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I'll agree with what others are saying. Don't force yourself to do it. I feel like sex scenes actually drive a lot of people away simply for existing in a story they'd otherwise be fine with, no matter how demarcated they are. Plus, if you're writing them out of obligation, the people who are...

One major component is deciding how much "health" your characters have. Don't mistake that for a literal HP system. Rather, in the back-and-forth, to-and-fro attacks between the combatants, how many attacks should it take to decide the battle? Some people write very prolonged fights where it's...

Martial Arts are to Liberal Arts degrees in the same way that the Sweet Science is to STEM degrees. :blob_cookie:

I feel like it's a crutch half the time, particularly with "reincarnated as This Specific Character" types. If you're writing a story about Goku from DBZ doing whatever random shenanigans you want, people might wonder why he's acting nothing like Goku ever would. But if you're writing a story...

I can't write any scene while listening to music that "matches" the scene. Even if the most exciting, heart-pumping action is going on, it takes a lot more careful consideration to write than it would for the characters to act. It can take over an hour between writing an editing. I prefer...

Not really. I'll use an en dash (shorter length) for interruptions, and that's about it. Almost all use cases for em dashes can be done with other formatting: parentheses, semicolons, often just a basic comma. It's a far more stylistic tool than a grammatical one. Plus, AI tainted it a bit...

Just look at Project Moon's games. Limbus Company has assigned major scenes that basically rub in how weak and vulnerable the main cast is. It's not like this happens in the prologue then you become a chosen one badass; even years later, the main story keeps showcasing how you're still not even...

I think you mean "Trypophobia". Typophobia would be, ironically, the fear of typos.

I have to agree with the others. Even if you had to pick only one, it depends too much on the story itself. Most of the time you'd want both. With a protagonist that has a dynamic arc, you'd typically expect the world to influence them until they become important and powerful enough to start...

Not my paranormal experience, but I was involved with it. We had a two story house and my dad swears that one year, on three separate occasions, me and my two sisters separately walked downstairs into the living room and stared blankly at nothing as we murmured and mumbled incoherently. It was a...

"Show, don't tell" applies a lot more to other media than writing, simply because they can show. You can have an entire action scene play out in a movie without a single line of narration or dialogue telling you anything. If you tried putting an action scene in a written work without writing any...

If I did use AI, it would be the opposite of helping me. I'm very particular about how I want things done, and I've never seen any AI writing that matches it. I'd probably pull a knife on ChatGPT as soon as I see an em dash taking the place of a comma.

I can't tell if it counts as storytelling or language, but the one that kills my interest the quickest is just the narration and the dialogue itself. Like seeing a dozen paragraphs in a row describe how the beautiful sexy protag is beautiful and sexy, in case you didn't get it the first time...

I just write out what the big scenes are going to be, and in what order. It's a lot easier to write when you have a destination in mind. All the smaller details just come naturally from letting the characters' personalities clash, both with each other and with their own vices holding them back.

Red Dragon (Silence of the Lambs prequel) has a major character be a blind scientist(?) who doesn't have any real advantages because of it. Same for Dea in The Man Who Laughs. Both of which have movie adaptations too, but the books are worth reading on their own.

I don't use POVs much in the first place. Third person narration all the way. Sometimes in intermissions there will be focus on a different part of the world, but the main chapters have everything centered around the MC's actions. It might drift towards partial omniscience sometimes, such as...

An hour at most for a first draft on a keyboard. If I'm writing drafts on my phone, it can triple the time. As for editing and revising it to be up to my standards, that can easily take over two hours. I go over it carefully to a fault, changing single words at a time, even adjusting their...

I'm not a fan of yanderes. I don't mind them being in stories, I'm just going to cheer for whoever's fighting against them. If I had any thoughts beyond that, it would be "What do they want out of their target and why aren't they getting it by now?" A lot of yanderes in anime get really...

I almost always have it outlined for which major characters will die, when they will, and roughly how it will happen. It doesn't really feel like I'm condemning them. More like I'm writing the MC's biography and that time period just happens to be where a tragic end took place for their loved...

If you like something and feel it has some kind of deeper meaning, that's art. If you like it and feel there's no deeper meaning, it's entertainment. If you don't like it and feel it's trying to have a deeper meaning, it's pretentious. At least that's how people online tend to act...