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I thought that when I first signed up but they added some clauses that make me think my own stuff could be considered too racy, despite rarely devolving to porn. There is a way to "hide" NSFW content behind a paywall but you have to be very careful with it (and that will allegedly drive some...

The hardest things about writing are, in order: 1. Actually Starting writing - many never get past this point. 2. Title. If the story does not suggest one immediately, you're going to flounder looking for a good one (or at least I do). You can come back to this later and revise (I have one...

Too many to list. 1. Guy reborn in the body he might have had if he had been born female in a world where superpowers exist. Sees most things in terms of marketing (especially since sex sells) and just "doing the right thing," with the focus slowly shifting from the marketing side to the...

All your webfiction are belong to us!

For Great Justice?

Sounds too much like running for office these days. Pass.

As for pet peeves, my biggest one is when a story suddenly becomes preachy on some hot-button political issue with no hint that it is about to do this. Even if it is an issue I agree with, this just grates on the nerves, and is even worse when it is one I disagree with. If it is open about it...

Six? Ouch. Was in for five days back in August and that was bad enough (especially since we still don't really know what happened to put me there). I do most of my writing on my phone, and then edit it on my PC so it worked out well enough (once my wife got my phone to me on the second day...

Not sure if the board software did not have that option, or they were worried that people would accidentally delete their own accounts so you had to make a request to a board moderator - or a DIFFERENT board moderator if you were one yourself.

Yeah, they were afraid that, being one of the sites managers, he would accidentally delete other accounts (or his own again, but in a way that it could not be recovered), so this is a feature that needs to be carefully considered.

I know a site that used to allow this - until one of the company admins accidentally deleted his own account. From that moment on, you had to run account deletion past an admin or moderator.

Never intentionally read one. Read a book that had one briefly before they became an "internet thing" but they are not my cup of tea. Have a romance novel in progress that almost becomes a reverse harem, but then does not...

The first time I encountered "the Gamer's Mind" it was refreshing (it was a horror novel, I think a Stephen King one, where the MC tells someone about the unbelievable crap he encountered and they are just kind of blase about it; "Yeah, kind of suspected that was going to happen") - and liked it...

Biologically? None that I know of. Married into a family with three kids and have a bunch of animals though so...

I have more scrapped ideas than I could count, dating back 40+ years. Some creep up as side plots in ongoing stuff, some languish forever, some mutated into completely different things. And some are just sitting there, waiting for me to finish working with other stories and come back to them...

I would suggest take it down, wait a week and try again.

All I can say is writers inspire each other and often - consciously or not - adapt elements of what they read. I suspect you see a lot more ... Dosteyovski in American writers than you do in Russian ones NOW - and more Russian writers writing like a mix of American and Asian authors, because...

There is a web site that has the meanings of names, including some Anglicized Asian ones. I thought I had it bookmarked but can't seem to find it right now.

Every single thing I've ever read. Which ranges from "Frog and Toad Together" to "(Alfred Hitchcock and) The Three Investigators" to "The Star Beast" to "Time Enough For Love" to "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" to The Uncanny X-Men (1980-1992, approx.) to the works of H. P. Lovecraft, to...

I have a rough road map, sometimes with key scenes planned out, but no real idea how I'm going to navigate between those key scenes until something in a chapter triggers them... (especially if I'm writing it to be serial fiction - that way I can "milk" the serial for all it's worth while still...