Search results

Or they're James Patterson, who really does sleep but has enough people working for him doing "his" writing that it looks like he's awake 27 hours a day, 9 days a week.

The few British friends I have are all authors who have a "well, it's not easy and you may fail, but go for it anyway" sort. My American family is: "You probably won't make anything but go ahead, waste your time," for the most part, the ones who know I'm writing at least. My American friends...

Now I'm wishing I'd paid better attention when I was friends with two IP law specialists. There are times when fan fiction CAN be illegal (criminally) but usually it does fall under Civil jurisdiction. There are more shades of gray than black and white when using other peoples' IP...

Strictly speaking this is not true, at least from my limited understanding of the laws - fan fiction lies in a gray area of the law unless the original IP owner either sees it as a challenge to their property OR it starts making money without giving a cut back to the original IP holder. Now it...

Ah - well, all I have to go by is the old synopsis and the title so... From what you're saying, I agree here - a good title for, apparently, a different story. It would put me on the fence, but the smut tag would probably make me get back down and go somewhere else, to be honest.

LitRPG often includes actual game stats somehow (most of the instances I've read include a System as well, but I've heard those are actually less common).

Better than a fight just have his power manifest somehow - possibly he's unaware of it, something just HAPPENS (as an example, one character in one of my stories has a minor ability to manipulate probability - he can not use it consciously, but he makes a comment like: "Wouldn't it be funny if...

For a traditional novel, that makes sense - the reader has already invested in the book (by buying it or checking it out of a library) and has a reason to wait that long. For a webnovel/light novel, you have to sell the reader right off the bad, so need to start with something or risk losing...

It feels like you're torn between giving away half the story and saying nothing at all about it to make a pitch... and somehow manage to avoid doing either. The original synopsis at least felt like it belong to the title; the newer one, unless Fenrir is a direct reference to the Fenris Wolf...

She eyed us sadly: "I have a confession - I used cocaine instead of sugar in the fudge..."

Making it BACK on is, to my mind, better than just making it on once (or at least it's better than I've managed, as best as I know).

Ten? Awesome - think that beats my best by three (I fell off the list within six hours and, if I have ever been back on it, it was never for more than an hour and never above 100).

Note that there is a possible exception that the original author can post translations of their own work as long as they clear it with Tony first, if I understand correctly.

Ah - then I misunderstood the question given the title. It may require 24 hours after verification for it to count or something? Though it sounds like something went wonky and this does belong as a bug report.

IIRC, just like ratings you also have to add it to your reading list before you can comment.

Well, some of us do work for free (or credit)... but you often get exactly what you pay for then... :biggrin_s:

How about a fan-fiction blooper scene - I thought of this one after watching the "final" fight between Peter and Sylar in the future in the first season of Heroes: Peter shakes his right arm out and a ball of energy appears in his hand. Sylar assumes a defensive stance and energy engulfs his...

Just out of curiosity, what does this Muffin Bashing have to do with the latest chapter of "IBANIF"?

Looks a bit like the actress who plays Peggy Carter (probably spelling it wrong - Haley Atwell, I think is her name) in the Marvel Universe there (and a LOT like the animated version from "What If...?!?") - which captures the elegance of the character but makes her a little prettier than I would...

Unless one of her upgrades changes it, I would have expected her face to be more square and less friendly than this heart shaped one but otherwise, looks close to how I would have pictured her.