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I noticed this as well on one of my recent chapters. I had set the poll to last for a month, so it doesn't matter that it will expire a couple days early, but it is a bit unintuitive if that is the intended behavior.

I have major plot points I want to hit and an ending scene which is fully fleshed out. That's it, everything else is planned on the go. I have a mental image of my story being a lot of disparate threads that slowly come together the closer I am to writing them. Or put another way, my pen...

This happened to me and I was confused until I stumbled on a thread mentioning VPNs. Apparently if you're using a VPN this will happen sometimes. The odd thing is that it fixed itself or something because I had to turn off my VPN to comment the first few times, but I don't anymore. I don't know...

Long ago, before the dawn of time, I wrote multiple chapters a day, for something like two weeks. That... didn't last. These days, I'm happy to finish one chapter a week (though admittedly my recent chapters tend to be longer than the average for this site.) Anything more than that is just a...

-Emily Dickinson "You've got places to be, and there's places I can't take you. I'm just a rusty old worn-out broken-down cowboy." -A dream I had.

In my story, I like the little references to previous isekais that I've scattered about, such as my mc coming upon a deck of playing cards that look suspiciously like the ones he was used to seeing on Earth, or the armor of a particular culture looking awfully familiar. My favorite, though, is...

You could also use the footnotes tool to show pronunciation, but as a reader, having a guide in the glossary would probably be preferable. Or you could do both; the first time the name comes up you add a footnote showing how to pronounce it, then you add it to the glossary as well in case any...

Eh, I'd say that it's best left to the author's discretion. Just because there's a new force that can break the rules doesn't mean it has to, or that it necessarily will on a large scale. I can think of at least as many reasons that the world would remain roughly similar as I can that it would...

So if I'm reading this correctly, OP's problem isn't actually the magic at all, it's that worlds with magic are still so similar to our own. Because OP believes that magic existing in a world should fundamentally change the way that world develops. If I'm wrong feel free to correct me.

In a lot of stories, magic is simply a new system or branch of science, just one made possible by the presence of some element that doesn't exist in the real world, like mana. You could argue that that means it's not magic anymore, which I suppose according to the definition you outlined in your...

Not spite so much as I saw others doing it and eventually decided I wanted to try doing it my way. I suppose that would fall more under being inspired than being spiteful. Though my dedication to see the story through to the end definitely did come from spite, as I was sick and tired of coming...

I only have one case of illusion magic in my story so far, and that could be considered softcore gaslighting. It's effective invisibility by telling the minds of whoever witnesses it that 'This isn't important. Don't think anything of it.' But as others have said, it depends on the author that...

I feel the title should change depending on what readerbase you want to attract. Going the My Grandmother was Isekaied as a Llama with an Attitude While I Became Her Crow Best Friend route will catch the attention of a reader looking for that sort of webnovel, but if you're writing a Jane Austen...

One hundred percent, or a hundred percent. I'm not against using the other forms if the situation were to call for it, but using numerics (100) in regular prose has always felt lazy to me. Better to spell it out unless there's a good reason not to.

I tend to prefer instrumental music, since lyrics tend to mess with my ability to find the words I want. But there are exceptions, such as a couple of Starset's albums (specifically, Vessels, Horizons, and Transmissions) as well as some Breaking Benjamin and a little Thousand Foot Krutch. Epic...

Might have to read your work just for that. :blobrofl: I laughed my ass off at your earlier tirade.

...You wouldn't happen to insult people in your stories from time to time, would you?