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  1. RecursiveDescent

    Ok, I think I'll do it too. Build a character for my story.

    Some gods you can definitely make use of are Chronos and Cronus. Chronos can definitely be an interesting choice to make a character out of in that environment. Chronos is the personification of time, and often represents the inevitable passage of time and is rather neutral in terms of good or...
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    Small details you like, when you reading stories here

    I prefer when villains have motivations that aren't just delusional jealousy or wanting more power. Too many villains just want to rule over everything without even an idea of what they're gonna do with it. Or even just when the hero doesn't always have to win and doesn't always have to be right...
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    What are some aspects of your story you aren't happy about?

    Nothing in my story ever feels detailed enough, I have a habit of just not describing things I don't deem important in some way. So it just feels like something is missing that every other story I read has. Plus the pacing is like insanely too fast, it's only been like 40 chapters and I'm...
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    Gosh darn “I travel into a novel” gripes

    If you really want to go with a perfectly recalling mc that doesn't require them to be super invested or have a super memory you can solve this by having the system or whatever give him a copy of the novel and like a limited time to speed reread and make notes. Even without making notes to refer...
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    Writing Need some advice on [Indifference to Empathy]

    Just a small addition but it would also be a good development later on to show the growth by having it find a way to break out of the curse but still choose not to make use of it.
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    Worst Writing Trope

    He's not really delusional about that either. His emotional instability was his biggest weakness. If he really wanted to he could have fallen for that bait and then just ignored L and he still would never be caught. Hell if at any point he took the eye deal he would have been unstoppable...
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    Worst Writing Trope

    The only thing worse are the people that try to defend those stories if you criticize it. They'll try to say crap like "BuT He'Ll dRaW atTenTioN to HiMSElf aNd his FRIENDS will be in DanGER!" and it's like bro, the MC hiding his power for no reason is precisely the reason why all the villains...
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    Worst Writing Trope

    you don't have to create to be a god, it's not like the geniune shinigami in his world do anything special the only difference is that they're immortal and depending on how you define a god you don't necessarily have to never be able to die, even the shinigami could die if they put themselves at...
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    Worst Writing Trope

    Is it really delusional if it's true. If being able to kill anyone with just their name and face doesn't make you a god by some definition I don't know what does.
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    Worst Writing Trope

    When monster reincarnation novels start making their mc not care about human lives at all or make them antagonists for doing basically anything that impedes the mc no matter how reasonable it is. Mind manipulation or not they were still human before and they become something else and all of a...
  11. RecursiveDescent

    My culinary experiment

    Wait until you invent carbonated milk. You will go from 'short lived' to having mastered the instant spoiled milk potion
  12. RecursiveDescent

    Names for the Beasts in my story.

    Sometimes you can try to apply symbolism as well, like how Salem would fit for a witch cat (a tv show does just this but i long forgot its name, it was Sabrina the teenage witch or smth) There are some other modifications to it like Salemite or Salemancer that also sound cool. Of course, these...
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    Story plot idea

    I think 2 is better for one of the reasons being that there's not much room for family drama, after all if you tie who can marry you to whether you win or lose a duel then there is really no room for family to start drama over it unless he really just got lucky in the duel.
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    Realm Name(s)

    Capoeira is cool as hell. I had an antagonist character I tried to base off a Capoeira inspired sword style, but my MC only had like an advantage in magic and I kinda gave him a magic cancel thing to level the field... So yeah, despite my MC also having a literal innate ability to sense attacks...
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    What makes a character evil and when is that evil redeemable?

    I think reading Funouhan can give you really good examples. It's about a contract killer that kills with powers of suggestion/hypnosis His main motivation is to find the true nature of humans or something like that. Sometimes people that contract him are jealous or driven by ego and the...
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    Can a Human become Ominiscient

    In my newer story, my protagonist could be considered omniscient depending on how you define it. He can't see every single thing in the world at once, but if he has a question about something it gets answered by his system even if he's just idly thinking about it, and he can observe whereever he...
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    How To Fight Inactivity Block

    If I had to answer what works for me, it would be to come up with a story goal even if you don't know how to get there. If you're really desperate you can try not to think too hard and simply let the story flow in any way you can keep it going. But it's not good to make too many chapters going...
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