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    Webnovel Feedback Roasts For the Fearless

    Uhh... you HAVE followed this thread right? Even the one 90% positive roast got some criticism... and only about 1/3 get affirmation...
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    Games you loved playing?

    Thexder. Which makes it interesting that I've never written a story with transformers or actual mechs, despite them being in a lot of the games and cartoons I grew up with.
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    Algorithm Question

    That seemed to work for me... :D Except I haven't hit the "goes higher" part... :D
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    Unveil the Secrets of Starlit Path of the Mystic Forge – My Cosmic Tale Awaits!

    You might want to edit your text as this is ScribbleHub not Tapas...
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    Writing How Important is Description in your Writing?

    About half as important as I feel it should be, but I keep forgetting to do the descriptions in favor of stuff that's more fun to write (and harder to make mistakes on). I try to detail anything where it is important that the reader and I see the exact same thing, but leave most stuff to the...
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    Algorithm Question

    SEVERAL speculative ones, none with concrete answers. I know I had a story reach, I think 14 (the one time I saw it there myself it was down around 20 - and off by the next day, never to return) on it, and could not find a reason why it made it then, fell off so fast, and never got back.
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    Sleep Disorders and Writing

    Sleep disorders and artists seem to go hand in hand, unfortunately. Salvadore Dali, for example, found sleep "a waste of time" and avoided it. I have apnea and occasional "hypersomnolance"
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    Scariest movie monsters?

    Situations more than monsters stick with me. I had trouble falling asleep for a few days after seeing "The Omega Man" - the monsters were kind of lame, really - purple make-up and dead-looking eyes and not much else. But the story itself - the silent world, and then Norville finding a group of...
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    Reader Preferences About Villains

    The main villain should be evil for evil's sake - yet have at least one redeeming trait. Those under him or her should be believable, realistic, people corrupted by the lead villain's nature and resources
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    Thoughts about time skips

    Consider this - The Three Musketeers had the following sequels: Twenty years later Ten Years After (and 2-5 others, depending on how you define the specific books)
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    Thoughts about time skips

    Unless one of the following happens: 1) You hate your readers so much that you have to show them EVERYTHING, even bathroom breaks, embarrassing moments, etc., plus endless scenes of walking, sitting and standing, 2) your story takes place in "real time" so every sentence is a race against the...
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    Feedback for my first novel: The heir of truth

    I would suggest adding something like your comment quoted above to either an Author's Note before the character first appears, or as a "warning" in the synopsis/blurb then so people can go in without their modern preconceptions (or back out before hitting that "wall," as their tastes dictate).
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    The Random Idea Thread

    Digging into the dice box and rolling whatever I grab (potentially including counters, a blood-bowl football or two, and mechanical pencils)
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    How much coincidence is too much coincidence?

    I would expect a good writer to make the presence of the tropes less obvious, and a bad writer to leave them glaring at you...
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    Feedback for my first novel: The heir of truth

    I've seen some texts that, prior to WWII, used this as a name, but were edited after to be Arjan. The term migrated to Europe through the Slavic countries and the meaning changed significantly, at least twice (once it meant "invader" or "foreigner"!) over the centuries.
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    Judge a book by the cover

    So instead of a radioactive spider, Peter got bitten by a crate of steroids and MJ is part medusa? The first one looks like a kind of Blue Lagoon romance. The second and third look like they're from dark fantasy or horror stories (and she looks like the villain in #3). #4 looks more like a...
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    Pop

    Twain's original is "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court." Never heard of any sequels by him or anyone else but not surprised they exist. It's been parodied and used as inspiration everywhere from Buggs Bunny to Black Knight. Even, IIRC, Stargate SG-1 or some similar show in the late...
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    Robots commenting first chapters?

    99% sure most or all of them send you a crude, ai-generated rough draft as "proof of concept" and then ask for payment (probably close to but a little less than the standard rate) to send the finished picture - and you never hear from them again.
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    What motivates you to write?

    Well, one novella, three RPG modules and a very amateurish novel that, unless an ex-girlfriend still has the print copy, no longer exists in any accessible media (3.5 inch floppy disk for the last major version of DOS before Windows 3.1 took over everything, in a program called First Writer)...
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    Do you guys feel intimated by the sheer amount of work you must put in your novel?

    Occasionally, but the story is in the driver's seat and I just chronicle the ride.
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