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I use pre-AI generation (that is, I use a search engine). Then I use GIMP to fit everything to the dimensions I need (I also publish Amazon KDP), and the text fonts I want.

Yay, by sheer coincidence, the story I'm writing happens to be a superhero novel.

Half of what I write is symbolism. The other half is worldbuilding/political ranting (sometimes both in the same sentence). Alot of religion heavy metaphors. My inspiration in anime was X, which had freaking people crossing pools of blood while petals fell.

Better yet, make a bad cliffhanger that leaves the audience like "Wtf? That's terrible!"

Correction, it was 22 pages. I'd like to clarify that chapter didn't feel long, because it involved multiple POVs, multiple events, but the same overall theme. If a chapter feels long, chop it up. If it doesn't, there are probably breaks that a normal reader using a bookmark can deal with. That...

I think the longest chapter I've written was 40 pages long. It had people doing a series of bounty hunts, so there was no breaking it up due to similar theme. Lately, I write shorter chapters on average. Closer to 4-6 pages. It's the number of chapters that usually stays consistent. Typically...

But you're referring to names of things. Sounds like you meant capitalizing words. Italicizing words tends to be for emphasis when bold is no good or when addressing character thoughts. Capitalizing is used sometimes for names of spells. Capitalizing: I took a Gate to get to Alexandria...

I disagree. I wind up checking my views because I'm paging through chapters trying to find the one that needs edits. It makes it very difficult to gauge foot traffic when it says something like 6 views, and I later realize 5 of those are me.

Actually, demon means "spirit". It's the same concept as a djinn. It was only centuries post-Christianity that the idea of demon became exclusively associated with evil. But beyond monotheism, there was a very big reason why Baal and Moloch were considered false gods. These were often blood...

There, I finally logged in. As you can see, I premade a big picture so it recognizes it as a wraparound picture. To the best of my knowledge, the only requirement for CoverCreator to do this is for the picture to be wider than it is tall. If you have a tall picture, you'll tend to get front...

They do sometimes have an option that shows very little front and back framing. If you can't find it, here's what you do. Restart the CoverCreator after switching the cover art to a wraparound picture (there's one that I like with a girl and a boy kinda facing each other). Once you have that...

I'm looking at your cover, and while it does have an anime aesthetic, I'm actually reminded of Record of Lodoss War. You're fine. Pfft, and person above me seems to use KDP's Cover Creator.

As with page numbering (I noticed that article too), you can talk to me. I've published about 14 books on KDP, so I've gone through all the crap. Especially when I found that KDP accepts (most) foreign language so long as it doesn't create missing words, but found that Amazon universally hates...

Here, I know how to fit a much larger book into those contraints. Take a look at Oracle of Tao on Amazon (I'm not just pimping my book, I'm giving advice, see?) You'll notice that I developed a number of tricks to bypass this. I've got two versions of Oracle of Tao attached. One is "normal...

Nope! Hollywood is threatened by AI scripts, because their woke films have sucked for years and a random AI can write better. But this is not true of indie novels. Even the most trashy indie novel is better than something AI-generated. I typed in basically the J.R.R. Tolkien plot but with a...

What about stories where they get their memory back later? Or where they are faking having amnesia? Or their amnesia is kinda a way to block their awesome power or something?

I don't think this is about inexperience. It think there are writing standards imposed by the writing community (i.e. college Creative Writing courses, editors, people who wear suits and ties who also tell people that books don't sell if they exceed X number of words for this or that genre)...

Yeah, the first chapter (or two) is usually where I decide whether or not to continue. I started a TotK fanfic, but then I realized the main character fit awkwardly into the story, so I ditched the concept. I ditched Town of Winter three times before the story worked. Thankfully, the sequel...

I get the others, but why amnesia stuff?

Well there was straw man, yes. I'm currently writing a superhero story and basically all the villains are allegorical, so they may veer close to straw men. But what bugs me more was the sort of "let's ignore the real troubling target, and gripe about the target that probably won't push back if...