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Honestly, I'd give her at least a 15% myself, but I guess the quiz is just playing nice.

The phrasing feels weird, but I get the spirit of it. It's brought up as a lingering doubt in the FMC's head that if she opened up to a certain character even a week sooner than she did, it would have led to The worrying part is that she had been considering sharing her personal secrets...

It's a farm, not a ranch, so presumably she can just grow crops. If you want her to be evil, have her grow corn specifically to make industrual grade high fructose corn syrup out of. Truly, even poisons cause less widespread harm than the devilish HFCS...

Same as above. You should still write it if you feel it resonates with you that much, but it's not excessively dark or, as you put it, "sadistically cruel".

Who knows? Not a single friend I ever made was someone I set out to "make friends" with. They're just a weird thing that happens on its own sometimes. If I saw anyone trying to come up to me out of the blue saying "hi, can we be friends", in any setting? I'd just recount to them the sheer amount...

The real problem is that em dashes are solely a stylistic choice. There's no place they can be used that they couldn't be substituted by parentheses, semicolon, or even commas, depending on the context. They don't actually do anything specific to them besides taking up more horizontal room to...

Hard to get the obligatory MC harem if they murdered everyone, unless they're a necromancer MC.

I haven't met anybody since my last ER visit, so I can't say I'm a social butterfly. But at the same time, even some of the acclaimed best romances/friendships/etc I've seen, I can't say a lot of them seemed natural to me. Very clearly forced to get these characters interacting in a certain way...

What is this, 2019? Get with the times and do like with rule 1. Have an AI generate the title for you.

Giving you their firstborn child? In this economy? Kids cost too much for me to be raising other people's.

Congrats!

Yoshikage Kira from Jojo's is a solid pick for me. He is not justifiable at all. Nobody says "maybe hes actually the good guy when u thnk abt it...." unless they're cracking wise. But the story also goes into a surprising amount of depth into his very thought processes and how much he's willing...

Honestly, it sounds like the problem is too many humans. Just write them out and have it be a setting with only monster girls/boys, then you don't have to worry about any monster-human ratios.

My current MC in VoraCity is finally starting to come to terms with her individual power being far greater than anyone she's met si far, but at the same time, she's just one person in an era where populations were ballooning by the tens of millions every year. At this time, there's nothing she...

I was taught to never start a paragraph with a non-dialogue sentence and then add dialogue midway through. As in: M.C. punched the wall. "Damn it!" You would always have to start a new line for the next piece of dialogue then. But if you start a paragraph with dialogue, then some action...

I've also seen it work when it comes to close friends who are basically making related stories in the same setting, but it doesn't quite work with strangers unless you're very lucky or very flexible with each other. In my own collaborative works, it tended to be analogous to someone writing the...

Xaelas are a disease unto this world. I don't want to be cured.

The two main qualities are consistency and sensibility. Consistency just means that the character you're seeing play out in the story matches the way the story focuses on them. For example, if your character is a scumbag who is always picking fights, don't try to suddenly drop sympathy cards all...

90% of AI Detectors are in themselves AI. 10% of AI Detectors just generate random numbers on the fly. They're the more accurate ones.

The best feedback I ever received was that a dumb joke I slipped into the narration snapped the reader out of the trance he was in while reading. I didn't even intend it to be that captivating, but after hearing how I fumbled it, I suddenly felt like I did something wrong and shouldn't let it...