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  1. Scaletalon

    What is your favourite fantasy race/creature?

    I never thought I'd see the day where the Reddit thread for this vote is more than SH.
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    What is your favourite fantasy race/creature?

    You'd be surprised. Human is winning the vote so far on Reddit.
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    What is your favourite fantasy race/creature?

    Just a poll for fun.
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    Tell me the New Year's Resolution that you will keep. No, seriously, I'll follow through this year. Don't give me that look.

    Finish the 1st draft I'm doing on a story set in ancient Rome and spend the rest of this year completing a trilogy.
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    The Last to Comment Wins

    Nope.
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    The pain of being a science fantasy author

    Oh yeah sorry about that. When I was making this I meant that on most webnovel sites you can only choose Sci fi or fantasy as a main genre and there is often no science fantasy option so you have to decide on which one to pick as a main genre. Oh boy. Everybody misunderstood the post.I was...
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    The pain of being a science fantasy author

    EDIT: When I was making this post I was referring to how on most webnovel sites you can only choose fantasy or Sci-fi as a main genre so I was referring to how most of the time you have to choose which main genre to pick.
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    I've come up with a sport for one of my WIP stories. What are your thoughts?

    So I'm making this world called Alestria during the period of the Pytherian Empire. (This world's equivalent of the Roman Empire) There's also this city called Amphitea which is the entertainment centre and hosts games similiar to those in the Colesseum but with a twist. There are no slaves in...
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    Author Preferences: Show or Tell

    It really depends on your style but overall you should be aiming to do both showing and telling. Showing helps when it comes to describing your scenery or conveying an emotion while telling can help quicken the pacing or give some vackstory that may not work when made into a flashback There's...
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    What are your thoughts on this image as a cover?

    This is the full uncropped version of this cover acquired from Vecteezy. For context, the story is about a former despot called Ferric who planned to invade all of Pangea (A fictional group of states in this story) He loses the war and is sent to a different dimension as punishment for his war...
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    Does anyone else also hate how reincarnation is often handled?

    Now don't get me wrong, I do think reincarnation can be great when done well, that's the same for any other trope. What I do hate is when it just forgotten about after the start of a story. Whenever I read a story about reincarnation I always have questions. How did the person reincarnate in the...
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    I need your advice on how to show, rather than tell.

    That's a good request but what you really need to focus on is show AND tell. Show don't tell can be quite vague and most people misinterpret it as describing everything which often leads to overdescription, slow pacing and purple prose. So writing is not just about showing nor is it all telling...
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    Your Top 5 Favourite and Worst Tropes

    After all your time on SH, what would you say are your top 5 favourite tropes and the other top 5 that you hate and why?
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    Daily Word Count Thread

    Tbh, I don’t keep track of that. I just do one chapter per day and just write until I can’t no more.
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    Would like some feedback on a backstory

    Tbh, I prefer the 1st one. Plenty of people in history resorted to cannibalism due to lack of food so it does feel realistic. It's also more tragic since she is being eaten alive by her own parents and makes us feel sorry for her and how it will affect her life in the long run.
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    I just got the weirdest AI image yet

    I think we found the next horror movie idea.
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