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I can definitely concur with Nr. 2. For me, it helps to see my characters as beings whose stories I define. For my writing, especially my first story, I have less of a strict outline, with no set end, but instead, I'm treating the whole thing like some kind of RPG where I decide everything...

You also notice it's wish fulfillment if the story itself isn't all that creative. Like, the MC never gets into real trouble, stays always above problems, and can't fail. An author on the wish-fulfillment trip won't allow for his precious self-insert to live through hard times. That would ruin...

By now we're at a point where both extremes don't really leave space for a middle ground. People even called for a boycott of Baldurs Gate 3 because it was too diverse. The term "woke" itself is barely defined. Is a black woman as MC making a woke game? Is it forced politics that leaves barely...

High-elves. Though, there's this rather good manga "the embodyment of sin" in which it's goblins.

There would be 3 in my case. "Overlord", that got me into light novels, "So I'm a Spider So What?" that showed me that kind of adventure perspective exists. Yet then I got Core.001 on this site and it became my absolute favorite. Never again was I so compelled by a story. Sadly, it then went on...

I think it depends on the general circumstances. For example, modern armies have the issue that every idiot with a gun can do huge damage. Guerilla warfare is in modern times much more dangerous. A trained soldier in a sword and shield world would certainly fare far better, as they have the...

The ways to answer that, if you do, would be private message, their profile page, or simply add it to your next comment reply to them below your chapter, if they tend to comment.

I'd like to know as well. I'm soon going tofinish up a story, but want to post a number of epilogues afterwards. Is this okay?

It's not a favorite (who exactly likes stuff that makes them angsty?), but what makes me most apprehensive would be slavery without hope to escape. A collar that can't be taken off, a contract that bids the soul, worst is if it directly forces actions without choice. Those things make me really...

Most of my stories actually play in the same world. So while I don't have crossovers yet, they'll eventually come and yet there are references. Though, as it's its own named fantasy world there's not much of a chance for crossovers with other franchises to happen. On the other hand, I already...

Just saying, I find it quite jarring if there's too great of a wall between tiers. To stay engaging there should be an option to win through any means necessary. Cultivation novels tend to arbitrarily make up things so a higher tier can't be felled. Stuff like a special sense that prevents...

Oh my god, I got into the list! (It's Eldritch) Though, my personal favorite is Slime Girl, yet that one might be a bit hard to get into. I personally can absolutely recommend A Practical Guide to Sorcery. Never let me down that series.

My first memories are about Age of Empires 2, yet I guess one I played too.

Me too and that while I think I'm doing decently well. Is there some kind of threshold to catch anyone's attention? Though, I guess there was once something when I started, yet I took one look at the profile and saw it was created seconds before the post. I may be naive, but didn't reach that...

On the other side, if we take from fantasy races the aspects that define them, how are they still the species we're speaking about? Are elves by now seriously only people with pointy ears? If a vampire does not have to suck blood, has a mirror image, can endure the sun, then how are they still...

Personally, I found that especially in movies I developed a particular distaste for the common arc of suspense. By now it's just so completely foreseeable. Set up - rising stakes - breakdown - downtime - finale Or in other words, the situation gets introduced, the protagonist gets into some...

Might not be quite the question, but on this line of thought I recently find that the Isekai trend is going to be replaced by original fantasy again. Franchises like Frieren making the start to this development. Though if I have to guess I'd say apocalypse fantasy stories could be the next big...

I like well-done transformation stories. Those that depict the transformation, keep track of the emotional state of the protagonist who isn't happy or completely accepting of that change. Then the story would focus on integrating in their former society. They would face challenges. Maybe have to...

Personally, I find that having a lot of comments works. Usually two days (seems like a processing period) after I had a relevant increase in traffic, I got into trending. Of course, I can't tell how true that is, but I had for example a longer discussion between two of my readers that increased...

What certainly does help is if you get someone to do a shout-out-swap with you. If you find someone with a decent reader base, all their readers will be exposed to it. After all, visibility is still the strongest factor to popularity. If you can find a way to have your story show up anywhere, go...