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I've never done self-inserts or inserts of anyone I know; that would require me to understand people a lot better than I do. It's easier to invent fictional characters from scratch. I do tend to use them to rant about things that people are bored of hearing me rant about though. This one time I...

They'd auction service contracts to break into museums and get each others' ancient letters and favourite jewellery back.

Sure, there you go.

It depends entirely on what the stakes are in the first place.

My series has its own website and discord. I publish primarily there, and I've started releasing on sites like Scribblehub to expand readership. I started on my own website, I didn't start on Scribblehub. So that might be a bit different to the scenario you're looking for.

Kayden, the main character in The Cursed Heart, is significantly weaker than most of the rest of the cast. Nobody really makes a thing of this; he's just a fairly average guy. If you're willing to branch into published novels, you might want to look into the How To Train Your Dragon series...

Psychopaths are boring. Egotists are also boring. It's possible to write an interesting psychopathic character, but when someone does, their psychopathy is the least interesting thing about them. "Edgy", "evil" or "dangerous" romance has its place in the horror/thriller genres as a way to create...

Rating other people's work, I give a 3 for a really bad book, 4-4.5 for average, 5 if it impresses me. (That is, 4-4.5 for "average free entertainment" -- if I don't think I wasted my time reading it, I'll rate it like this. Even if it's got spelling errors or some characters or plots I don't...

I've never given a 1 star rating, because any book that might be deserving of 1 star, I usually don't read far enough into to rate. (I don't rate a story I've only read one or two chapters of, I don't consider myself informed enough to rate at that point.) I'd just close it and read something...

High school me was an insufferable nerd who wouldn't shut up about evolutionary biology, is there a category for that?

Spite. My motivation is almost entirely spite.

Humans can survive a surprisingly long time on things like jerky. We've been doing it for almost as long as we've been humans. If it's for a month or two, there's no problems; any longer than that and you have to be careful about what kinds of things you're eating (you need organ meats if you...

Any advice I give about editing, I did not take. I am the world's laziest editor. A skim for typos is about the most I usually do.

Are you crowdsourcing every aspect of your story? Is this an experimental crowdsourced writing project? (Because honestly that sounds like it would be pretty cool.)

Nonsense. You can cut down the manufacturing and maintenance costs severely and not affect the sales costs. Da Beers have been doing it for decades. All that extra money goes into your pocket instead of buying immunosuppresants and sinking into losses when they die too early. I take offense to...

THEY COULD BE THOUGH. IF YOU MADE THEM PROPERLY.

The story's about someone's cursed heart. Calling it The Cursed Heart seemed logical at the time. ?‍♂️

Overusing ellipses or m-dashes in this way is a problem that a lot of fanfic writers have (since this is acceptable, or even standard, grammar in many types of fanfic). Do you come from a fanfic background? I find that I'm constantly missing commas in my sentences, making them difficult to...

On a site like this, the main purpose of your title is for someone to see it on the main page or their search results, think 'wtf? I have to see what that's about,' and click on it. So don't do what I did and pick the most generic title in the entire world. Just pick something that describes the...

It would give the impression that the story is complete, which is even less fair to readers than marking a hiatus. It's not a solution. It's even worse, and an author absolutely shouldn't do it. The 'completed' tag is absolutely not a substitute for a 'discontinued' tag.