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Right? Not the kind of cruelty she's looking for, poor girl.

Yeah, as promotional material I think it's not a good strategy-- one fic won't change people's view of things, and my feeling is both people are more likely to read an author's AU than a fic of their world, and unlikely to read a fic without at least a passing familiarity of what it's based on...

Prequel for @ElliePorter specifically:

First is definitely not enough broken up IMO, unless you're doing extremely specific things with it, like a run-on sentence for the sake of comedy or someone panicking in a claustrophobic way. I use a variety, though-- sometimes there isn't a good point for pausing, so paragraphs get a bit on...

I mean, that sounds like something you could absolutely lean into? For example, you could make something about theater, or theater kids, or set in an inherently dramatic world. But: if you want to get better at writing parts of the conversation without words, I'd suggest trying to write a...

#2 and #5 in a vacuum, betrayal+murder and leaving an entire town without food are hard to top. Gotta say though, depends most on the why of the action, every time. I can imagine ways to have me either outright rooting for the protagonist or at least understanding the protagonist and feeling...

Is the story of how he became a shut-in as or more interesting than the rest of the story in itself? If so, you can start with that if you want, or flashback once you present the premise. You can have half the novel be the backstory, if the backstory is super interesting. Probably not as...

Offhand: mental place is constructed from lots of masculine-coded stone and feminine-coded flowing water, and the protagonist is somehow more stone-aligned than they usually would be-- rocky skin, gem in forehead, rock armor, whatever.

From what I've read, re: Amazon: if you're writing a larger book, you can get away with more in sex scenes if they're a minority of the content-- doubly so if you're a famous author. If you're writing sex-focused stuff, you should be really careful to follow their rules that are specifically...

...people turning into weapons?

The majority of my stories definitely include noncon and/or dubcon in them-- but they don't encourage it. I had assumed that's allowed, partially because of the wording of the rule (Encouraging Non-Consensual Sexual Content - These are stories that are encouraging non-consensual sexual acts...

I think there's some that kinda glorify it inside the fiction, given their synopses-- but I haven't really read them, so several grains of salt. Also, that might just be they are breaking the rules but no one has complained, and it's not like Tony is reading every word of every novel (...I assume.)

...I mean, there's also a Rape tag. You may be thinking of some other platform ToSes? I mean, that is something to consider if you're considering selling it on Amazon one day or something, which is the big ebook place these days? Including rape in a smut story is absolutely against the rules there.

Try to befriend them.

There's a Mind Control tag, so I'm pretty sure it's not in itself against ToS. To go back to the original question: if you're confident in your ability and/or very enthusiastic about writing relationships, land development, economics, strategy, and sociopolitical change, I'd write the first...

In my experience writing smut on here and occasionally checking stats, a pretty small percentage of my views come from people clicking in from other smut stories, rather than clicking in from tags / front page / etc. Because of this, I theorize what you get associated with doesn't have all that...

Do group social activities and meet new people, and you may find new friends.

I'd make yourself write-- but not that story specifically. Go write a short story, or some poetry, or the first chapter of another novel. Then after your brain has gotten used to the fact that not wanting to write that one thing won't let it stop writing entirely, play with ideas that used to...

I'm pretty closer to pantser. I do a bit of daydreaming about possible directions for the story, have a general plan for the next chapter but not usually much further, and don't usually do more than a single editing pass.

I think it's mainly that usually with a long novel you'd break it up into several books-- but having it separated out into books has no use with webnovels, rather, doing that can just make it harder for readers to find it.