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Once listened to the first few chapters of "The Girl from ParaWorld" which includes a System the MC uses to "grow" the way you're suggesting (her first few levels remove acne and acne scarring). The writing wasn't all that good but, if it exists anywhere as a web novel, it might be what you're...

William Hope Hodgeson's Sargasso Sea Stories (Which, I confess, I have only read a few examples from), Boats of the "Glen Carrig" and Ghost Pirates (both of the latter I have read) would all be good to reference for this - he goes a bit into the sailing (of ships from the late 19th Century, when...

Campbell pulled it off in two of his stories by giving "you" memory issues, with memories coming back as the story progressed.

Other than short horror fiction (Ramsey Cambell had some excellent examples of this), the only time I've seen second person viewpoint work is in "Choose Your Own Adventure" books or websites. Not saying it can't be done, but it seems very hard to maintain in longer fiction, unless the reader can...

With the Jack Diamond stories, I try to kind of keep up with what Raymond Chandler wrote - about 1-2k per chapter, usually about 1.5k, as a style thing. With everything else, I write what feels correct, and often go back and chop stuff in half or merge chapters if they feel "off" before (or...

So, you're saying a 62-sided die is possible and I do not have one yet? Clearly the universe is out of balance!

That is pretty much a modern simplification that downplays the historical importance of the male bloodline, at least in European culture. Originally it was explicitly a child who was not formally recognized by his father, regardless of the circumstances of his birth (at least in the Germanic...

The genealogical one is I THINK the origin of the term - it was a big deal in heraldry when a child was allowed to use the family crest because everyone knew who their dad was, even though that father refused to recognize them, either because they were the product of an affair, they were...

According to my stepson, who seems to know a lot about cars, it varies wildly based on model years - but in GENERAL Toyota is the better of the two cars.

More seriously: You have the genealogical bastard - the person not recognized by (or who does not know) who their male parent is. You have the hand-and-a-half sword, the bastard sword. You have a ruthless jerk - the 'right bastard' And you have something that has been cheapened somehow...

Bastard Sword. Royal Bastard. Regular Bastard. Right Bastard.

Unless you plan an ongoing webnovel so that you can log hundreds or thousands of chapters, this is always a good idea. It's usually a good idea with the webnovels too, but always a good idea for any other type of writing.

Twenty, thirty years ago I could have done this with minimal references (had a card with some of the more obscure ACII symbols that I made heavy use of, mostly on websites). Now I'd have to cheat to get anywhere with it!

Just a first impression thing - the chapters are not numbered. Fortunately, they seem to be posted sequentially, oldest at the "end" newest at the top but sometimes chapter numbers help, especially if postings wind up out of sequence (been running into that on a story I was following - for a...

They work to get a review or feedback on a few chapters, provided you give the same. Whether they give useful information or not, whether they are snarky, straightforward, or just flummoxed, varies with reviewer. Note that in a review swap you are MORE LIKELY to get mostly or entirely...

You'll find everything here - toxic, nice, constant editor (me), people who only read if there are 20+ chapters, people who prefer 10-20 so they can catch up, people who will read first 1-3 chapters then disappear until you hit fifty. Everything.

So would this feature the Tuatha de Danaan (sp.?) as well, or just their land?

Good lord - that's all nine levels of Hell in two seasons...

Not certified, but trained by "Heckler's Online" back when America Online was a "thing"