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For an unpublished story (still on chapter 3 - won't put something up until I have at least five) I had to look up a lot about Ancient Egyptian clothing and lifestyle bits. For another unpublished one, the MC is sometimes an expert on cars (tough to explain) so I keep having to do some research...

For me it's called "Real Life Getting in the Way of Writing"

This likely varies from author to author. I have some trouble with straight-up mysteries and standard romance stories, for example, and honestly am not sure whether I handle action well or not, but won a (very minor) award for a horror story once, and a humor piece got at least one class at my...

That's some udderly ridiculous bovine intervention right there.... And is there any cow tipping in this tip-top cow?

So far, in my fiction, the only plot twist I've had a reader suggest had already been planned about a month earlier... Now, in Role Playing Games, twice now I've had players suggest things that made more sense than what I had planned and their guesses became canon...

Wait - you are calling probably the best movie Will Farrel was ever in a "piece of crap"? Fair.

I had one story hit 13 on Trending, or so I was informed. When I checked it was in the 20s. That was less than an hour later. As far as I know (stopped checking after two weeks), nothing I've written has cracked the top 200 since.

Or LESS AI generated stuff, using it as a tool rather than as a crutch, maybe?

The only one I've got has a virtual world split into regions. The MC is essentially isekai'ed into the Wild West region but there are science fiction and fantasy regions as well. Player Character Avatars are called "Travelers" and all follow some generic rules and some setting-specific ones.

The synopsis feels as if it was written by an AI.

Back in the 90s, one of the heads at Image Comics, I don't remember which one it was, coined the term "Wartists" to describe Writers who are also Artists.

For me, that is the definition of a "style choice" though - the writer's style and vision for the magic system define how they present it.

I vaguely recall a story or game somewhere that gave characters an "energy pool" that could be used to power moves, special abilities, or to replace lost health. Essentially everything was a subset of, I think that one called it Chi. I think the only rule in MHA is the "rule of cool" - if it...

It is a style choice, nothing more nothing less. Can be the same, can be separate, can be different tracks for different types.

...and then you have the lead in Dead Like Me, sometimes called "Toilet Seat Girl" because she was killed by a toilet seat from, IIRC, Skylab after it broke up.

There was a short story - I think by Dennis Etchison - where the narrator, a writer, was being stalked by someone. When the stalker finally caught up to the MC, he said the MC had been "stealing his idea particles" and went on to say that every story he'd ever written, the MC had published at...

I never had a name for it until a clerk said: "What do you want to drink with that?" and I said: "A little of everything but the diet stuff." He looked at me like I grew a second head, but the woman beside him at the next register said: "Ah, a sewer water!" and he looked at her like she had...

As someone who tends to make "sewer water" at self-service beverage bars (i.e. "a little bit of everything") ... never had any kind of cider in the mix, but pretty much had the rest together. As long as you don't mix diet and regular stuff, it's usually not TOO bad... Usually.

Phillip K. Dick kind of suggested this idea in some of his stories in the 60s, so even The Matrix was not original!

MC Pushed The Red Button (TM).