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    Beware the artist scammers

    My Little Pony, to inundate them with love and friendship and make them change their ways? I guess this kind of redefines the term "Scam Artist"
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    ?? Describe Your Chapters Using Only 5 Emojis! ??

    I'd have to know what half the emojis mean to do this... and some of these would be long and messy...
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    Wrote a smut story called set in a hotel called the 5th season...

    The time to worry is when people contact you asking for reservations...
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    Was reading some blurbs from the trending list, and wtf?

    Just because you're crazy doesn't mean you're wrong...
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    Are Slow Starts Too Boring?sl

    It depends on how slow and what your goal is. If you're trying to establish a pattern of normalcy (to disrupt later) then a slow start is a good idea. If you're using it to build up an emotion (usually "dread") then a slow start is essential. But, if you just want to explain this cool new...
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    What's the difference between progression fantasy and just getting stronger?

    Isekai is a form of Portal Fantasy (and, the Max animation series "Suicide Squad: Isekai" would be more accurately called "Suicide Squad: Portal Fantasy" but Clayface is a pretentious twat), but not all Portal Fantasy is Isekai... Just as Progression Fantasy is a subcategory of Fantasy, where...
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    Would you read a shark girl sci-fi comedy with chaos, cleavage, and government agents?

    You know there was a horror-comedy "Shark Girl" that came out last year (and is available free on Tubi), and an anime series that translates as Shark Girl (I found both looking for a similar title, Shark Boy and Lava Girl, a children's movie from a few years back). Not sure if that would cause...
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    I have trouble with hooks and currently open to feedback swaps.

    Never saw that version (and sometimes mix it up with one my old Villains & Vigilantes character used... he turned in to a human-sized black dragon instead of a yellow demon though) - first time I encountered the character was in a reprint in one of the "Brave and the Bold" omnibuses in the 70s...
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    When is fanservice not considered NSFW in writing?

    If I had fans, there'd be a bit of fanservice in Blood Diamond when Equinox from Strange Awakening (about two years earlier for him) shows up. If I followed him and Jessica instead of Jack and Carol, then I'd be wandering into NSFW fanservice. Strange Awakening when both Jack and Jessica show...
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    How well does this cover work?

    Work for WHAT? I've seen movie posters that were similar - but had text in a lot of the "dark spaces" (including title, stars, and maybe a critical quote), so to advertise a movie: maybe. To sell a book or comic book? Probably not, at least without the title and/or author shown. To keep the...
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    I have trouble with hooks and currently open to feedback swaps.

    Etrigan The Demon was just a weird character - originally just a "thug" other heroes would consult when they faced supernatural stuff (his alter-ego, Jason Blood, was a former knight cursed to bear Etrigan's spirit for eternity). He kind of went away in the 80s but in the 90s, when he came...
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    Erotic novels

    Well, having married into a family where something like this happened twice (my wife has a sister from her father and her stepsister - and his grandfather had an affair with his wife's sister, before his wife died and he married said sister)... I still have no interest in reading it but can...
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    Help me choose a cat name

    We lost a dog recently (and got a puppy to replace that dog's sister, who we lost a year ago, two weeks later). And have had a bunch of cats. My wife names most of them. Our boy - at least part Maine Coon - is Ripper (well, that's the polite, SFW version of his name, at least). We've also had...
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    Beware the artist scammers

    Had one. Have no money and their style was wrong for the work they claimed to be inspired by so I just ignored them... :D
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    Question about fair use of places in a story.

    Strange Awakening makes use of some real places (Hotel Monteleone, the Hancock Center, some other Boston landmarks) but most action scenes are in purely fictional locations. I do make some mention of celebrities in passing, and some real companies as former clients of the firm Kelly works for...
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    I read a post

    Don't know the exact number but there is a minimum. Look for the "Guide for new users of Scribblehub" thread or maybe the Frequently Asked Questions one for a real answer.
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    Symbolism and motif questions for everyone.

    Symbolism can be a powerful tool, a crutch, or something that grinds the gears of a story to a screeching halt, depending on how it is handled, and whether it is symbolism I have no emotional attachment to, stuff that fits my personal ethos, or something that goes against it. I do not seek it...
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    What is your secret potion?

    It's so secret, I haven't even told myself.
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    Prologue to a story that may never happen...

    The city is ancient and the guy who made the tower a demented genius. The first part should come out in the text, the second part might or might not. Ah, thanks - thought I caught my only slip with that observer, but evidently not. Correct Not sure of the logic there but I'll consider it...
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    Contest

    For the first part, have not yet but have a contract signed but not yet executed with PocketFM - unless you count three RPG modules published, one around 1990 and the other two between 2001 and 2006. For the second, have not won a writing contest since my Freshman year of college (which was the...
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