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    Why do you want to live a long life if you are going to be financially poor?

    Let's be honest, economical success is nothing but an arbitrary concept stemming from the fact that we believe some people have more than others, based on the rules of society. Now if I were to make an educated guess, this whole concept may at most work for another fifty years. We got robots...
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    Where do you save your outlines, plans, plots, etc.? + a small apology

    I write on an old tablet and copy via USB on my PC. This way, I have it on tablet, USB, and PC. Every few months, I also copy on a second USB, and in addition, I have two folders I switch the saves, as I once had the issue that my text-doc was corrupted and I overcopied with it even my good...
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    Powerscaling: Tell me about the most powerful character in all your novel/s

    My strongest protagonist would be Iori Nomia, from my story Eldritch. She had the inherent ability of someone who travels in her dreams to eldritch planes, which usually simply ended with her dream avatar perishing and her waking up. Yet then she got to a particularly bad one, merged with a lake...
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    WTF Moments in Games

    I guess the closest I got in relevance to the quest would be Civ 6, where I was doing decently well, but for some reason, in the last time I found the last indio village in the last time. Those ancient people shared with me their knowledge, passed down by vocal transmission. This is how I came...
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    Thoughts about Author inserts

    Oh wow, I seriously didn't consider myself as such. Thanks, I guess. Just saying, regarding my self-insert, just look at the last line in the latest chapter of Eldritch and tell me I worry over nothing... Please? But really, I'm nothing special, just a completely average writer. ->Proceeds...
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    Thoughts about Author inserts

    I sometimes fear my characters in "Eldritch" inserted me into their story. The main issue is, I still don't know the conclusion, since as of yet nothing happened. On a slightly unrelated note, I'd say all of my characters base on a trait of mine that I can understand. I simply use that feature...
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    How many chapters at launch are enough?

    I usually do five. At least three to get started. Five to the end of the day would be good, and afterward, three to five more in daily releases, to show that you keep pushing out and aren't abandoning the work soon. Make it clear to communicate that you have a schedule. Supposedly most readers...
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    Do you use swears in your fantasy?

    When they come, they come. Usually only a WTF. Yet often weakened to What the heck/frick. Frickin' hell! It depends on whether the character is someone who would be swearing. Like the dockworker wouldn't really stop himself from any hard wrods.
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    Writing style...

    I often hear my style is unusual, but I can write well like this and am fine with my current audience.
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    What is Your Favorite Novel of All Time?

    Core .001, but it's unfortunately already for 5 1/2 years on hiatus. But I could never forget it. Regarding ongoing novels: A Practical Guide to Sorcery is quite well-made.
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    Do you monetize your writing ?

    I'd like to, but am too introverted and reserved to actually go through with setting up a website or Patreon. Just feels like an endlessly intimidating and insurmountable hurdle to make it happen.
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    Upsetting stories where evil wins

    I see where you're coming from. Yet even if I try to understand that it's supposed to be art, if the absolute only intention of the piece is to make someone experience disgust, then I can't quite see them as a person I'd agree with. I can't even see them as someone likable. If they truly only...
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    Upsetting stories where evil wins

    Ehm, I mean after the cut off fingers they get killed by getting their throat cut through. It's not actually about being who they want to be if this was only to kill them for good in my opinion. It seriously was only to add to the suffering before the end.
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    Upsetting stories where evil wins

    Still, I find there's a difference between tragedy like Romeo and Juliet and simply torturing likable people to death. The one has a certain artistic sense, there's reasoning and depth to suffering and consequences of action. On the contrary, the story I was referring to only was the MC being...
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    Introducing an annoying character (that I like)

    Nah, I'm not the author of this. My story is just called Eldritch: https://www.scribblehub.com/series/243676/eldritch/ Yet I think it does decently well.
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    Upsetting stories where evil wins

    This might be more of a rant than anything else, but I'd like to talk about reading experiences that truly riled me up (and not in a good way). In both cases, it's simply about the fact that the author made the bad guy without redeemable qualities win. The first traumatized me. Might be said a...
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    Can you see my sig?

    I'm jealous! I too want to add my books as signs, but am too stupid to work it out!
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    Introducing an annoying character (that I like)

    I guess that's mostly subjective, but I can tell that the new character is actually so annoying to reach her goal that they non-violently get my pazifist MC to lash out and start a fight. Also, the higher up of the cosmic agent is going to come down and settlè this. At this point, my "power...
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    Introducing an annoying character (that I like)

    Yeah, a bit of an issue, I'd like to discuss. Well, essentially I'm mostly complaining about my dilemma. I'm going to introduce a character in my long time story (over 150 chapters, doing well) that I personally quite like. Yet I fear there might be a bit of backlash. The raw chapters are...
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    Your opinion about plagiarists/scrappers, sites?

    I find scanlations to be a bit of a grey zone. Might apply mostly to mangas, but if there certainly isn't any form of english material to a purely japanese story, for example, then I don't find that anyone really gets harmed. It's said that Japanese publishers even use those to gauge the...
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