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  1. Derin_Edala

    Genderless Protagonist and Approach (The Uprise of a Nobody)

    Is your character genderless, or is the gender ambiguous? I mean, is it a case of "gender: none" (eg., someone who's agender), or "gender: [whatever the reader wants to imagine]?" Either can be written just fine but make sure you know which one you're writing. For the former, you can just ask...
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    Serious Mermaid Question

    That's such an expensive and dangerous route to go down. Immune drugs aren't perfect, wreak havok with your immune system, and don't sole the whole incompatible blood problem. Better to just make one animal.
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    What if your spouse is actually a dullahan?

    Just duct tape the head to the body. I don't see what the problem is.
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    Serious Mermaid Question

    Very unlikely. It's be very fatty meat, for the purposes of insulation. Probably like seal.
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    Add ‘Discontinued’ as story status

    A complete story and an abandoned story are very different things.
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    What is NSFW?

    I have NEVER heard "not safe for women". Why would anything be safe for men and not women? Maybe that's specific to your culture? "Not safe for work" -- that is, something that could get you in serious trouble/fired if someone noticed you looking at it at work/school/etc (usually sexual...
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    Serious Mermaid Question

    That would cause massive immune problems. The blood systems aren't even compatible.
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    Do you read your webnovels?

    I read once after updloading as a final error check, and occasionally have to go reread chapters for details that I forgot to record elsewhere. I don't read my own works for enjoyment, I've already gotten everything out of them that I can.
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    Serious Mermaid Question

    Human meat is chemically almost identical to pork, so we're already white meat. Mermaids are white meat all the way through regardless. In terms of the coherency of the being, you have two real options for mermaids -- either a mermaid is a single being, so the human and fish halves are the same...
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    NTR is not for kids

    I'm too scared to google it.
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    Writing School Life

    Dammit it looks like I accidentally switched the antagonist and the protagonist. Whelp, off to permanent obscurity and terrible ratings I go.
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    NTR is not for kids

    I'm going to regret asking what NTR is aren't I
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    Writing School Life

    He's an oversensitive lovable dumbarse but he does make a LOT of witty teen quips, does that count? This is the most American thing I've seen anyone say on this forum.
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    Writing School Life

    godDAMMIT I've got magic and nobles but I don't have any GL or smut. My story is doomed.
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    Writing School Life

    Class scenes are great for social conflict. Students trapped somewhere under strict rules of etiquette, with enemies or love interests or other people it's very tense to be around, who have to pretend to be paying attention to an authority figure and might get called out to prove they were...
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    Your Almost-Titles

    My series, Curse Words: Spellcasting for Fun and Prophet, was originally called Haven. This was changed largely because there are approximately six billion stories called Haven, rendering it ungooglable. So I named it after a common term instead, making it... still fairly ungooglable.
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    Clothing in a scene

    I only include clothing if it's helpful or relevant. No need to describe every outfit; the reader will generally assume that your character is not naked if they're not supposed to be. :P Usually, the major noticeable items the first time a character is introduced, and occasional reminders of...
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    Oh hi!

    I keep seeing other RR people here and it's like
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    How do you deal with opinionated reviewers?

    It sounds like they're just telling you that they're not your target audience. This data isn't useful to you and can be discounted. If you're getting multiple people with the same complaints, then you need to figure out whether there's something wrong with the story that needs correcting, or...
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    Writing I'm looking into writing a Transgender Story; I need advice

    If you're only learning what a deadname is *after* writing the character, then might I gently suggest that you don't have enough knowledge yet to write this character. That's one of the first things you should learn in your research. That person's reaction has nothing to do with being an...
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