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I originally created my world because I didn't want to use someone else's for D&D/AD&D. Then realized that players would not read that much background material before playing and just kept some summaries to toss out for background information and set the rest aside, trotting it out four times...

FIRST Novel? Two readers loved it (one of whom I was dating so I took with a grain of salt - and she gave it to the other to read without telling her who wrote it because she felt THAT friend would be unbiased). An agent had "no confidence" in it so only two printouts were ever made and I no...

Two young men were walking down the road, one of them flipping a coin. "Heads." "Heads." "Heads" The other, Alex, sighed, then noticed something in the road before them: "Hey, Denver?" "Heads. That's 142 times in a row. What?" "Look, there in the road, what is that?" Denver squinted his eyes...

Wish I could argue with your choices but ... nah, you're pretty much spot on here. Though maybe the character who started out as Bella fanfic (the "heroine" ... or maybe just heroin? ... from 50 Shades of Grey) has her beat on this?

Some of the Arthurian tales include what would be considered "tournament arcs" - in some, the romance between Gwynnefyr and Launcelot begins because she tried to get the other knights to murder this French upstart - and not only does he defeat every single one, he almost kills one, and prays to...

Until the 90s and the advent of competent desktop publishing software the two spaces at the end of a sentence was "the law" (the reason was threefold: first, just like the QWERTY keyboard layout, to slow down typists; second because most typesetting machines preferred it as kind of a throwback...

That was Dickens, Victor Hugo, at least one of the Dumas's...

Robert Jordan had pages and pages describing the scenes his characters traveled through - he was a recent author who did well with an inane amount of description... seriously - while reading the first book of the Wheel of Time series, I was jealous of his ability to describe everything but his...

Not familiar with two of these so don't know if I WOULD consume them or not and not interested in any kind of Harem except the character with that name in Grrl Power – A webcomic about superheroines. Well, unless (and I'm pretty sure it does NOT but the "sexy sister" might have had harem-like...

The format looks more like poetry - or maybe a script (actually, a lot like a few rough draft "scripts" for comic book fight scenes but without the "asides" to the artist "Can X do this? Could we show Y worried about that other thing here? Need something interesting going on in the background...

Now, if you just misspelled it and are really out to make Ironic characters, I'm sure we can provide a lot of suggestions...

Sounds vaguely familiar, like something I read back in the 70s or so. Pretty sure it was not any of these, but about the same time I read The House with a Clock in its Walls and a bunch of stuff by Edith Nesbitt.

I haven't had much time for reading. I occasionally listen to audiobooks and there are a few webnovels I follow, but with two part-time jobs, a new puppy, and writing, not much time for reading. Still need to finish The Big Sleep and the rules for Zwiehander that I started reading last year...

They're tricky BECAUSE they can bring the story to a screeching halt, as you say. I don't think I've developed any ideas where a tournament would make sense, or I'd have tried it (closest I have are the one-on-one battles for some of the Warriors in Between Worlds - though I could kind of see...

With the "stock" fantasy stuff... Anything you try to do "unique" either someone has already done, OR there's a reason why nobody has done it. You want a world without orcs? Don't use orcs - either create your own races and make them unique and distinctive or just have savage humans (who...

I use dashes of all sorts. Far less often than I used to, but I still do - on occasion.

You can't design them - they feel forced if you do, and rarely catch on. You design a character who BECOMES iconic due to fan interactions and/or hitting the right tropes to gain critical attention.

Clarke's law - "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." And Gehm's corollary to Clarke's law: "Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced."

I frequently try for that but get distracted by the fun stuff myself.

So what kind of rates are we looking at here?