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    PSA: Stop Asking if People Would be Interested in a Story

    It is also possible if they're testing the waters not about what TO write, but about where to post it when/if they do (or if they actually have) written it...
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    WANNA READ OR MEHH?

    Definitely not my cup of tea, but given the success of TV shows like The Sopranos and Breaking Bad, there definitely is a POTENTIAL market for this, assuming it is at least partially human-written (as in "more than just prompts tossed to The Butler to 'do something with'").
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    Why a Story Needs a Primary Antagonist (and how to find them)

    Maybe a better title for this video would be "How a story can benefit from a Primary Antagonist" given the discussions?
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    Why a Story Needs a Primary Antagonist (and how to find them)

    His uncle is the antagonist there - the guy who started the ball rolling by killing his dad, and winds up killing his own champion, himself, and Hamlet as a result. His ambition (and perhaps even more so, his wife's) are, effectively, the antagonist, making them both simultaneously antagonist...
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    Oops...

    Maybe she's just moving too fast and that's how it looks at the moment? Or maybe not...
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    Is it NTR?

    Just so long as it isn't NPR...
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    Its not LitRPG, how to call it.

    I hope it's "LitRPG" because it sounds conceptually similar to the Simulation used in my own story, Digital Cowboy. The characters do have stats there (and the "Travelers" - Player Characters - can improve those, but nobody has "levels").
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    How do you pick or choose the names of your characters and cities in your book

    As an aside, running table top RPGs since 1981 helps a lot... for a while, back in the 90s, I was often asked to come up with names of places and characters for a Star Wars game, as I tended to come up with names closer to what Lucas used than most (which was considerably less flattering when I...
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    Um... what?

    Since it can't be objectively verified (by any existing methods), it's more of a pseudo-scientific theory...
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    How do you get book covers for your book

    Either I use an AI prompt to create a starting point and edit it in PaintShop Pro, or I use royalty free images scoured from the internet, composited in PSP.
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    Made it to Trending! Super Chuffed!

    Was told I hit 12, but the highest I saw was 26 myself (about an hour after I was told I had hit 12). And it moved down from there once over the next few hours, then fell off and, to my knowledge, never returned.
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    How do you pick or choose the names of your characters and cities in your book

    It varies. Sometimes the character name kind of shapes the story, sometimes it comes with the story idea, sometimes I agonize over the name for a day or two before settling on something. For characters... David West I had right off the bat. Some of the other characters kind of named...
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    How to keep plotting when depressed?

    That was where I started really. It was kind of what got me out of it.
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    Made it to Trending! Super Chuffed!

    Nice. I did that once, for a few hours. Don't think I ever made it back again though (stopped checking after two weeks). Good work and hope you can stay there longer than I did!
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    What is your favorite POV when reading Novel?

    Well, I think both Kelly and Jack are smart characters but could be mistaken (though Jack is sometimes literally and figuratively clueless) - but Kelly also IS a bit self-centered... Jack... is more self-effacing, kind of making fun of the whole thing.
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    Novel end up with suicide. To post or not to post.

    It really depends on the story - sometimes the HEROIC thing to do is for the character to end him or herself (I've seen translations of Japanese stories where this worked, and stories where the character clearly went insane and it was the "best" option). And then you have Victor Frankenstein's...
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    Sell me on your MC, not your story

    So do two of mine, for that matter, though Kelly designed her Sparrow costume to "overcome this limitation," as she, as a high-powered marketing type, knows how well sex sells (and used to be go a bit overboard on it, until she died and a male Kelly took over her body, since he died at the same...
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    READ ROTE-E (COMPLETED)

    The Kaiju System | Honeyfeed It was originally something tossed out here as a joke in the Writing Prompt area and then a contest came up where it fit in fairly well so I ran with it... Ah minimum age but no maximum (was actually expecting a range) - I would have been safe... :D
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    What is your favorite POV when reading Novel?

    From the concept of yours, a hybrid model might work - with the MCs POV most of the time, maybe a third person view to transition in and out, and the girl carrying the die for some chapters?
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    READ ROTE-E (COMPLETED)

    Didn't know they had age restrictions on their contests - just knew that only one of the three I read the details of was something I had the time and interest to write, so did (and didn't even get an honorable mention).
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