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Laziness. It's easier to tick things off in units of ten because we have five fingers per hand, 2 hands each in most cases. If six fingers were a dominant, rather than rare recessive, genetic trait, we probably WOULD operate under base 12 most of the time...

The Conrad Stargaard novels by Leo Frantkowski did a good job with this - by introducing some subtle elements of industrialization slowly (also playboy clubs and a bunch of other stuff). One neat point was, he tried to bring a decimal coin system to medieval Poland and was met with resistance...

The format is good and makes it easier to go back and reference specific points. Reading it, I think I prefer to write (and read) somewhere in between the two examples for each bullet point...

Not exactly sure what you are looking for with this, but the closest I've come was an idea for a project that was scrapped before I could even propose it. An old group called the "Role Playing Gamers Association (RPGA)" had a convention-only Gothic Horror campaign called The Living Death. They...

Maybe the villain in the movie Fallen? Or maybe, one of my favorites, the man known in life is Firoun Al'Faisel (or something close to that), but who, until an experiment turned his domain from Darkon to Necropolis, was known better by a corruption of his title, A'Za-lan (Warrior/Mage/King) -...

Decline in views is normal, and not a reason to be discouraged. Heck, on one site, one of my stories has views that are all over the place for something less than a month old - chapter 1 had 33, two had 17, then 10, 16(!), 9, 12, 13, 11, 10, 7 and 7 in that order. People usually read the first...

Well, it seems about 60% is (paywalled) advice on writing (about 1/3 of THAT on writing Fiction, the rest just general writing), about 20% day-to-day commentary, and 20% fiction. Maybe there is some other non-fiction there, but not on anything I've followed or found in 45 days there...

Could also do the same thing through manipulation of sound - sound can enhance, even "force" some emotions in people (at least per a study allegedly funded by Alfred Hitchcock back around 1960)

Wait until mid-story. Give the reader time to grow attached, to believe the character has plot armor, and then give them the axe.

Right now, I have three here, two (one also here) on Royal Road and one on Honeyfeed.

Have you seen the streaming series "School Spirits"? That had an interesting take Could pull something like that with her having been primed to be a killing machine, perhaps by the MC or a rival exorcist, and her "revenge" murders were her being manipulated, perhaps with memories of the real...

The original premise is great for a short to mid-length horror story. Yours is better for a more epic feel, like Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Both could work, depending on the nature of the experiment (and the reason(s) why the store was allowed to run out of beans/leave the lab unlocked -...

OR - like the one I had from a Seoul publisher and the one claiming to be KDP - the "hiring editors" thing might be the scam.

Not wading through four pages for this - does this list mention Substack? I found out about them when I was considering giving Wattpad a shot (read that they were looking to get more than just romance stuff) and then heard there was a meltdown with the guy who was in charge of it, and its...

That is definitely possible - like I said, it was almost 50 years ago. I do remember looking for stuff by him and a few others (many I no longer remember the names of, like the guy who wrote "House with a Clock in its Walls"; and others like E(dith) Nesbitt; C. S. Lewis; Robert Heinlein; and...

I'd say Big Brother in 1984 is probably the epitome of this.

In one of the first attempts that I ever made to write a novel (back around '81 or so), the villain had a sword called "Heartseeker" - this sword had the ability to strike at the body and soul of the target. Each time it connected with a target, it began sapping their will, even if it failed to...

Looks like you've only been on the site for about 30 hours or so - probably not enough time for the link to your story to be active due to the approval process.

Brilliant stuff - only read about half of it but loved what I read. The only one on your list that I have not only never read, I've never heard of it before!

I read a book when I was young (like 8 or so) that was published in the early 60s; I thought the title was "Water World" but can't find any record of it anywhere; anyway, it had a world sounds like Shael except the gates were technological and lost after some kind of accident, stranding humans...