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Where I grew up in Michigan the schedule was: Kindergarten 8 to noon OR noon to four (one teacher, two groups of kids) First through 6th grade 8 AM to 3:30 PM 7-12 grade 7 AM to 2:30 PM. Most clubs when I was growing up were either during the lunch period or after the last class of the day. We...

Just found out about a company doing what you propose on a larger scale - Draft2Digital. (And they charge 10% of each sale). Unfortunately, they only focus on completed books, not serial fiction - a service like this for serial fiction would be cool but I'm not sure if it would be feasible.

Simplest: Magic is the ability to tap into forces outside of the character to make changes to the area around the character. Most Complex: Magic varies by method and source. Sources can be the Fundamental (Elemental) Forces (Metal, Plant, Water, Fire, Air, Void, Spirit) or Celestial (Demonic...

Name: Morten Race: Rabitoid History: Morten does not know if he was always a meter tall humanoid rabbit or if that happened after he met the sweet but mentally deficient human girl Roberta Thayne, his Soul Keeper (though they try to pretend the relationship runs the other direction). He...

Possibly weird question but are the Roman gods just renamed Greek Gods or are they separate entities (i.e. is Minerva also Athena or are they distinct? same with Mars and Ares, or Jupiter and Zeus, etc.)? I'd be tempted to pull something with Aztec deities - though some of them could get kind...

I have considered trying to do a pure female to male story but just cannot get into the right mindset. Do have plans for one story to have a female character who earns her living as a male actor - but that's because she inherited her dead dad's shapeshifting powers and plays HIM on a television...

There was a movie about six years ago that kind of sort of followed their history (it was not very good but did have some very "Stooge-like" comedy moments), and I know our market is not the only one but there may not be many others, where one of the local channels has a Three Stooges marathon...

You want some real "fun" with this - look to E. E. "Doc" Smith's "Lensmen" stories - the Lensmen themselves are just elite, well, superheroes in space (they were partial inspiration for the Green Lantern Corps - not the original character, but the Silver Age version - in DC Comics), but the two...

Gut feeling: In this context "Another World" refers to an alternate reality. Otherwise, Transhuman novels (where characters are disembodied consciousnesses placed in mechanical or artificially grown bodies, and often, but not always, can relocate to more appropriate bodies as needed for their...

I first heard this on a sit-com ("Head of the Class") but learned later it is true - a certain Cuban pitcher was torn between becoming a professional baseball player or a political leader. He did well in the minor leagues but bombed out in his first major league game due to errors made on the...

IME, most post apocalyptic stories are either some other genre pretending to be science fiction. allegories of mankind's sins, or a mix; at least the ones I've seen. For example, there is "Ariel: A Book of the Change" which seems a standard fantasy adventure novel (the apocalypse is the sudden...

What exactly IS Isekai? Are the English Schoolchildren find Gate to Another World stories of C. S. Lewis, E. Nesbitt, Joy Chant and a few others Isekai? Is the Dungeons & Dragons cartoon Isekai (it could even be argued that the kids died on a faulty roller coaster and the world Dungeon Master...

Have not read your story so maybe off base here but it seems like it would be possible to do some aspects of kingdom building as discussions between characters (especially if the MC/narrator is overhearing discussions that are relevant to current issues being faced). Now, again just talking in...

Moments of humor that feel "natural" and not forced, no matter how dark the story gets.

As an aside, have not responded to the poll because I do not KNOW. I know the cats have looked at some stuff before I posted it but don't know if they really READ it or just glanced by in passing. I believe I have at least one bot and at least one human as readers but have no real proof of either.

I personally would never have either intentionally (accidental piercings ... well, were accidents and were allowed to heal up naturally). And very few who know me would say that I AM in my right mind... But I have no issue with any of these things. In some cultures, these are signs of beauty...

No "Family and In-laws" or "Current Teachers" options?

The advice I have gotten in the past is: 1. Set challenges to yourself; try writing from a different POV, or in a different genre, even if just for a few paragraphs or something. 2. Definitely set a schedule - but include in that schedule time for editing and reading. One author who recently...

Tie between "Something Unique to the Setting" or "Human (or close enough to pass for human)" for me.

Hope you did not think I was accusing you of being a scammer - just that there is a long website of known scams offering services like that that I was following for a while (most of them have "Amazon" somewhere in the name of the company, even though apparently only one ever was associated with...