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The chapter I'm currently writing has the hero encountering an iron battle golem. It's basically Robocop running Terminator software. I wanted to get across how its voice sounds really unnatural, and this is what I ended up using. Do you like it, or is it just annoying?

I loved the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater games when I was a kid. I can't tell you how many times I rented THPS3 from the local Blockbuster. Soooo many summer days spent playing that while my parents were at work and couldn't regulate my gaming time. I remember going to my grandma's house for Christmas...

I prefer to separate scenes with chapter breaks, but that's not always an option. When I absolutely have to do it mid-chapter, I like to put two bolded m-dashes between the last paragraph of the old scene and the first paragraph of the new scene. What about you?

On a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 being My Immortal and 10 being [insert the greatest author alive here], how would you rate your own writing? If we're looking at this in terms of webfiction, and 5 is what's considered the norm in terms of quality, I'd say that puts (good) professionally published...

...when the story you've been pantsing for the past few months fills in the gaps on its own and you suddenly know exactly how the rest of the book is going to go.

A couple weeks ago I made a poll asking if people preferred human or nonhuman MCs, and most of them answered nonhuman. Now I have another question. Let's say the main character starts off human, and stays that way for the first book, maybe the second too, before getting the chance to become...

Have I ever told you guys that I hate summer? The only thing I hate more than temperatures over 80 degrees are people who tell me to go out in them. That's why I downloaded Pumpkin Jack, to try and trick my brain into thinking its late October, when the world is starting to come to its senses...

How do you guys feel about tournament arcs? Stories where the heroes have to fight their way through a structured, ongoing tournament have always been a guilty pleasure for me. I don't know why, since they usually bring the plot to a dead stop for who knows how many chapters/episodes and they...

I don't think anything can ruin the flow of a good writing session like when you have a sentence perfectly planned out in your head, and then just as you're typing it, your brain decides to yoink one of the words away. You stop. You know exactly what you want to say, but for some reason the word...

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From what I understand about progression fantasy, it's a story where the main character gets stronger throughout the course of the book. But doesn't that sum up, like, 90% of fantasy stories at the very least? Harry Potter learns new spells and gets better at magic throughout the series, but...

Me was am the good write for two months. Much much writing with the lots words and happy brain juice. Now brain does the snail and angry time when the clicky board and fingers no writing does. All words am butt. Halp? What do.

I'm making notes for a future story, where I've got the main character going around collecting people into his party, and it suddenly occurred to me that all the party members he's picking up are women. He's only going to have a romantic relationship with one of them, but does that still count...

I won't ask which you like more since the answer will inevitably be "Either, as long as they're well written," so instead I'll ask this: if all you knew was that one book had a human main character and the other had a nonhuman one, which would you immediately be more inclined to check out?

Do you like the stories you write to be simple and straightforward, or sprawling and complex? Whenever I start a new story, I always trick myself into thinking it's going to be some kind of Tolkien, Jordan, Sanderson-esque colossus with a massive world, multiple fully fleshed out cultures, and...

The main character for my litrpg WIP is a Forge Knight, meaning that he has the power to collect raw materials and turn them into weapons, armor, and gadgets. The class comes with some crafting blueprints already unlocked, but he also has access to a magic workshop inside his mind where he can...

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I've never been interested in harem stories, but I've heard people call The Celestine Chronicles "a harem story done right" so I decided to check it out. Right off the bat, I was put off when the main character Terry was a physically fit, good looking, and confident man. Then it occured to me...