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A kid just got pushed out of the way of a speeding truck by some random guy who died in their place. What happens next?

If you're in doubt, just balance it equally. Divide your story elements in different parts - that could be POV characters, the dramatic tension vs calm, the length of archs, whatever. Just add it together and divide in equal-ish parts. It's occasionally challenging since it might change the way...

What kind of information is it, and how much does the reader actually need to know? One approach I like to use is the 'learn about something else' method. Like, lets say all the characters know that a war happened between their nation and some other nation at some point in the past. One of them...

Anyways, on topic - I write absolute shit when I'm drunk :D Like, there's not even a freaking plot, it reads like my elementary school essay stories except when I was in elementary school I was actually creative

That's not even remotely the most bizarre part of that dream. Trust me, that dream was something else.

Reminds me of a really bizarre dream I had once. Weird stuff happened, and a character decided to eject himself from a previously flying, now very much crashing school bus with a jetpack. Except, instead of spewing flames like a traditional jetpack, it spluttered bananas from the exhaust pipes...

Yes please. I gave up on adding all the relevant tags on my mobile platform. I spent five minutes on it and still wasn't done.

Can I vote for the non-existent sauna option? Low water bill (just the shower to wash off afterwards), you get WAAAAAY cleaner than in a bath, the relaxation levels is outta the world and may I suggest a few drops of lavender oil on the sauna rocks? That's life right there, ok. The absolute best...

Everything is balance in the end. Had a teacher who used to say that eating too much is as bad as starving, exercising too hard is as bad as being sedentary. When it boils down to it, no stress at all is as bad as too much in its own ways. A tricky line to work but you're right.

Oh yes. I used to find stress motivating as well, some of my best works are done with some light stress as a motivator, but that only worked until a certain point. I agree - in the long run, stress kills creativity. I'm probably in some sort of light state of self inflicted burn-out - I can't...

Banned for banning someone for using something as wonderful as semantics.

The neet. Which is a shame, because the reason people become neets can be pretty heart-wrecking. Illness, trauma, growing up in broken households, or living in situations without any opportunities. In the fiction I read, unfortunately that's rarely explored in depth. There's a little bit of it...

"UWAAAA!" "Moooooooommyyyyy!" *Indecipherable child noises* In the middle of this crowd of scared, crying toddlers, was Arlene. Her face was still frozen with the smile that had been genuine not five seconds earlier, when she was still happily talking to her co-worker about some kid that had...