid who gets sent to a school that teaches monster children how to blend into human society. It sounds derivative but inoffensive on the surface, but then...

I got Roboquest on sale a couple days ago, and I've been playing it ever since. It's a FPS roguelike that feels like Doom 2016 with Borderlands graphics. I think it might be the best roguelike I've ever played. Some of my other favorites include... Slay the Spire Balatro Hades Enter the...

What games do you think have the best stories? Here's my top three... 3. Tales of Xillia. The story is so good that if it was (faithfully) made into an anime, it would be right up there with Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood for me. 2. Alan Wake. I'm replaying it right now. The only game I can...

Is there a reason why our profile statuses can't be more than 420 characters long? They don't appear on the front page except for the sidebar, which automatically hides them if they're bigger than a certain size anyway, so it's not like we'd be competing with them for space or anything. It just...

If you've been sharing stories on the internet for more than a day, you've definitely gotten at least one comment from a reader that makes you think "Who chews this guy's food for him?". Like this one I got on XNPC, where someone was so desperate for an excuse to glaze communism that they...

One of the stories I want to try writing sometime soon is an isekai. I'm hesitant to even try, though, because every time I ask how to write an isekai, people tell me they'll drop the book if the isekaization doesn't happen in the first chapter. Maybe the second if it's really well written. And...

One of the dungeons my characters go through in XNPC is going to have a puzzle room, and I'd like it to be the kind of puzzle that my readers can solve alongside them if they want to. This is what I've come up with. Would anyone mind trying to solve it? I want to make sure that my logic doesn't...

I've had this idea bouncing around in my head for a couple years now, and for some reason I haven't been able to get it to shut up for the past few weeks. I'm not going to do anything with it (yet) since I've got so much else going on, but I want to talk about it a little. Maybe that'll help me...