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Before you do, check the output requirements. Back when I was able to drive and not working, I had a lot of time to write and could probably have met them easily; now, unless they've removed some of the "gotcha" clauses, I probably would lose control of all but one of my stories within a few...

Well, it (the cover for Blood Diamond) was kind of inspired by some of the old noir novel covers that just showed two or three items (usually a gun or a knife, an article of clothing (usually a man's hat or a woman's shoe for some reason) and one other thing - a profile, another item, a window)...

I believe this refers to THIS thread: (3) I will tell you when and why I stopped reading your story. | Scribble Hub Forum Might have helped to include a link in the first poste but those of us who visited it could at least guess without one.

This (all of it) would get my vote as well.

Note that "Drawn" is valid but "Torn" is stronger. I would suggest more like: "...whether she should ignore or embrace the darkness of her troubled past" myself.

THAT you can blame on Lucas, not Disney - the Jedi were passive guardians, responding to trouble only after the fact until the final days of the Old Republic when they started taking bits of power themselves (allowing Sifu Dius to either become Palpatine or take Palpatine on as an Apprentice -...

I frequently include some gore, as I tend to gravitate either towards horror, dark fantasy or superheroes (kind of an odd mix, I know) but have never gone that far with it - just a few nasty scenes so far (that may change if I get to Jack Diamond book three - the Demon he's after there, in...

Equestea? Sounds like a beverage made from dried horses... :biggrin_s:

A lot of them were guides to the publishing industry at the time they were written, or are used as style manuals for some publishers even today (had a few recommend Strunck & White over the years), but are not that great as overall guides as the industries evolve over time. And some were "Well...

Considering I have finished two so far (and one no longer exists anywhere except in vague memories of myself and the four people who read it), a mix of both. Sometimes I get caught up in reading old chapters and find flaws or inconsistencies as I do so, that need resolution. Sometimes I have...

So, a guy who is supposed to go on an epic quest, instead elects to be stuck in a permanent "slice of life" time loop? If I wrote something like that, I'd probably have the quest turn out to be something important to the world, something he NEEDS to do, and the world essentially ends (or perhaps...

A frequent use of Patreon is for people to post "raw" future chapters - generally as many as five - before posting the edited versions on free or subscription sites. I have not heard of anyone posting side stories there - more often, you'll see side stories posted on the free sites (essentially...

Not necessarily accurate - Divination can involve precognition (knowledge of future events) or postcognition/retrocognition (knowledge of the past, often also referred to as "object reading") as well as clairsentience (the ability to use one or more senses remotely - also called "remote sensing"...

If you want (and aren't on mobile, rendering this moot), feel free to check out any of the stories in my signature. Or don't. It's a casual thread... :D

Ah remember one name I used a few times (mostly in computer games that had long enough character name windows): Melenkurion. That one got used a lot in the 80s and 90s. Another one that still pops up occasionally is D'Anellian, who is sometimes a god, sometimes a lunatic, once a bard and...

Wow - never heard of it before, but apparently it was known in the early 20th century, as H. P. Lovecraft, at least referenced both Thule and Karmanes from it, and I believe R. E. Howard referenced it as well (for that matter, one of his first Conan stories was kind of an Isekai, as an historian...

Corpse Mask: A spell with variable power levels. At the lowest level, it allows the caster to take on the features of a dead person by wearing a part of them (does not have to be the face - could be a finger, hair anything). Only the body part worn and those adjacent are disguised and anyone...

Writing Prompts I think.

Hmm... then that would mean stories involving "Fairyland" and people being kidnapped, tricked or voluntarily taken there also count - so the core concept of Isekai is about 400 years old at least! Kind of sad that it is now pretty much a single thing (Oh Noes! I wuz hitz by truck and now am...

There are also exceptions for parodies, derivative works (i.e. Fan Fiction) and "fair use" things - but that opens a morass that could end The Neverending Story...