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  1. KrakenRiderEmma

    Named chapters, yes or no?

    I do #4 on my main series, and it can get difficult to keep it going for 92+ chapters, which is more than Around the World in Eighty Days, or Don Quixote or Vanity Fair. Not all of them are going to be witty, but unless you're very straightforward (which is less funny) it can be hard to use them...
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    What is it like to post on AO3 and/or RR?

    I'd have to create a smut-light version of my series for RR (their ratio is something like 1/11 for explicit content?) so I've never gotten around to it, but I posted the first volume of my series on AO3. It's an original work, so it doesn't get as much attention as a fandom work, for sure. But...
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    Cute girls who do gay things and also maybe eat people

    I have a lot of cute girls who do gay things and not that much literal eating (well, one girl eats another girl in one chapter of my main series, but it's fairly magical). However I want to contribute this image of a character I didn't use... yet
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    Writing Prompt Finish the Synopsis: I was hit by a truck and died.Then I met a goddess. I thought she would send me to a fantasy world to learn magic. Instead, she.

    I was hit by a truck and died. Then I met a goddess. I thought she would send me to a fantasy world to learn magic. Instead, she took me by the hand and gave me a sad, kind stare. “Sorry, kiddo. Bad luck, getting hit like that. You’re dead now.” “That’s it? That’s my life?” “Yup, that’s it.”...
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    Finish The Story: We Can't Be Together

    You finally gathered courage. You're finally going to confess. With a letter in the backpack, you wrote "Meet me on the rooftop," and waited. You were anxious, afraid that no one would show up, but everything went well, at least until now. You said, "I like you! Please go out with me!" "I'm...
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    Introduce your character(s) to us!

    Only one so far, but she's one of the main characters, so she gets to appear in a supporting character bio :D
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    Introduce your character(s) to us!

    Gonna do one of my supporting cast... Victoria Lombardi, MSW, Ph.D Director, New York Office of Supernatural Affairs (OSA) Formerly: FBI Crisis Negotiation Unit, Afghanistan peacekeeping forces community liaison and mediator, social worker, psychologist Two advanced degrees, founded her own...
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    I’m not a guy

    Hey. Hey now. I want to say, out of respect for the topic of this thread (puppet girls) that I don't just do tentacles or demon tails that just happen to look exactly like tentacles. The third story in my sig is a creepy android-puppet body horror story. Something for everyone
  9. KrakenRiderEmma

    What do y'all use to write?

    What did you want to know, which AI tool? Links are in my profile (forum and stories) and on each story but it’s NovelAI.net from Anlatan. Latest model is Kayra, it’s pretty good if you learn how to pilot it well. (Some people try to run it without writing anything themselves, or just give it a...
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    I’m not a guy

    I also thought you were a girl, but that’s probably because I associate creepy body horror / puppet stuff with girls, so many girls I know into that aesthetic ( mostly East Asian girls, not sure why )
  11. KrakenRiderEmma

    What do y'all use to write?

    Yeah, I tried out the Obsidian AI plugins and would NOT use them to write. They all use OpenAI models (ChatGPT) or Llama. Because of safety protocols, there are very few models that don't have a robotic feel, and those models work differently than prompting for output. The one I use has its own...
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    What do y'all use to write?

    Wow, I just started using Obsidian recently to edit my drafts and this is a really useful list. I had no idea about Smart Typography and Longform, in particular -- those are very useful. Thank you. (What, no Thesaurus? Is the Obsidian thesaurus bad?) As for what I use to write: Before Obsidian...
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    Words from the master, Stephen King's words!

    I like how halfway through this video he's like "wait, what is this doing here... is this a gavel?!"
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    Writing Prompt Finish The Story: When You're In Love

    Your teenage son comes knocking on your door. He looks embarrassed by something he didn't even say yet. You say, "What is it?" trying not to say, "SPIT IT OUT DAMN KID." He asks: "How do you know when you're in love?" You furrow your brow. How can this be happening already? "Don't worry...
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    How to write a certain scene?

    I guess that paragraph I wrote is some of how I'd put it on paper, if I was writing in second person. In third person, I would describe what the character who feels disgusted is experiencing, seeing, hearing, noticing. The thoughts they are having about how their attention is drawn to the...
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    How to write a certain scene?

    Videotape yourself eating food, with the camera close to your mouth, and recording audio. Play it back on a much larger screen, with the audio turned up. This will reveal the truth that the Denethor scene is also about: eating is a disgusting biological process. Hard mallets of bone are...
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    Recommendations Soul bind/ contract, except it is with a weapon than a beast.

    Book of Swords series by Fred Saberhagen — these swords are sentient to varying degrees and some are more attached to their wielder than others. Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson — pretty powerful bound swords called Oathblades. Only one fully sentient weapon, though, a totally unhinged...
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    Over 600k Words

    Be careful making comparisons, especially on your first work -- a lot of authors benefit from having established fanbase from earlier works. Plus, for your story I wouldn't compare to the "big trendy genre" stories like Isekai or LitRPG, since it seems more like classic fantasy, and the "popular...
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    Sorry, I should probably remove that one. It's an upcoming work that I have drafts of, but it's...

    Sorry, I should probably remove that one. It's an upcoming work that I have drafts of, but it's not ready to post yet. (Especially because I have another neglected series to finish first.) When I added it to my sig, I thought I'd be putting the first chapters up in a week!
  20. KrakenRiderEmma

    Over 600k Words

    First: congratulations! It's a huge accomplishment, especially the rewrite from scratch. That's what separates true writers, in my opinion. (I am not one of them.) Second: Oh my god, please make a backup somewhere, just in case something happens to the SH database. Copy and paste it into a...
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