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So it's a new novel, but is it a novel novel, or a plain old run of the mill novel?

Why female characters? In @ThatAdamGuy's Henry Rider novels, SHE sees herself that way (both not smart AND too lazy to think) yet really is not. Not sure if that would count?

One story I have not posted anywhere has an MC who knows he isn't really the MC, but even that is something he's willing to lie about (he takes the idea of an "unreliable narrator" to new heights, keeping secrets even from the writer...) - the real MC, at least in a cosmic sense, is his love...

I'm afraid to test mine. Strange Awakening might slip through with a low percentage but the others? Even though the only AI I use (other than half my covers) is basic spell and grammar checking, my personal style is closer to AI than I like to believe...

Why is the commerce system important to the story? Nine times out of ten, it can just be handwaved (especially in LitRPG/GameLit). Just have a general idea in place and don't worry about the details unless it is a major plot point for some reason (exception - it can be vital in historical...

I'm kind of in the reverse of this - I wound up getting "stuck" into a serialized format from having tried to write full novels. This has led to me having to stall some more popular stuff to work on some new stuff (one if which is now being released almost live).

The Dark Powers of Ravenloft system... each act of Evil (including murder, betrayal, etc.) gains you more power but increases the odds of you being trapped in your own special prison realm... Never knew there was a Quentin; the guys who made the TCG must have seen the anime movie and thought it...

Yeah I'd have two on Hiatus at the moment just because I have not had time to focus on them. Plan to continue but too tied up with other stuff to get back yet...

I started to do twice a week on all stories but then caught up to my backlog last November and have only been posting one to three chapters a week (total, between four active stories) since then. Had my biggest increase of readers right about when I had to cut back and have not recovered either...

Well, from a "sufficiently advanced" society it may not need that. In the TV series TimeTraxx, there were two SELMA units - one was in a clothing article (I keep thinking a wristwatch, but haven't seen the show since ... the mid to late 90s) held by a fugitive, and the other by the main...

In fact, for the first minute or so after a Quickening, they seemed weaker... Apparently the first movie was a mix of two ideas: The Elevator Pitch was "A vampire movie but the vampires only feed on each other and do so by decapitation." The other idea was the alleged Legend of the Clan...

There Should Have Been Only One [TM]

It was a reference to the human tendency to ... selfishness and self-gratification. At least that was how I read it - so "in general, humans will use mind control to become rich, famous, and harem-endowed" (but there may be exceptions that are more ... humane than human, I guess)

"Now listen to me, dear reader: What you just read was not a harem story, and no mind control was used at all. Oh, and dump your shares of Apple."

Individually, humans can be pretty amazing. Taken as a whole group, though, we are pretty much trash...

Been listening to the PocketFM translation of "My Vampire System" and it is fairly common for a character to be referred to by the wrong pronoun (USUALLY female characters called by male pronouns but, in the first 600 chapters, there are at least three instances of the reverse as well). Also...

Kill systems are a throwback to the early days of RPGs, where the only way to gain experience was to kill and loot. If in a fantasy setting where life is cheap, or the character is a monster (My Vampire System, My Werewolf System, etc.) it makes sense, but otherwise it's just a bit too brutal...

Is this thing still going on?

Lewis Carrol came close with some of his full titles: The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony in Eight Fits Alice's Adventures Through the Looking Glass and What She Found There. And Mary Shelley's best known work would fit in with some of the more pretentious modern titles: Frankenstein - or The...

Oh, forgot the granddaddy (or maybe just great uncle) of all psi-power stories; know there was mind control in it but don't recall it getting closer to a harem than a "love triangle" with the villain one corner of the equation - the Skylark series by E. E. "Doc" Smith.