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In general, I agree, absolutely. 1-3K tends to be the sweet spot of what an author can manage in their head, and being the average of the two: 2K is not a bad spot for a chapter break. But I do think that a 999 word segment of Hegel will read to most people as ‘a chapter’. Just as I also...

Based on the synopsis for which I have no more to go on than I noped out of the user interface of Stellaris when I tried to play it, I am aware that Honkai Star Rail *exists*, and that’s a couple of Chinese-sounding names in a xianxia classic format: I liked the synopsis. Genuinely, I think...

Shapeshifters, which I refer to personally as ‘Shoggoth’ due to the prevalence of shapeshifter stories that involve Shoggoth and lesser tentacle monsters. As defined as: shapeshifting maybe-bioweapons, sometimes-tentacled, always-slimy, often-superpowered, horrifying monsters-that-are-people...

I was immediately going to go for things like Psycho Pass, then I realised I was misunderstanding. Redditor Nietzsche broke me for a moment, not going to lie. Shin Sekai Yori absolutely nails everything… except the possible setting of medieval Europe. You will read the world coming undone in...

The important takeaway is: That other place is a waste of space. It’s fundamentally impossible to change someone’s mind through argument (or so it would forever seem: we are most likely not rational beings of logical basis who formed out of the Three Great Edicts A=A B≠A No C… but are...

I could. But Cupcake beat me to it, and did it better :)

The one where the MC *is* Hinata was really good (A Strange New Life) up to where I’ve read. I’ve never been more scared of Orochimaru in my life (which is to say, I’ve never been scared of them before: but i should have been). I’ve noticed some, but I worry that what I read has influenced my...

Bah, should have read the thread the whole way through before I started going back: Yes: people perceive things differently. No: it isn’t strange that people engage with what they see according to how they view it. Yes: that means there is a capacity to engage with the same thing differently...

Go ahead and trash it. It made its bed, and it should bloody well lie in it. I once posted a story to Royalroad, which was rejected for referencing a real world religion… in a post apocalyptic setting where religion, and ritual, and mysticism hold great power. That is all for my particular...

Ahh, it is a good thing to get your work out there. What I will say to that, is that new eyes will be falling upon it either way. Go with your gut: you can do no wrong here.

It’s the same button. If it feels like it straddles the line between the optics of both genre: do both. If you’re explaining how everything works and are lacking in the word ‘magic’: I’d lean sci fi. If you’re content to let the world speak for itself, and aren’t too bothered by the...

Pretty much just that. I might have called it ‘self-exploration’, but that does work, yes. And if I am that clone? Same answer! (Not much better living one can do in just 24 hours).

Gosh that is so pretty. Wonder why I don’t remember this; it's my jam. Literally can’t find it on spotify, but youtube had me cover— OOH that’s jazz. Oooooh that’s the jazz. (It’s R&B apparently; music genres are harder for me to read than literary ones.) If I only listened to a low 2K songs...

Till The End Of Time was pretty cool at least. I think I have PTSD for trying to fill out the maps for the bunny ‘move speed plus’ rewards. So many maps were at 99.Number percent complete, and no amount of wall hugging seemed to fix it for me. I hope the series has continued to be fun, and I...

When I manage to go uninterrupted in telling a story for two minutes in real life: it’s usually because I’m (unintentionally) holding the other person hostage to social norms that say, “You can’t tell someone to shut their trap and go away.” Yet in writing, I can chain together 3600 words in a...

Perhaps writing should be insulted, though? Derided, disparaged, and subject to every single expression of societal disgust! Is not writing but playing pretend with dress up dollies? Elevated only for their having been wreathed in words for an audience’s discernment; the performative...