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Looks like you have a good core concept here but there are some odd ... quirks. Several points it looks like the ideas were coming out faster than you could write them and some details fell through the resulting cracks. There is also at least one strange shift in tense that just feels like a...

It depends on the style of the story and the writer. I have not posted mine anywhere yet, but 90% of the action is split between two worlds, at least 1/5 or so of the story in (chapter 50 or so). One world has a single scene so far (and will get a few more but not a lot) and I have not...

Two of mine (Strange Awakening, Diamond in the Rough) are technically superhero though that is more a sub-genre than a focus (one is noir-horror-superhero, the other is ... even more complicated, and also the only one of the two with any traction). 4 or maybe 5 seems about right.

Before or after spreading your tailfeathers for the maximum possible display?

Haven't gotten past the first paragraph due to too many other things demanding my time. Feedback on the cover was easy... :D

Having been that guy (wasn't over tea... don't even remember either of the two times I had it pointed out after the fact and suspect there were a few more that I flat out missed with no hints - and then there was a girl who approached me on the Chicago "El" solely because I was reading a book by...

I would suggest removing the first "The" - "Rise of the Crime Lord" may be more evocative than "The Rise of the Crime Lord" - then reduce the font size on the "By Line" to maybe half or 2/3 the current size and move it to one of the bottom corners of the image and increase the size of the actual...

I can say from experience that this will net a variation of one of four replies: 1) Oh, you're a writer? Go away. I want someone who can earn a living. 2) Oooh - write something special for me, please? 3) Take five steps back or I'm calling the cops. 4) Oh, I already know that. Come on...

My "time skips" are usually of the "The next few days passed uneventfully but then XXXX happens." or "Aside from YYYY, the week went by in a blur of preparations and mundane activities." Stuff like that.

What type of story/stories do you write? This seems to be a good place for offbeat romance stuff, usually with either a gender swap or other LGBTQ content but not a lot of boy on boy stuff for some reason, and fantasy elements. Other sites are better for horror, mysteries, more traditional...

Strange Awakening: 9 days. Diamond in the Rough: Not there yet after 30 days.

So a magical version of the movie "Face/Off" (used plastic surgery in that one IIRC)? If they know it is only for one day, then there is a LOT of little damage they could do - but if they do not know, then they could do even wilder things - start or destroy relationships, drain bank accounts...

If it's Egghead and its not played by the late Vincent Price, I'm not interested... :D

The Red Shoes Well... the whole story was allegedly an allegory for a teenaged girl getting her first period so... Now THAT one I never heard before! Have heard a couple versions of that one - supposedly, in the original version, the slippers were FUR not GLASS... and still only fit...

In a way, the "Disneyfied" versions are the direct heirs of L. Frank Baum, and typical of "American Fairy Tales" - a lot of the European ones (especially the ones collected by Hans Christian Anderson) are really brutal and dark (The Little Mermaid is ... nasty. Just plain nasty) - and they...

One of my stories hit trending for about four hours. I have no clue why, nor why it fell off of trending so quickly either.

Didn't an American idiot replace one of the British idiots after said Brit Idjit got into some legal problems?

Novels rely on theatre of the mind; it is a big part of why I like horror fiction but am not a huge fan of horror movies (at least post late-1960s) in general - I am better at scaring myself than most directors are, and if a writer sets it up well, it will be far more effective for me than...

Take the old song "I've got a brand new pair of roller-skates, you have a brand new key" literally?

Presentation is key. Any of those can work if presented well and they fit into the story contextually.