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Making "character sheets" is a very good thing if doing a LitRPG; otherwise, your best bet is an index card or note file IME.

Yep - possibly the best illustration of this come from the two Quantum Leap television series, where usually the only time you see how Ben or Sam appear to the rest of the world is when they look in the mirror.

Or Abby Sciuto on NCIS (her foldaway bed was for guests, and she slept in a coffin).

While I can understand this in general, in cases where a character winds up in a different body this may be the best way to introduce them (I used it myself in Strange Awakening - but then, it is a first-person story; in a third-person story it would be very different, and probably a little creepy).

I can't speak for YOUR characters but mine... well, pretty sure the crew of Between Worlds would have that meeting on the page, and demand some concessions but then keep things as they are. Kelly (Strange Awakening) would spend a few paragraphs berating me for some of it but then just go out and...

The disaster itself is an Antagonist. There can also be a villain, but it is not required (unless you're writing a conventional superhero story, then it pretty much IS, since about 1980)

And the Clive Barker version: "Yes there are monsters, but we are worse" has also been done to (maybe un?)death too, IMO.

After decades of gaming, I think I've explored every villain type I can think of, so I write the ones I have the most fun with...

Not when the reply is: "You thought you made a joke, but actually you are the joke - and here's why"...

I would change that to Write. Good or bad, just write. Find the gold. Polish that, fix what you can of the rest and drop what you can't. Review again. Repeat.

This sounds kind of like how the manga turned webnovel turned audionovel "My Vampire System" went - all the "monster" and "demi-human" types were either bioengineered humans, humans modified by powerful Systems, or offshoots of the Vampires. Some were very close to the (stereo)typical...

90% of the writing advice out there is for you to write like the person giving the advice - so about half of it is actually USEFUL to most writers. Keep that in mind, and just be yourself as a writer, looking for advice only when you get stuck.

I found some of MY generation's slang pretty annoying at times... "Gag me with a spoon," "Kewl!", "Cowabunga, Dude!" etc.

Note that some slang is cyclical - things like "I dig it" have been in and out of fashion since Shakespeare's time. Sometimes the meanings change, sometimes they don't. But some other ones are timeless - "Cool" for example - I mean, Cool is a Rule, but sometimes Bad is bad...

I Just need more hours in the day...

Ah, forgot it was him. OK, the SECOND best movie he was ever in... :D With Elf being the only other one worth sitting through at least once

Unless he needs a shirt and tie (as in his first case), Jack Diamond pretty much dresses like that under his trench coat if the weather permits...

It very much depends on a lot of things. So far, I had almost complete control with Jack Diamond's first book, but they have gone a little off script on the second. Strange Awakening stuck pretty close to the plan, except for a side-jaunt to New Orleans which was not planned initially. Oh...

Chapter 41 is up, 42 might be posted by the end of the day and 43 will probably go up Friday - and then Kelly will go on hiatus until I have at least five chapters written for "book two" (which will just be posted as part of book 1, instead of separate books like the Jack Diamond stuff)...

The character would avoid or destroy clocks or anything else that reminded him of the passage of time, probably. Calendars, day planners, maybe even newspapers, as every page has "today's" date (which may be yesterday or tomorrow for the chronophobic, especially if they are disconnected somehow...