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Some of my favourite tropes to make fun of is things like all JRPG groups tend to be between 14 and 17 year old when they save the world. So if a women reaches 18 or something, and has yet to have saved the world? That's when she realises it's too late for her to be the love interest. All of...

You can handle it in any way that fits your story best. You could open Book 1 by outright promising multiverse shenanigans but only show the first glimpse of it in Book 2. You could sprinkle hints throughout book1, foreshadowing the multi-dimensional elements without explicitly naming them...

Take months and months to build up your setting/world bible, establish heroes, gods, wars, idioms belonging to this world. Then, simply sprinkle the right expressions in your story as your characters experience the world, behaving as if the expression's meaning was universally understood. Make...

Shirtaloon was mentioned in this thread, and I find his HWFWM story fun, but: - he moved away from the stats, numbers, crunch and play-by-play. His most recent writing feels like regular fantasy to me. - his custom system, that people love, is clearly something cool he dreamed up in his head...

ESL here. I have been reading for decades. A lot of it, stories like you can find on ScribbleHub. If you want to improve, I think you should read really good writing (Ursula Le Guin for instance), but you should also read a ton of bad writing. Whenever you read something very amateur, and you...

I would hang out with all four of my MCs, absolutely. They all reflect some parts of me, so I think we'd connect easily.

I think anyone's writing can be as artistic or as technical as they want it to be. And it can be other things, too. I also think writing to the market is closer to a science than art. As for writing purely artistically, with no structure, science or point behind it? It's going to be hard for...

I learned how all the stories I write about orbit the same core concept: shaking yourself free of how other see or perceive you, and reclamation. Poems? Short stories? Novels? D&D characters? My indie JRPG? All boil down to the same struggle, the same lesson. I am a one-trick pony, apparently.

With winter finally going away in the PNW, I also started going on walks again recently. My legs do not approve, but my brain does.

Have you messaged any of the authors? Posted comments and reviews of the stories? I am probably not the only author who enjoys interacting with their readers, and it can be a huge boon to motivation to know someone cares and reads your stuff.

Given they run off with my story all the time, I think they only have themselves to blame for their misfortunes.

All five of my four novels in my series not only start with someone waking up, but each of my characters waking up. I basically break that rule 80 times in a single story. Safe to say, I don’t put much stock in that rule.

1. Me? I don't really see it. I am blunt, often by myself, I don't generally reach out to friends and family. People might like me for things like my insight or blunt honesty, but I was educated to see those as worthless or worse. 2. I mean, sure. I'll hold a door open for a stranger, I'll treat...

A story doesn't need a villain, a disaster or any external threat. It could be 100% internal and still be riveting. Sure, you could write the story of someone who fights for their father's approval, which is external, and could make the father the villain. But you could make a story about...

My villains are good people working off bad assumptions and flawed data. They are the worst kind of villains. (In the sense that they are great villains, and hard to hate) Because they're not delusional, insane or psychotic. They are convinced they're doing the right thing, and they have data...

Even if you never ever bring it up. If you have a succubus, just there, being a party member, and nobody takes issues about that? You're making a statement, whether you set out do so or not. In the imaginary case above it could be as simple as: "See? She is in the party, nobody takes issue...

I agree with the above revisions.

Not all bad drafts are future masterpieces, but all bad drafts have salvageable good ideas in them. Playing bad games, watching B movies, reading amateur writing will teach you to find the diamond in the rough. Write bad first. Find the gold. Polish that, drop the rest. Repeat.

I would choose the one that helps you tell the story you want to get out? Don't look at them being human or demi-human at face value. Think of what it means. Are you speaking of racism and profiling of minorities? Racism? Sexual Identity or Preferences? The more you make your demi-human...

Write it bad first. Much easier to turn bad into good than it is to turn nothingness into anything.