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Hmm, I'm not sure that I'm trying to say anything with my story. What I do end up saying with it is another matter. What I've ended up writing (as far as I can tell) is a story about found family, interpersonal relationships, and prejudice, both justified and unjustified, with a solid helping...

Got one of these just yesterday. They claimed to love my story, which raised an eyebrow when I looked at their profile and saw it was made literally a day ago. Still, they could've made the account to tell me they liked the story, so I decided to humor them, even gave them my discord (an alt...

To me, it's performing an action which would cause a normal human's body to break down. Lifting something so heavy it rips your muscles apart (or should), shrugging off a hit that really ought to liquify your internal organs, reacting near instantly (we're talking less than ten milliseconds)...

CHYOA Pros: has branching chapter trees allowing for variants of chapters or 'split-offs' from the main story, also functionality for smooth merging again, and an optional game mode feature where choosing different chapters affects stats which can enable or disable later chapters (haven't played...

Ah, you're correct. My bad, mixed up the terms. I've seen a surprising amount of either self-insert or audience surrogate protagonists even in the west, but then I also mostly read webnovels these days. Published books cost money. :blob_blank:

This is an interesting question to me because I'm currently writing a 'reincarnated as a monster' story. I think I agree that an interesting world is necessary, but even more important is to have the characters be interesting (in which it's exactly like every other story ever). My case is a...

I do to the point it's almost a requirement, but I don't really do 'mood' music. I just slap on an instrumental (or mostly instrumental) track to help grease the wheels of my brain. What the music is doesn't matter all that much. :blobsip:

That bit before I get into flow state when every sentence feels like a monumental effort to come up with. Once in flow state, my fingers can't keep up, but till then it can be a pain in the neck.

She's not, though I have swapped perspective to her on occasion, and she does blur the line a little between primary and secondary character. The first of those two new attempts feels almost cookie cutter to me, similar in a lot of ways to a lot of other synopses I've seen, but then I don't...

Wrote two new possible synopses. I'm not very good at summarization in general, and this is made painfully apparent when I try to write a synopsis that's both a good hook and is concise. This is perhaps exacerbated by the fact that most of the core concepts of my story aren't anything no one's...

Fair enough. :blobsip: I'll keep trying to think of a better title. Finding good titles/names/etc. can be challenging for me for some reason. That's also fair. The smut tag scaring you away (so to speak) works in everyone's favor since I certainly don't skimp on the smut and therefore I only...

Personally I don't pay much attention to pageviews, chapter views and favorites are better ways of tracking what's actually going on, along with reader counts, of course. A glance at your story stats page shows that recently a lot of people opened your first chapter but didn't read further...

That's a good synopsis, but it's not the story I've been telling. :blob_happy: At least thus far, it's much more about the interpersonal relationships than the big picture conflict. Everything I've said in either version of the 'new' synopsis was implied if not outright detailed in the first two...

I can certainly trim it down. This is precisely why I asked for feedback, as I would probably never have noticed on my own. :blobsip: Trimmed it down some. What do you feel about this?

Just from a glance, I'd say that that chapter belongs in the Glossary, not your story. Most people will only care about the world insofar as it affects the characters, so only bringing up world elements as they become relevant to the characters would be the wisest course of action in my opinion...

A good point. Now the only question is where to put it, since the first time 'he' is said, he's still not technically Fenrir. Edit: I changed the synopsis a bit to include the name in a way I think flows fairly well. What do you think of it now? Better?

His name is Fenrir, but he doesn't choose it until the end of the first (technically, second) chapter. What his name on Earth was is never mentioned. I hesitated over whether to put it in the synopsis or not, but I suppose it's not giving away anything of consequence.

So when I began posting my story here it was the first time I needed a synopsis for it, since on CHYOA it's only a branch of another story, albeit one that's meant to be a springboard for individual branches. I banged my synopsis out with only a cursory idea of what it really needed, and I've...

I cottoned onto that immediately, but it would be nice if rather than having to click on each link or count the comments versus notifs, I could just see that this comment is on that chapter and this one on another. Not a huge deal, just a small quality of life change. I don't know much about...

As it says in the title. It would be nice to see which chapter was commented on when getting a comment notification. Not a big deal, but it would make it a little more streamlined than having to open multiple tabs (which often but not always end up being the same chapter anyway) and then...