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Ok, so 8-star is pretty easy, then?

I always rate my stuff because doing so auto-updates the read counts. It gives me an idea of how many people are reading my chapters and when. And having my current projects on my reading list just staring at me expectantly motivates me to write them. Honestly, if you've got any kind of...

I'm not sure what OSU is, so I'm going to go ahead and assume I'm uncommonly awesome at it. Voted for 10 star maps. I assume those are the hardest? If it's the opposite, then definitely 1-star.

What if Joan of Arc had been a genius with magical powers? What if King Arthur had been a girl who could unlock the the powers of an ancient statue rather than pull a sword from a stone? And what if both sentences described you, Valkyrie Valicent, and you found all this out before you'd even...

Honestly, I wish I could update my novels daily, and I would if I could make a living as an author. But almost all of us here are hobbyists, and we write what we want when we feel inspired to write it. Unfortunately, real life gets in the way and there's only so much time in a day that can be...

Thicc?

Why is most isekai romance on this site bad? For the same reason that most non-isekai romance is bad, most action scenes are bad, and there aren't that many great villains. All of that stuff is hard to write, and it's a lot easier to write half-assed smut that doesn't require much insight or...

Microdosing. Definitely microdosing.

If you have access to a computer, you can always print chapters to .pdf format and then access the individual printed chapters however you like.

I like to use sound effects to provide active environmental cues - that is, when the sound is changing over time and relevant to the scene. When the sound is constant or playing throughout the whole environment, something can hum, rustle, or chime. But when a sound is filtering across a...

I only ever post drafts to here. My MO is to post my rough draft to Patreon and then do very minor editing to the same document before posting here.

Lots of writers, even some professional ones, feel the need to add way too many details into fight scenes. In my opinion, your description of the fight scene should be just detailed enough to pull the reader through the important parts of the fight without slowing it down too much. And keep in...

I agree with @Saileri . Put your existing content on Patreon without a paywall and put your exclusive content behind the paywall. This way, people can happenacross your Patreon site and sample the goods and decide whether your writing is for them. It's a lot more welcoming than scoping out an...

(Spoilers) In my story, Visions of Dark & Light, one of the characters, Rill, is a fire goddess summoned into a human body. At first, her powers are greatly weakened, but they gradually grow as she uses them and becomes used to how they work with her new body. In one heist scene, she gets into a...

I've been enjoying @Tejoka 's novel, Reverse Reincarnation, which involves a lot of kingdom-building, geopolitics, cultivation, diplomacy, and warfare. It's about a woman who finds herself unexpectedly awaken as the princess of an empire and the steps she has to take to make sure her mother's...

I recently posted some of my stuff to Royal Road. It got flagged because it's also published here, and they resolved the issue within an hour as soon as I added a note to my synopsis about cross-posting the novels.

I've never complained to the admins about troll reviews, and all of my troll reviews are still up. Unless you complain about them, nothing will happen with them. Personally, I just view it as a hazard of living in a world with assholes in it.

Anything with more than 20 reviews that has below a 4 is generally too poorly-written for me to consider. That said, I'll still read the synopsis if the tags are right. And, if the synopsis reads really well and there are a bunch of 1 ratings (and few 2s or 3s), then I'll assume the story was...

Most of the works that I post here are full-on novels. My usual chapter length is anywhere from 5000-9000 words (I write long chapters), but I cut them in half for SH in order to spread chapters out into more posts and extend the release of stories.

I take an impressionistic approach to settings. I take the most notable and most visceral parts of the environment and make sure they're featured as early as possible in the scene to make sure the reader can put a reasonably good image in their head. The small things and unimportant details...