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  1. Varstark

    The Eye of Demun

    Is this a sequel of an existing story? Who, what or where is Simius? Also, the way the name Thomas mixes with Orokio Musoxee isn't really doing anything to help the alienation readers are feeling from this summary, as well as a father with a full-time job being kicked off on an adventure, most...
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    Authors ruining their stories with terrible romance

    I mean, I'm sure you've at least heard of a case like some genius scientist wishing he could be a poet or athlete or something, even if he's utter shit at it. That said, good romance either requires a good imagination coupled with high emotional intelligence and/or an extensive IRL experience...
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    Here's a question for everyone

    This is what I've been led to believe as well.
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    Day 1: Had some fucked up weird-ass dream. Gonna write it down. Day 132: I have finally...

    Day 1: Had some fucked up weird-ass dream. Gonna write it down. Day 132: I have finally achieved a perfect state of lucid dreaming.
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    Man, Mankind, or Humanity?

    Etymology can give nice history lessons. IIRC, 'boy' meant 'male servant' while 'girl' came from the word for 'child'. English really is the language of simps.:ROFLMAO:
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    Man, Mankind, or Humanity?

    I grew up watching Lord of the Rings repeatedly, so Man, Men or Mankind just makes it a mite bit cooler for me, and it feels very classical. That, or Terran, because I replayed the Starcraft campaigns a little too much. Gendered language being offensive is very much a modern, cult-ish kneejerk...
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    do you like fantasy novels? and coupled with romance?

    Came back to post because I wanted to apologise. Didn't mean to come off as antagonising on my first post. Sorry about that. Reasons why we're not particularly supportive of your story: people are oversaturated on the thousand year old loli and FBI jokes, your post sounds like an attempt to...
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    The scribblehub terms of service do not allow fiction ?

    Top Ten Stories That End With the Hero Writing an Autobiography
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    Do you guys always skip a certain song when it starts playing and never remove it, or am I just weird?

    To me it just means I'm not in the mood for it. I listen to anime songs only once in a couple of moons, but I still have my old collection gathering dust in the memory just in case.
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    Tribal mentality

    Questions for this hypothetical scenario: 1. Is there a draft? 2. Is "me" a man or a woman? 3. I assume this means that we were born, raised and live in the same country and culture. Also, there is nothing in this world that isn't political. What you're asking for is 'political ambiguity' at...
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    do you like fantasy novels? and coupled with romance?

    Quite a bit of fanfare you've got going on here. 800 year old fox loli must be something astronomically special to get a (I assume) grown man to fall in love with her romantically, because that amount of neoteny does a terrific job of warding off romantic feelings. In a world where something...
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    I forgot which Rance game was written by a woman. It might have been the character himself...

    I forgot which Rance game was written by a woman. It might have been the character himself, though. I'm not sure.
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    How to Capture a Story?

    The first wave of wako pirates on Korea, the Imjin War, or the first Sino-Japanese war? And what did the Japanese do that was new under the sun? Edit: Internet is terrible for naunce. Not antagonising, just genuinely asking.
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    Does this actually work?

    Common thing in any sort of art. Going through a mental block? Even more crucial that you keep on steaming ahead so that it ingrains itself into your brain further. On the writing side, Stephen King writes at least ten pages a day, IIRC.
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    2nd Chance

    Karl Marx. Would be interesting to have him see the lengths people have taken his name on both sides.
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    Why Lovecraft is cringy, a self reflection

    Quite a number of Japanese artists and authors, particularly light novel authors whose works a lot of publications on this site are inspired by, are pretty much 2chan/matome licking right wingers who think of Chinese and Koreans as lessers. Separating an artist from the art has its limit, and...
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    .......................................

    1. Why is the handle green? It does seem to be transparent. Ghost sword? 2. Is the sword supposed to be a soft glow or a harsh glow like a lightsaber? Hologram-ish? Because I've no idea how you went for the lighting in contrast. 3. The eyes seem a little cross-eyed. 4. Left upper arm is too...
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    Writing MC as a peasant/ villager

    On the OP's post, the MC being the everyman villager is more a modern invention, as we focus more on the individual over the community instead of the other way round. Back then, the everyman villager almost certainly never journeyed too far away from the place of his birth, so epic tales in...
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    Writing MC as a peasant/ villager

    The variation of suck-ness will depend on the level of agricultural development in your part of the world. If you're producing enough that you can go the bed most nights with a decently full belly, you might have the time and energy for leisure. Still sucks, though. What's a rogue knight...
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    For all you mind readers of scribblehub

    Yes, there are advantages to writing by hand. Aside from granting a vastly different writing pace and mood for a new perspective, erotica authors would allegedly masturbate while writing. I have no idea if OCR softwares are good enough to cut out the labour required to digitise it, though.
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