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The problem, by the way, is not finding readers, but finding readers who will pick an option here. Most will either just try to read everything as it gets released, regardless (and complain that it makes no sense) or just read without responding to anything, so if you leave it to them to choose...

Depends on the story. In Strange Awakening, Kelly is telling his/her story pretty much as it happens as an effort to make sense of it in his own head. Jack is trying to figure out how he got where he is and is relating those events where he can. Indigo feels a need to tell his stories on the...

Only a few excerpts, really. Mostly in an Eastern Religions class in the 80s. Maybe I had the formula backwards and it's mostly Buddhism flavored by Taoism.

From what I've listened to of it, it is rooted in Taoist (with a side order of some flavors of Buddhism) philosophy, where the practitioner develops elements of themself to perfect the mind and body - sometimes together, sometimes independently. In many ways it feels like a forerunner of LitRPG...

If I weren't an historically awful beta reader (as in "finish reading the day before it goes live and send feedback the day after" awful) I'd volunteer. But then again I've only written one story in the genre so am not an expert by a long shot.

It would probably be better in the forums here than as a novel - and might do best at some place forum based like SpaceBattles (or, apparently, there is a dedicated Choose Your Own Adventures site others have been listing already)

Wish I could remember the full story but there were two guys who had an idea for a television show (one of the classic comedies; blanking on which one) who shopped it to three studios with nobody even letting them past security. At the fourth, the security guy was new and let them in. The...

Haven't had to. Most of the really dark stuff was already researched for me by the authors of various RPG products (mostly horror games and the Dark Champions line).

Cool - need to go back over it a fifth time then (had to make some major changes for PocketFM from my first two drafts, and then wound up editing it further when I uploaded here; probably introduced the errors there!) [as an aside, last I checked, it had two ratings on PocketFM - one five with...

Interesting ones. Just something that makes them stand out in some way. No one specific thing, just something ... special.

Yep - goes back to the Giants of Light, a literal interstellar police force designed to keep monsters in check (and who usually avoid detection when they interfere on planets that aren't aware of their existence ... unless they accidentally mortally wound someone or face a threat greater than...

Alchemy of Souls (the Dragon Studios live one on Netflix at least) had two of them, and pulled it off fairly well. It is a trope that gets real old real fast though

Not sure, as I've done passages like that with background characters, but not with NPCs (a hallmark of the Digital Cowboy thing is that the "NPCs" have lives of their own and continue to function when players aren't present - they often have a very narrow focus, but they do still function.). It...

Well, the Sentai Rangers have a LOOONG history that goes back ... well, before the first true Sentail Rangers stories, back to the days of Ultra X (kind of an X-Files for kids, only about 30-some years earlier), which "cross-pollinated" with Godzilla to produce Ultraman, the first of the...

Several of my characters are far more religious than I am and talk about it.

When you near the appropriate ending (note that a story may evolve away from the initially planned ending) When you tire of writing it. When your audience shows fatigue.

Hmm, The two stories I have posted to each site have roughly the same number of readers (4 and 11)...

The character being nameless and the villain faceless may work against you but does make it sound, at least, ambitious.

Write or read, obviously

The big issue, as I understand it, is if you feed your text to the AI, it "keeps it" to learn from and recycle later.