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My weaknesses are character descriptions and writing romance. I just don't like giving character descriptions because, in most cases, I just feel like they break up the flow of the chapter. As for the romance, I'm an asexual aromantic, so the entire concept of romance in the story is just a...

My sanity levels are definitely pretty low. My fingers hurt, but for some reason I am still typing and still going on with writing chapter after chapter for my story.

Introduction The subject of world building came up recently. I thought I would give my own contribution to the discussion by getting into the types of and approaches to world building in some detail. There are 3 primary approaches toward world building. They are called top-down, bottom-up and...

What are their powers in leu of the rock and the rope? Because just psykokinetically manipulating a rock and a rope seems extremely and weirdly overly specific. I'm saying what is the actual power by itself, without the rock and rope in the picture. Then, introduce the goal separately. Because...

Ok, I feel like you brought us into this situation without properly explaining the power at all. Or, your order of explanation is just weird. How about you start over by explaining exactly what your character's power is, and then after that's well explained you can describe what you're trying...

Hmm... sounds like a good role-model to me. No, seriously. I'm actually in the process of doing something similar. Thus far, I have just started into my 4th series set in the same grander multiverse. I also have a single story going on with Earth that is pulling them all together, with the rest...

Like I said, the messiness of art. I also said I did not think he was fully redeemed due to certain messy mitigating factors. But, there's ground to say action Vs. thought here. If you look at his actions, apart from bigomy, he did not actually act on any of his depraved thoughts from the moment...

You can think what you like about the books, but MT was rated #1 for 3 years in a row and it also had the most influence of the 5 in terms of the effect it had on the Isekai story tropes moving forward. And, all of the reasons it succeeded were on the technical level. It wasn't the romance...

This sounds like a skill issue to me... or maybe a selection bias. If you look around at the series that are lauded and which actually make it big, well... yeah, they are a little less deep than stuff that was written in the 80s, but they are still incredibly good books on a technical level...

Lol. Well, how do you like that? So many people doing Wifu cover arts has, in fact, made it so Wifu cover arts are not so appealing anymore. (This isn't even counting the fact that they seem to be getting algorythmically suppressed. That said, I think this advice only really matters if you're...

Funny story. I once contemplated getting into making gaming Youtube videos. I was not cut out for editing, so it never went anywhere, but I was going to call myself "Gassy Charmander" because I thought it was hilarious.

Unless you're talking about Warhammer 40K Orcs. Those guys are freaking hilarious. I don't even play Warhammer, I only know about them through lore summaries, but oh god I just had a smile on my face the entire time I was learning about how gloriously simple yet messed up their culture is!

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My last sign of a REALLY good author. Things exist off-screen in a very real way. The more real the off-screen things are, the better. At the most basic, this would mean things like the author did a lot of worldbuilding, but didn't tell the reader much about it. However, the fact the author...

Oh, a second sign of a good author. If they manage to do something, especially in their 1st chapter, where a single portion of the text does at least 2 things at once. Such as, delivering exposition while also establishing characterization. That's a fairly basic one, but efficient writing where...

My cardinal sign that the author is good is if they do something that is hard for the author to do and implies a lot of research and effort went into the writing. Things like creating their own language, demonstrating well-researched geopolitical or economic knowledge, or having characters act...