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The Orks and Gobbos (goblins) of that system both evolved (devolved?) from the creatures called "Squigs," who were tiny, dumb creatures until they find fungi that made them super geniuses. They bred for goblin (small, fast, agile, very dexterous) and ork lines (dumb, big, tough, strong, tough -...

Usually. Sometimes it is done for mention in the credits, or a free copy if it gets published. Occasionally it is even paid, but that is rare.

Somewhere between a reader and an editor, someone who looks over a, probably mid-point, draft and might make recommendations, or just say "You're on the right path, keep up the good work" or "Don't quit the day job" I've tried to be a beta reader a few times. Was actually helpful about three...

That is a very cool cover

Cool. Have tried to do this in role-playing games and it is at least as much of a challenge there as in writing. If I ever get enough of "Stranded" finished for posting (it's about an alien scout who was separated from the racial hive mind by an accident that also left him stranded on the...

The concepts seemed strongest in the first. The graphics seemed best in the second. Everything seemed to go slowly but steadily downhill from there, except in terms of power level due to power creep, which is an every rising benchmark. Favorite concepts were Pikachu, Charmander and the plant...

If this is the same series of stories I think it is, googling it would only create more confusion anyway.

Nice. As someone who tends to mix genres regularly, I'm probably not very good with the "promise." One thought though - the thing about the first chapter being the "grabber"; that absolutely applies to a traditional novel, but for serial novels, it may have to be more like television shows...

It is only "procrastination" if you only work on the other novel(s)... Otherwise it is "The Asimov Method" (though I first heard of Piers Anthony doing it, he learned it from Isaac Asimov - if you have enough works in progress, if you hit "writers' block" on one, you will be able to pick up...

Oh, if you don't mind tracking down semi-obscure obscure collections, author Esther Friesner edited a series of "Chicks in Chainmail" books (shortish fantasy stories written by women or by men invited to submit stories to the collections with the only requirement being that the main character is...

I think that means it is competent but does not stand out. You have not ruffled any feathers, but also not done anything that really impressed someone. Or you just wrote something good but that does not appeal to the audience where you posted it. I'm more annoyed by people who read one or two...

It is nearly impossible to do something truly original. An author who can take old ideas and merge them in a way that makes them feel fresh is a good author. One who can do that AND throw in something that surprises a jaded reader is exceptional. And then you have that passage from...

I have seen, I think, five of the Fate/xxx stories and they were all cool, and all violated the rules established in the earlier ones to some degree (though that may be due to translation/dubbing as the names listed do not sound exactly like what was on screen but close). It is a realm that I...

Have tried to do collaborations in the past. Usually either wind up doing all the work or, when we get together, we find out we were taking things in such different directions that we'd be better off just being editors of each other's work and doing our own thing than trying to work together...

If the words are your own, even if the word CHOICES may not be, it should be fine. If you're just using the AI to fix holes in the story or even do the bulk of the work, then that is not a good thing.

This is true. Took me two tries to get through it but it was worth the fight ... eventually.

I think that's kind of the background of the novel "Boneshaker" (which is also kind of a zombie apocalypse story and kind of a caper story).

My senior year in college I had an Armenian girlfriend, and she pointed out (was only really barely aware of herself, but more was amused by) how Indian mythology shaped both her homeland's faith (and, even more, colored their "version" of Christianity when they adopted it) but also the Celtic...

So far I like the solid color one here, second one, best.

I am sadly lacking in knowledge of the Babylonian and Sumerian mythoi, having just found bits and pieces, many of them contradictory, over the years. Completely missed that point (and that makes at least three different Creation Stories in The Bible - Genesis has two, the poetic "one day at a...