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If you want finished novels, I do not yet have anything to offer and my two posted both skirt fantasy but don't really fall into it. But if you are willing to look at stuff with only a few chapters "out in the wild", if I did it right they should both be in my signature. Edit: Just saw about...

Well, things are in progress but for the two stories posted, Well, in the first book ("finished" at 24 chapters plus epilogue but only at 7 or 8 posted; Diamond in the Rough); Jack Diamond's biggest glazer is probably his partner Milt, though his rival partners in the second book may push him...

Or he just needs a better PR guy....

Since your main question seems to be about giving characters realistic reactions: 1. Practice (i.e. write) 2. Observe how people in the real world react to things. 3. More practice 4. Observe how characters in TV and movies react to things and make a note of what "works," what "feels forced,"...

Since you seem to be making magic an expression of will rather than "power" I would be tempted to call it "psionics" or "mentalism" - and I usually include this as an "outlawed magic" - traditional magic-users HATE these people with the "short cut" and hunt them down, much as witches were...

Other than having no stamina at all I seem almost fully recovered. Incidentally that was the most likely cause. Other possible explanations (my mind literally is a blank from the moment I closed the door on the porch until I woke up in a hospital bed) 1. An old leg injury flared up as I was...

How about this: All the attempts to force the Hero to transmigrate have built up a body count... the police get involved and a sense of honor or nobility leads the MC to accept his fate and go to his execution for multiple murders knowing he did what he had to. But the execution does not...

Never force the story unless you really know exactly what you want to do with it. Never. If the story NEEDS to be darker, it will find a way, or you will find a way to tell it without the darkness you felt it needed. Now, sometimes a story will get away from you - I had one that got so dark...

Until I read one of Robert E. Howard's old boxing stories, I avoided sports stories like the plague and still am unlikely to read them. I am also unlikely to read "smut" (despite loving Tom Lehrer's old song about it, a march for his cause ... Smut) - but I reserve the option to read anything...

Do not recommend (after endless tests it appears I just accidentally put a sleeping pill in with my daily medicine and passed out, somehow, on the neighbor's lawn)... but it did give me some time to write. Finished "Diamond in the Rough" and started on a sequel (yeah, getting ahead of myself a...

I'm a bit weird - I look for EITHER something that falls into a genre I'm interested in (and there are a lot), that has 10-20 chapters posted (more than that and I'll probably never catch up, less than that and it might not be a serious effort) - OR - I look for something where the author says...

I have come close to doing this a few times but (as far as I know) have caught myself each time before it got out of hand. One way I avoided it is by having part of the story happen on another world where the regular day names don't make sense (though the characters actually know the "correct"...

Would probably need more details to give a useful answer - does he go as far from humanity as the protagonist in "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream" by Harlan Ellison? Or is it more like succumbing to the darkness within as in the various World of Darkness RPGs? Most likely, the character...

I have seen two that addressed this fairly well - Leo Frantkowski's Conrad Stargard series (The Crosstime Engineer, The Flying Warlord, The Radiant Knight, Lord Conrad's Lady and a fifth one that I just found out was released after I thought the series was finished) even has the hero lamenting...

The sword "family" (ranging from the tiny main gauche - essentially a buckler with a dagger sticking out of it - all the way up to the Claymore or Zwiehander) has been highly romanticized in fiction thanks to its long use in Europe (heck, swords training is even required for some modern military...

IME, people who identify as "vegetarians" are likely to, at worst, give you a dirty look when you eat meat in their presence, but generally accept that their way may not be for everyone. Those who call themselves "vegan" - and this is just my experience, others may differ - tend to be more...

Don't really have a favorite - easiest place for me to write is while waiting in the car when my wife (a home health care nurse) is in visiting patients.

To be honest, none are all that appealing to me (and I would probably suggest mixing and matching stuff from them to do something even wilder), but all of them could work.

The experience is different for different people. My mother always describes it as "I was nervous until the curtain came up, but then it was not me on that stage but [character she was playing]" While for me it was always "This is my character; this is what he is supposed to say/do/feel. I...

Constantly. Heck, I have more story "stubs" that I started and honestly no longer remember where they were going than I do "active" stories and I have two active stories here, six more in various stages of writing. One of the stories here is almost finished on my computer but only at 7...