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Transformation/monster reincarnation stories! Many do them poorly, in my opinion. Especially, if the setup turns their mentality just into what they transformed. They make the new body align with their minds, often turning into straight-up psychopaths. It's hardly interesting if the result is...

Regarding cultivation, I think the biggest issue is invincibility. The main trope, which I also despise most, is that it shows a quite severe Chinese mentality of thinking in tiers. As if there's an impossibility to even measure up to someone above you. I saw several examples of cultivation...

2 and 4 look bad. 2 is overlighted, and 4 got those vacant eyes with the demon girl. 1 looks better than the others, but the demon got a nice, supportive vibe on it. More like the friendly childhood next door, who just happens to look like she came from a Halloween party, not a genuine demonic...

Not sure how well it qualifies, but my story Slime Girl got a pretty obsessive second MC, who transforms the first MC into a slime and quite severely clings to her. Though, quite often the first MC can get her to make concessions.

My story Eldritch got something like that. Although, while she is quite OP, MC is also quite the mental wreck about having turned into a tentacle monster. So she tries to stay incognito and is usually easily pressured, because she got a rather timid personality.

I can recommend "Bocchi the Rock" for insight into actual social anxiety. Yes, it's to a degree displayed over the top, but the actual reasoning, inhibitions, social issues are pretty accurate. Stuff like not being able to enter a place, because the feeling of what might happen if you do that...

Shari, a medieval village daughter of a herbalist, gets abducted by Liqu, a mutated slime, and transformed into one, obsessed Liqu won't leave her alone, Shari wants to survive/not get killed on sight, while still existing in civilization, fantasy world, with rather basic elemental magic (mages...

I got blocked on RoyalRoad by an author because of commenting. I absolutely swear, I didn't say anything too harsh. I only said I didn't fully buy a scene, where two muggers are directly about to kill a girl by slicing her throat, right next to the main street, after she struggles a bit with...

Shari has the fascinating ability to jinx herself to a degree that it borders propability manipulation. Also, she blames the world (aka me) like a sentient entity to screw things up for her.

The old Bambi quote. If I got nothing good to say, I rather shouldn't say anything. I'm extremely nitpicky about stories. Small issues are pretty grating for me. This may also apply to novels I like. At the same time, I know how much effort lies in making a story. I don't want to drag down the...

As conceited this may sound, I look at times if my first story got in any way closer to becone Nr.1 in views on any of its many tags. Right now, only "medieval" seems like a very distant, possibly achievable dream. It's frustrating in the regard that two of my other stories got to be rank one...

Seems like I'm too late. Although my Slime Girl saga starts with disturbing body horror into a somewhat cute relationship between the protagonists. (Basically, I could Bingo all your genre mentions) Well, you asked attention-starved author if you could read anything they'd recommend. The...

On a less serious, and more isolated note, I prefer writing on my tablet. And I often do so late at night, when it's quiet, and I can let my thoughts drift. However, at a certain time, my body literally gives out on me. When I notice, I'm getting really tired, like when my eyes start to drop...

To me, it usually helps to try take some distance and really look at a dialogue and ask oneself: "Do human people really talk like this to each other (or possible other species for that matter)?" A talk usually has banter, yet also a certain playfulness, or heaviness if it's a serious one...

A backlog is absolute standard. Don't write without one. Even if you wing your story, once it's out, you can't take it back. You need at least twenty chapters advance so you can react if you realize something doesn't work, and you quickly need to adjust details several chapters prior.

I have a deep-seated aversion to "false" protagonists. Anyone familiar with the anime "Plunderer"? That one featured a girl as "protagonist, even going so far as making the synopsis about her. Turns out, she was only the one observing the real MC. The Plunderer. Her whole thing was either being...

It's interesting that in most media, particularly movies, it's quite the opposite. I mean, how often gets the author of the plot get truly credited, but the big name on the film is the director? Yes, the director compositions the movie, just like a ghostwriter would, but the one creating the...

Oh, right, I almost forgot that one. To me, it's fine if the MC at the start gets some crazy ability. Like in an apocalypse story, they awaken something really special they can make use of. Because then it's the premise of the story. That one-in-a-million chance the story is about. If it turns...

Usually, I stop a novel if I find too great faults with characterisation, or if something happens that quite severely throws off what the story was about. The first makes me stop being interested in a character if they can't even be one. They do things I don't think sane people do, they behave...

Might not be quite that kind of thing, but the story "Collective Thinking" on RoyalRoad is pretty weird, but even more confusing. It's about some kind of institute for Psychics. Yet it's the really weird form of psychic abilities. More the SCP variant, where you look at something and next it's...