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    Promote your story here!

    OK my stories are now all corporals. They've been promoted.
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    Uh, do I use an exposition or keep the readers absolutely baffled with my concept?

    Anyone who works retail has probably seen this... :s_tongue:
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    Tell us About Your Story Lore

    I just use that term as kind of a play on the former TV DC Universe (Arrowverse) - it refers to (so far) the Jack Diamond stories and Strange Awakening (where Sparrow is introduced). It is also the universe I created for most of my Champions RPG sessions back in the 80s and early 90s before I...
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    When people prefer to confide in AI, is this a sign of a social empathy crisis?

    Talking to an AI is akin to going to a fortune teller, though probably (for now) a good deal cheaper (and a lot cheaper than a therapist). People prefer them because they are usually more likely to be positive - to give optimistic projections and not pass judgement during the session...
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    How do you develop manuscript skills as an author?

    1. Read a lot. 2. Write. 3. Ask questions and do research - there are some guides that are good for certain markets (Strunk and White's Elements of Style is very useful in some areas, but, even with near annual updates, obsolete for others; Sadly, Penguin Books killed off The Writer's Market as...
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    One sentence ghost stories.

    Everything seemed to be going well, but then Rod Serling showed up in the living room.
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    Tell us About Your Story Lore

    This is similar to the "Sparrowverse" - except the invaders were from another dimension, and their leader found humans boring, so made his right hand thing do what he could to make them more interesting; after a few crossbreeding experiments, he hit on the idea of teaching humans magic. For a...
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    Writing From Plantser To Architect

    Write a skeleton - the skull and backbone first, then add other structures and once you're settled on that, start adding the flesh, muscles and other organs... Writing is necromancy!
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    [NEWS] State of the Internet

    Ah, then they both did it. But the focus of, IIRC, "Brave New World" was forced equality (unless the friend who summarized it for me had the two books mixed up)
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    When did you decide to quit your story, or why do you keep going?

    When another story demands to be told or when a story just ENDS, I move on, at least for a while.
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    What Type of Heroine do You Prefer: Moral Heroines or Love Interest Heroines?

    Active heroines. Ones who grab the story (and maybe the hero) by the nads and don't just sit back as passive observers, as damsels in distress. But NOT infallible ones - those just get boring.
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    Standalone or series?

    Supposedly, yeah. Though my most successful story on here picked up at 10 chapters and fell off around 25 (also the first book ended in the 40s, and I've only gotten five chapters of the second written).
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    Too spicy for RR?

    If you want to bug agents directly, pick up the latest publication of "The Writer's Market" - it usually (or at least did the two times I used it) lists agents, periodical publishers and regular publishers along with what they accept. I contacted an agent who preferred full manuscripts over...
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    Google Drive deleting text/documents?

    That is part of it though - more likely, they are afraid laws WILL be passed (or that they will be banned from places that have such laws) if they aren't proactive.
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    [NEWS] State of the Internet

    That was Huxley, not Vonnegut or Orwell.
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    [Help] Ice cream vocab

    Soft-Serv(TM) or just Soft Serve if you want to leave the trademark out.
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    Wow - most pay restrooms I've seen lasted about a year before idiots tore the stall doors off or...

    Wow - most pay restrooms I've seen lasted about a year before idiots tore the stall doors off or found ways to break the locking devices (and, half the time, it seemed the cleaning staff didn't have keys so had to pay to clean too ... and thus didn't).
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    New writer here! Would love some story feedback!

    "Do you believe in life BEFORE Death?" ...
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    Where do You Source Your Protagonist's Design?

    Going by these: Jack Diamond is a hybrid/distorted archetype (Noir Detective/Superhero/Occult Investigator) Kelly/Sparrow ... not sure what she is. Was the result of a challenge, initially (don't remember the actual challenge itself, but the whole "waking up as a female version of himself"...
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    Standalone or series?

    Supposedly the first "sweet spot" to attract interest is at 20 chapters, and then 50. Apparently a lot of readers won't take it seriously until you hit that second point.
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