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I believed that until I had to break out of it and undo changes after losing track of some in a document once... It's easy if you keep it in small files but not if you have one long document.

There are variations of it. The "Despicable [son/daughter/son-in-law]" who suddenly gains power, but nobody believes it until it's too late, the character who was under a curse for a while and not able to use any power who suddenly has the curse lifted... It can be done well, but it can be...

The BIG problem is one I found out the hard way years ago - unless you use the exact ASCII code for each of the six symbols (open, close and "straight" ' and "), the Find/Replace feature does not differentiate. So it may only pick up one sort and change it but miss all the rest, or it may make...

When it is both obvious and lazy.

That was the British or Canadian standard for part of the 20th century, and can be a style choice.

From some other comments I've seen, I suspect there are a few people who have bots that go down-vote any story that might challenge theirs in some way, and they unleash them for petty reasons (dislike the author? Unleash the rating bot! Dislike one of the tags the author used? Unleash the...

RR is just WEIRD. Have had some very good discussions there, but then others that went sideways FAST. And very little activity on anything I've written there. Had not expected a lot, but more than I've gotten (a single 3 star review on one of two stories).

In my opinion - and I do not know if these are the current or former definitions or if it is JUST my opinion: Low Fantasy - fantasy were magic probably exists, but is minor or has little impact on the story; if there is a monster or a fantastic beast of some sort, it either appears human, is...

I'm just repeating the advice I see on similar threads. Kind of agree with you but, it also seems to work. I do suspect the most important one is #7: Tags,

From the other posts on the subject: Post 10-20 chapters in your first two weeks if at all possible, then stick to a steady schedule. Have an eye-catching cover (with "sexy people" if possible) Have chapters of a consistent length, generally between 1000 and 2000 words per chapter. If you must...

It all goes back to the Norman Invasion of England. The French-raised new rulers of the island were unhappy that not only did they have trouble communicating with the locals, the locals in one area had trouble talking to some of their neighbors and decided to write the first English...

Oh man - a real-estate department for all the land control games could really rake in the (virtual?) dough...

Good question. I haven't seen many examples, but haven't looked very hard either, which is odd, as it is a genre I tend to gravitate towards both as a reader and a writer in physical novels.

IPityDa Fu?

I pointed out the first dozen or so on the actual page.

Made it 2/3 of the way through the prologue - a LOT of little tiny issues added up and made it just not worth continuing, even if the action was intriguing. It feels like this was written quickly in another language then tossed into a second tier AI translation tool to produce an...

Depends on the genre. If you are really in doubt, use the poll feature to see if your readers have noticed and object, or are sticking around because of it, or really just never noticed. Now, if you don't have any (or many) readers, then maybe reconsider what you are doing and either start...

She either didn't know or forgot it by the time she told me about the show. It's on a streaming service that gouges the heck out of anyone ($2 per 3-5 minute episode, or $20 per week or $50 per month - but if you try to cancel they drop it 50% for an unspecified time).

My wife found a Japanese serial drama kind of along these lines. Actually, wish I had thought of it... A guy has a food truck that somehow can travel through time - not sure if it was explained and she just didn't get it, or they never did give a reason why - but he uses it to travel to times...

IME, there are three types of writers: 1. Those who kind of want to but never try, 2. those who suck, and 3. those who believe they suck... :)