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Here is my issue - what exactly is "sexual content"? Is it two characters kissing? Is it full on hard core porn? Are two characters intently cuddling with implied sex after "sexual content"? Is it a Roman Orgy? Since people self-tag in most cases, some may flag a story as "sexual content"...

It depends on what feels most natural to the writer. Some lean towards tragedy, others to comedy in the classical sense (i.e. most of Shakespeare's comedies were not what we would generally consider a "comedy" but all had happy endings; some of his tragedies are downright hilarious but have...

Unless the party did everything wrong when the guys were present and does everything perfectly when they are not (and the same holds true if there was a mixed gender party and the women get left behind), this should not be a problem. And you could always have them stumble on a male prisoner to...

If you point it out politely, it will almost always be appreciated. If you insult the writer or just state it in a confrontational way, you will definitely get a negative response. I keep finding little errors in my longer works that ... well, in a professional setting, hopefully an editor...

Dave Lister (Red Dwarf) Cat (Also Red Dwarf) Can't recall the character's name or series but there was an anime with a "healer" who had a bunch of potions that USUALLY healed the subject, but almost always with side effects - that were sometimes worse than the injury. That character. Pilot...

IMO, it would depend on how explicit it gets. If it is just "Yeah, this happened" or the archetypal classic James Bond "They are clearly into each other, they embrace, fade to black, then one of them is getting out of bed wearing minimal clothes and it is clear some time has passed" it should...

For Point One, it is not a bad thing per se, but it is WAY WAY WAY overdone, especially for audio novels like PocketFM. It does get grating after a while. Especially since it is almost always a Son or Son-in-Law who gets treated this way (and there is almost always a nasty mother-in-law or...

Try to make your characters feel real, and it will come naturally unless you just don't know anyone funny and have not read anything that is. Seriously - if you force it, it won't work but if you let it come on its own, let it just feel as "real" as you can, it should show up, even in some...

One old games magazine had a great format for reviews, but one that is hard to follow, especially when reviewing chapters: "Opening Paragraph: List overall impression, three good and three bad things. If the review is mostly positive, then have three paragraphs, one for each negative point...

Does WarCraft use the same "big four" as WarHammer and WarHammer40K (Tzeentch, Slaanesh, Nurgle, Khorne)? Slaanesh, as the God of Pleasure and Decadence, fiction would pretty much be guaranteed NSFW, of course. Khorne the Bloodletter (god off battle) and Tzeentch, The Changer of Ways (God of...

So far I've just been using white space - or just ending a chapter and starting a new one, depending on how the break falls out. Then again, about half of what I've been writing is first person, so scene changes tend to BE chapter breaks. I may go to lines or something, maybe ---|--- or some...

I am not someone who tends to read/watch Rom Coms in general BUT I tend to slip "rom-com" moments into my writing, sometimes at odd moments, and like it when other fiction does this. One story I am working on has, essentially, a rom-com couple in a more traditional fantasy-adventure story...

I'm very glad to see this thread, by the way - until I saw how many things are tagged as LitRPG, I was under the impression that the genre was more akin to the old "Choose Your Own Adventure" books with the "reader" playing a character with stats and mechanics to determine outcomes (and what...

A few weeks ago I got into a discussion with someone who had been part of MicroSoft's effort to create an AI (abandoned when ChatGPT got "out in the wilds" and did everything they tried to do, only better in most cases - about a month before they were ready to go beta). He pointed out that...

So... hypothetical. Two of the dozen or so stories I am working on (so far have only shared one anywhere) are as follows: Tumbleweeds: The main character is executed for being a vigilante in this world, wakes up in a world that looks like a Hollywood Western, with a Virtual Interface Command...

Not sure if this is how links work here but what the heck... Diamond in the Rough | Scribble Hub

It would very case by case. Sometimes "fan fiction" can become canon. And sometimes it may be better than official material. Sometimes it is used to retell an event from a different point of view and changes nothing but perception. But other times it must be viewed as an alternate...