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1. It's the reader that makes it hard, or more specifically the differences between readers. Pace can be considered as something objective, but that is irrelevant to the readers, who may experience the same pace differently and have different feedback about the story. It can be considered in...

One topic that I've seen brought up in some stories is an entity that is obligated to kill or destroy for some reason, and keeps maintaining and saving the world as its obligation will be impossible to fulfill if the world is destroyed. Another thing that is worth considering is that something...

1&2. The way I see it, a character-driven story is one where the course of the story is determined by character goals and motivations, while a plot-driven story's course is dictated by vague momentum, a sort of direction that is not decided by individual people but an average, or a sum of those...

I prefer another answer here. The internet has made people do a lot of good and bad things that cannot be easily compared. If I had to, I would say it's overall indirectly caused more good than harm, but depending what angle we take, it's very easy to argue it has caused much more harm than good.

I have had a lot of people tell me that I should use this - I know this under the "pause" name because that's kinda what it does but that my be a quirk of my native language - to do exactly this kind of insertions, but I never did figure out how to write them universally without them being a...

Suddenly a Succubus. Not quite hidden gem since it's above average in popularity for SH, but it's not particularly popular. I don't read enough smut to know more, but this one is amazing (largely because it would be great if all smut was cut out, but the smut is good too).

Chapter length longer than a 1000 words. Past that, I prefer longer chapter, but I've learned not to expect. I want the story to complete, but I've also learned not to expect that. The length does not matter much, and I similarly prefer long stories (like 100000+ words minimum) but shorter...

Context, to me, is the broad idea of the story. Some do tell the entire narrative in narrow confines and ignore or purposefully omit the wider picture, but in general it is important to give the reader some vague idea about the world the story is placed in. This should be done inversely...

Are you interested specifically in reincarnation, or other themes like transformation as well? For the first, one fairly good story I know is Mother of Midnight (mind the tags), but the vast majority I know in this vein do not involve reincarnation.

I believe this is because good human-made covers have a certain symbolism and purpose, or are spontaneous. There's a kind of idea behind art, emphasis on something that is supposed to attract attention within a narrow style. This may be a little muddled with low-quality covers though. AI...

I am unsure why you want to be so specific. I think it would be fine as is. You can achieve some of this by arranging the paragraph differently, for example something like: Past that, I think the punctuation shows the intent well enough.

On principle, I have nothing against such characters in a story. I have myself written a couple. I do agree though that a lot of stories portray them badly, either in an exaggerated manner or unrealistically in other ways. This is the same for virtually any other archetype though - be it saints...

Ideally, you would do that circumstantially. If the reader has an image of the character defined well enough, they should be able to anticipate their manner of speech to a degree, especially with a clear sentence and situation, like the character's emotions. Other than that, action tags is...

Outside special cases, I just use cursive. I have come to associate bold text with some kind of empowered speech, for example magically enhanced, and don't generally use it for regular emphasis.

To me, there is a simple answer to any of those questions. Make an interesting enough premise to attract me, a good enough story to keep me reading, and I'll happily read virtually anything I don't dislike. If you exclude isekai, harem, and gender gender, you'll cut out a significant portion of...

1. Whar? I've heard the exact opposite? 2. For serious writing, yea. 3. I believe this is because it is mostly used for routines and repeated actions, rather than singular actions? For example "I would wake up before dawn every day." I may be wrong about that. 4. No comment. The little naughty...

Size and texture contribute to the taste of food just as much as spices.

Two ways. One, scarcity. If something is good, more people want it. If it's scarce, few people that want it are able to get it. That scarcity can be achieved in uncountable different ways, like lack of skilled craftsmen, lack of materials, high rate of destruction / low rate of recovery...