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What is this, 2019? Get with the times and do like with rule 1. Have an AI generate the title for you.

Giving you their firstborn child? In this economy? Kids cost too much for me to be raising other people's.

Congrats!

Yoshikage Kira from Jojo's is a solid pick for me. He is not justifiable at all. Nobody says "maybe hes actually the good guy when u thnk abt it...." unless they're cracking wise. But the story also goes into a surprising amount of depth into his very thought processes and how much he's willing...

Honestly, it sounds like the problem is too many humans. Just write them out and have it be a setting with only monster girls/boys, then you don't have to worry about any monster-human ratios.

My current MC in VoraCity is finally starting to come to terms with her individual power being far greater than anyone she's met si far, but at the same time, she's just one person in an era where populations were ballooning by the tens of millions every year. At this time, there's nothing she...

I was taught to never start a paragraph with a non-dialogue sentence and then add dialogue midway through. As in: M.C. punched the wall. "Damn it!" You would always have to start a new line for the next piece of dialogue then. But if you start a paragraph with dialogue, then some action...

I've also seen it work when it comes to close friends who are basically making related stories in the same setting, but it doesn't quite work with strangers unless you're very lucky or very flexible with each other. In my own collaborative works, it tended to be analogous to someone writing the...

Xaelas are a disease unto this world. I don't want to be cured.

The two main qualities are consistency and sensibility. Consistency just means that the character you're seeing play out in the story matches the way the story focuses on them. For example, if your character is a scumbag who is always picking fights, don't try to suddenly drop sympathy cards all...

90% of AI Detectors are in themselves AI. 10% of AI Detectors just generate random numbers on the fly. They're the more accurate ones.

The best feedback I ever received was that a dumb joke I slipped into the narration snapped the reader out of the trance he was in while reading. I didn't even intend it to be that captivating, but after hearing how I fumbled it, I suddenly felt like I did something wrong and shouldn't let it...

I must have started writing somewhere around 2012. I had the pleasure of experiencing an 85mph car flip on the median of a highway, and I suddenly found I had a lot of free time and no car to actually go out and do much (it was a 100% car dependent place). I don't know what my first story was...

I do it differently for every book. I used to forego chapter titles altogether, but I found that isn't good for web novels. For my current one, I have every chapter be a new word that starts with "S" and ends with "ing". I plan to change it once a new arc starts, but it's been a fun way to get...

Happy New Year! :blob_cookie:

My stories have always been unique. I always start with the idea of a setting and what major themes take place in it as the crux of the novel before ever considering genre tags or tropes. It makes things less marketable and accessible, but I don't mind that. Back in the day when I did more...

That sounds like what would happen if you force a story to be a slow burn. My current story on SH took twelve chapters before the protag even had a name, but I like to think none of the time up til then was wasted. Just more condensed, to put it politely. I think the appeal of slow burns is...

Gin is a magic potion that turns thoughts into words. Or into a mess to clean up if you drink too much of it.

I haven't written self inserts since I was a kid. I treat characters now like if the setting I'm writing has a history, and I'm giving a colorful retelling of it. Though I usually end up focusing more on the psychology of characters than a biography actually would. A lot of times, rather than...

There's nothing that stands out as egregious. Just go and write it out and see how it flows when you do. Worst case scenario, you get a learning experience of how not to do it next time.