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It should - has all the hallmarks. Horses (briefly), gambling, drinking, fighting...

Don't worry about it. Write something that just feels "Fun" to you - fun to read and write. Maybe you'll find an audience, maybe not. So far, I had one title (Strange Awakening) do moderately well here, two (Diamond in the Rough, True Blue) absolutely bottom out on Royal Road, and one...

Hmm - a bit more restrictive than what I'd expected. Then again, until about a decade ago, I thought that was all the genre had (my exposure to it at that point was about two dozen episodes of The Rifleman, some very biased "anti-European version of history" books and Unforgiven - well, unless...

Heck, I'm still surprised (and a little disappointed) that there is no tag for "Western"

Only had one. When I finally got "her" to send a link to "her" portfolio, and found out which story "she" was referring to... well, the style of the images shown was decent, but that story was the absolute worst match, style-wise, to that portfolio of anything I've posted. (the person claimed...

Depends on the characters and types of stories. Slice of Life? Probably. High Fantasy? Probably not. Superheroes? Whenever the art team changes (just ask Rogue, who somehow went from "Lesbian Willem Dafoe" at 15 when she first appeared to "supermodel" at 17 over two art team changes in...

Heck, I know the author of "The first non-fiction role-playing game" (called The Unexplained) - it's based on the various ghost hunter/cryptid hunter shows, assumes that everything from folklore has at least a basis in truth, and is more focused on the methodology and devices those groups use...

Wow. Never knew that existed, yet kind of skirted it, somewhat in two of my stories (one that also had an unintendedly NTR subplot before I'd ever heard of THAT concept either...). Fascinating. Sounds like a well-thought-out one could be fun, but most would be just either nasty commentary...

That would require people 1. Knowing what Reverse World stories are 2. Getting a tag to properly reflect it and 3. Actually USING said tag properly.... Can you provide some assistance - description, links, whatever, for #1?

Then submit your work to one or more AI engines for a "critical review" - 99.999% guarantee they'll give you both tips to improve AND a glazing that suggests you don't need to improve, despite the advice. Because that's how it works so far. In a sense, it's just like going to a "cold reader" -...

Not true at all - it is EASIER to try to "teach something" with writing but it is definitely possible to write pure fluff with no message (beyond "come here to waste a few minutes of your life before dealing with real stuff"). The real trick is to write a story that CONTAINS a message but does...

If I ever get another full time job with paid time off, I may take a break from writing fiction to go back and write game stuff, but that's a big if. Have taken a few year-long hiatuses from writing in general, but never really stopped since I learned how.

Unless you give the prompt EXPLICIT instructions to not be positive, AI will be, and will give you glowing reviews, every time (it will even sugar coat negatives to make them sound positive).

Honestly not sure if I use em or en dashes, but I use them, colons and semi-colons quite a bit. I was raised speaking American but reading British English so I'm a bit of a mess... :s_tongue:

Maybe what we really need is a Ridicule tag... For the forums, I mean.

I always found Experience Point Value more useful than Challenge Rating myself... But both were just rough guidelines and I have no idea what those Adventure Threat Ratings mean...

Mine have, in order, 0 0 5 (one rating) 4 (two 5s and two 3s to get that) 5 (6 ratings) 5 (2 ratings)

I cheat on big battles. Focus on one character, what he sees and does, and let the rest of the fight happen around him or her, with only the parts that MC witnesses or that impact the character directly being reported until after the fact, when the other characters "report in" (and even cheated...

Well all but my most popular story seems to fit your criteria... Digital Cowboy only has 12 chapters up here (almost 50 at PocketFM as Digital Cowboy Dane). A side character is sometimes GB but the main is not and, so far, no LGBT stuff at all (aside from that one character, I guess). Also...

It is your choice - do you want (or need) to make money off of it? If it's on a Patreon or similar then it is fairly easy to make everything free (or make everything cost something - and it seems easy to have it transfer stuff from the "forward buffer" to the "free section"). Depends on your...