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Be consistent in posting regularly, but post at a different time every day. This way, you cover as many timezones as possible. Some people say you should post for the time zone where most readers are online -- I disagree. If you're posting for the English, then any English reader who's seen you...

You can just quote your favourite line and say "this made me laugh" or "this character is so stupid I love him" or whatever response it evokes in you. It's easy and authors love this kind of feedback because it's extremely valuable in telling us what sorts of lines are hitting the best.

We bought chickens! They're arriving tomorrow.

Oh my god you're right. I... don't know what to do with this information...

Yes and it WON'T SHUT UP. I'm aphantasiac and very alexithymic, meaning 90% of the time, the only thoughts of mine that I know about are what my inner voice is saying. If it's not saying it, there's a good chance I don't even know I'm processing or experiencing it.

This is true, but even this depends on the story, genre, tone and length. For example, the book series Animorphs was fantastic with characterisation and very immersive, but every book would start with a couple of pages where the characters meet up and the POV character straightup tells us who's...

I don't like the rule because people keep parrotting it without knowing what it actually means. It's good general advice if your story needs some life in it, *if* you know what "showing" and "telling" actually is. I've met so many critics who can't actually tell the difference between those...

This happens to sailing crews or military units occasionally. They generally just band together and try to survive. Sometimes they succeed and sometimes they don't. Of course, soldiers and sailors are trained to work together under a predefined leadership, and expect to do so for a long period...

Having a new idea is incredibly easy. People have new ideas all the time. Turning the idea into a decent story, however...

You're writing fic on your phone??? YOU MUST HAVE THE THUMBS OF A GOD.

I consider you all to be genderless blobs in the void. But in my experience, people with anime girl pfps are much more likely to be male.

I don't wait for comments. I'm just notified when they happen.

I write both original fic and fanfiction. They take different skillsets but one isn't harder or easier than the other and they're both fun to write. I started with original fic but branched into fanfiction awhile ago, maybe about 7 or 8 years ago? It is a lot easier to get readers for fanfic...

Average views per chapter are always going to drop. That's perfectly logical. Come people are going to abandon any story, and nobody's ging to start a story at chapter 30, so chapter 1 will always have more views than chapter 30. It doesn't discourage me because I've never looked at the stat...

Have you read KA Applegate's Everworld? A bunch of teenagers get isekaied to a medieval-ish fantasy world that the Earth gods created after abandoning Earth (they found it too boring, if memory serves). It was all pretty stable, everyone essentially recreating little versions of the...

Anything a man can do to a woman, a woman can do to a man. In general, men are more likely to abuse people through force/fear/intimidation (because they tend to be bigger/stronger on average and have cultural advantages to intimidation) and women are more likely to abuse people through fake...

I don't measure by day. I've been writing continually for years and expect to keep doing that for many more, so I absolutely cannot afford to risk burnout. Measuring by the day increases stress and guilt on non-writing days and leads to paralysis. I measure my word goals by the month -- minimum...

If I would pay money for it and not regret the purchase, it's 5 stars.

The difference between a utopia and a dystopia is what you're trying to say. Are you crafting the society to be an exaggerated version of something bad in our society or future? It's a dystopia. Are you crafting it to be an aspirational projection of something good? Then it's a utopia. The...