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Worm, the web fiction to reach #1 in the English original category back in the golden era of the early 2010s where the ridiculous majority of the best web-fictions out there were written. Also famous for being the story that makes it's MC suffer so severely that it can actually traumatize the...

I've recently been engrossed in what has to be one of the most bizzare genre combinations ever. I discovered a series called Super Gene, and it is a sci-fi setting with a cultivation power system. And yet, it works so incredibly well that I would even dare to call it the single best Cultivation...

Long post alert Introduction There are several significant advantages to pulling from old lore and mythologies from the ancient world (Greek, Christian, Chinese, Japanese, and Babylonian) or the classical world (Norse, Icelandic, Slavic) to implement in your writing. The advantages are that...

It's not so much a bug as it is a faulty feature, but it seems there's some kind of auto-complete in the BB code in cases where you post partial BB code. This is a problem, because one of the most common uses of partial BB code I'm aware of is if you're trying to show the code to someone, which...

I have just released my 3rd major series, 2nd which I think has promise to go long-term (new hero god kinda fizzled due to poor planning), and am trying to get the cover art linked in my signature. I opened the BB code and copy-pasted the exact formatting I used on the 1st cover art for Key to...

Yeah, I'm being a slouch right now. ADHD effects kicking in, and I'm just finding myself unable to put down my mobile games and just get behind the computer and write. So, I thought I'd just share that and ask people to give me the "advice" I need to get myself back on track. Namely, I came...

I'm working on a story, but I am having trouble writing interactions between the mother and the MC. MC is a reincarnated person, and he was born in a prison cell where his mother is locked up and chained to the wall. The guards have decided he should stay in the prison cell with her for various...

We see this theme coming up a lot in stories. One famous example of late would be The Last of Us, in which the game's final challenge in the scenario is whether to let the girl you've been escorting the entire game be killed and dissected to find out why she's immune to the zombie virus and...

I have always been aware there are a lot of myths in regards to intelligence, but bringing up the subject in another thread and sharing my experience with it has shown me in terms of the responses that people's immersion in the myths is worse than I thought. Therefore, I decided I would share...

The lore in regards to dragons is wide and varied, with it being one of the two subjects that has appeared in the mythologies of every culture around the world in some form or another, the other being flood stories. For this reason, many have made the connection between dragons and snakes, with...

Not sure how many of you out there have experience playing the game, Legend of Mana, back from the PS1 era. However, this anime season they apparently made an anime adaptation of it. What I find most interesting about it is how well it seems to work. As a game, it was weird. It was something of...

I've got a problem in my story. I put Amashilama into my story as a fairly major character. Amashilama is a divine leech from Mesopotamian lore, and her legend deals very specifically in her being an instrumental part in bringing the god of resurrection back to life. So, if I have her as a...

Sometimes, a person makes a comment in the forums that makes you want to check out their work on the main site. Right now, the only way to really do that is to open the main site in another window and put the name into the user search. This is extra work that a lot of people might not want to...

Just found something that I'm honestly shocked is as good as it is, and thought I'd give it a shout out. But, it's not fair to just shout out this one series because I'm interested in it. So, let's make this a thing. The rules, shout out anything you think is good. Only condition, it CANNOT be...

I have the "fallen angels" tag on my Key to the Void story, but it doesn't appear in my rankings category over in statistics. EDIT: (Adding details based upon conversation further down in the thread.) My current tags list is exactly the same as it has always been since the day I created this...

So, I have a situation in my story coming up in the chapter I'm writing now. It involves something disastrously bad happening to the cast. A serious "oh shit" moment. The phrases "oh shit" or "god damn it" would both work perfectly well in this situation. However, I felt that this might be an...

I have recently come across an interesting time-loop series called "Mother of Learning" which, in addition to being well written, has a few interesting wrinkles to the usual theme. This got me thinking. We've had a fair number of time-loop plots out there. I'm sure everyone knows about...

I just got an interesting comment on a chapter of my story. It was a comment on a scene where one of my characters were doing a bunch of crazy rolls and hand-springs over and over again. A commenter accused her of trying to practice her speed-running movements so she could clip through the...

I'm looking for references on how to do a scene for a new story I'm writing. I'd like any story, regardless of genre, that has the opening paragraphs of chapter 1 describing the fact that the perspective character for the chapter is in a prison cell.

I have recently been watching the anime adaptation of a series called "Tensai Ouji no Akija Kokka Saisei Jutsu" (The Genius Prince's Guide to Raising a Nation Out of Debt), and from what I've seen of the series so far, this series has the single most accurate portrayal of a genius character I've...