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to put it simply. if it WASN'T for the sake of improving the character or setting an important plot point... there would be no valid reason to include it to begin with. there's nothing wrong with opening on something tough or hard -- though it does narrow your reading audience steeply -- as...

It's world-building. but generic? nope. I am doing this with an intent and making it generic denies me that. a generic world-building thread, would be me as OP making a tons of guides and rules on "how you should do this. how you should do that. things to consider when." If I could do that I...

education in schools is almost entirely memorisation with a bit of critical thinking and intuition. so its a very frequent thing for people to be "smart" yet "dumb/foolish/idiotic" at the same time xD

no worries the more ideas the better. besides those who have seen my writing can only label my stories as dark fantasy xD expect for things to be rather grim while occasionally lighthearted. LOL

no problem, the aim is to get as many different views as possible even if they clash and collide. even if 1 persons idea's aren't used at whole they may just become the basis behind one of the nations that will be present and possible a key guiding point of the story at large. My own views would...

imagine a planet where the northern hemisphere is almost entirely a single desert continent, the south being an almost entirely frozen continent. the midlands are the equator region and a bit above and below, the sole place the planet can sustain "human" life.

this is a pretty good prompt to think over. It's a rather well established one many overlook. I have read stories where the special item is anything from a mirror, to a ring, to string, to a random rock picked up off the ground. it is a bit more common in the Chinese novels as they try to outdo...

Who knows, lol. There are multiple races and each would have their own life expectancy compounded with cultural and lifestyle decisions that either increase or reduce it. The North has a more free spirit approach I guess, while the South is very structured and organised as a whole entity. So the...

Not everyone in a nation at war gets sent to the front. there are plenty of administrative or productive etc jobs that do not involve getting harmed. like most forms of discrimination, stems from those who think they don't have enough and thus want to maximise their returns by singling out the...

mostly because the japanese like to base their comics and webnovels off of the same 3 things, a big one of them being classic games from when games were first developed. whereas as what I am doing is what most western fantasy writers try to do, which is create the lore for their world to be...

So I tried to flesh out a story with some other writers and the topic was the native cultures inherent to the world, its various regions, tribes, nations and races. We saw some progress, but ran out of time. So I figured, "why not invite the potential readers to contribute their opinions" and...

very well. Ugwh, God of pennies, space debris and unfinishe

it's wasted effort to care too much about the casual comments of readers :P

personally, the original isn't good enough to get a piece of "fanfiction". just take the bits you liked and write your own story on top of those elements with a new MC. as for being a proper author, please remember that basically almost all authors have dayjobs not involved in writing. its...

a mathematician once made a proof using formulae to prove that 1 plus 1 will forever and always equal 2. because god forbid there are times where 1 plus 1 isn't 2 and thus all of modern engineering could come crashing down around us.

Feel free to share any and all idea's even if you plan to use them in whatever combinations in your own works. there is nothing to fear in talking about ideas because everyone gets them. the true value is in the implementation. You can tell 100 people your idea, perhaps only 5-6 will act on...

If the story is here on SH, check the attributions. some authors will upload their stuff with the tag either saying they reserve Copyrights or they are opening it up to public domain or creative commons. know what each means in specific detail such that you can work around your limitations...

when do the SSSC4 submissions appear on homepage? I know there are 2 entries so far but it looks like none.

now just need to write my story and wait for SSSC IV option to go live in story editor.

does prompt 1 have to be in that direction? what about the reverse? as for #3... pass.