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  1. Forcalor

    Writing ? QUESTION FOR THE BRAVE

    I guess you'd actually like anime because battling existentialism and attempting non sequitur storytelling is kind of their shtick. Try Cowboy Bebop, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Ghost in the Shell, Space Dandy, Steins Gate -- any of those good old classics. I believe there are many more, but...
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    Lets get physical.... metaphysical that is.

    Having a clear cut understanding of how time works in a story that will eventually deal with it is nice, but it seems like you're setting up a lot of hand-waving and deux ex machinas with this approach, which might not make for a good mystery. Also it's inevitably simplifying a much more...
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    What genres of music do you listen to while writing/reading?

    I can't write in tandem with listening music but it was a great inspiration to me so far. I've gone so far as to making playlists that in my opinion are close to the various moods I aim to convey in my writing -- like this one for example.
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    PSA: Stop Asking if People Would be Interested in a Story

    It isn't an issue that warrants a PSA in my opinion. Some people who are only starting out want to discuss their ideas or get a confidence boost -- absolutely nothing is criminal about that. Of course it would be absolutely better for them to instead roll up their sleeves and get to work, but...
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    Describe your MC in one sentence

    Love is sacrifice.
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    Sell me on your MC, not your story

    She is a talking singing horse, and people love horses Also
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    Sell me on your MC, not your story

    She is an immortal figure of authority who goes through a time of great upheaval while being locked in unending cycle of suffering by unfathomable cosmic forces.
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    How do you explain "magic"?

    Sometimes you simply have to go with the sheer absurdity of it, I think, and with how wonderful and unknown the world around us is. Take gravity, for instance... oh, I meant to tell the curved spacetime field that our little speck of a planet, a tiny zit on the universe's ass, emanates just...
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    To authors who do worldbuilding. How big is your lore bible?

    I organize everything through an archive on GitHub with an easy and quick access, and if you include my array of notes... well, it's not that big, actually, maybe 30k words? I have a tendency to pen down only what I will use later.
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    How do you explain "magic"?

    It's easy. You see Everything is Magic.
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    Can a mecha be considered a character?

    Eh, can we define what a character is, first? I was always under assumption that it means having things like agency and personality -- that is, a character is someone who is recognized in-story as a person or anything adjacent to that. I feel like not all mechas are equal in this regard
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    When does a character stop being a character?

    If taken in context of this, most likely it's a symptom of a genre (or perhaps of a writing that isn't focused on evoking empathy for some reason). Those 'characters' were never established as characters in the first place, unless there are some metacommentary involved about the value of a human...
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    So… does your protagonist want to be the best?

    My protagonist wants to burn bright.
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    Romance or Fantasy?

    I can't see why you should choose one or the other. Romance and Fantasy as genres cover wildly different topics and moods, no? If anything, Romance is a subgenre and Fantasy is more generalist
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    Are stories written by AI good?

    Stories written only by AI can't be good. There must be a human input
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    Can a slow-burn romance really work without any toxic stuff?

    Of course it can, but I guess the author needs to be secure enough they can pull it off, and the reader must be patient, which might be a feat of its' own.
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    How many of you take writing seriously? (Poll)

    I write because I enjoy to make art, so naturally I'd like to excel at it.
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