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Magical Taruruuto-kun (まじかる☆タルるートくん) aka Magical Taruruto. It’s basically ecchi shonen Doraemon.

Quality is subjective, as everyone keeps saying. People have different taste. However, your taste changes throughout your life. Kids like certain flavors, certain kind of entertainment. Other tastes develop as you get older, or your friends and your life experience expose you to different...

Rough draft: because I'm writing with AI tools I'm trying TTS and speech recognition, so I just say the next sentence (or usually part of the sentence, since it's easier to "steer" the AI that way) then the AI reads the next part it generated to me, then I continue, etc. I just have to press...

Gun that makes cookies!

So maybe what you discovered (although it probably needs more testing) is that the average "views to words ratio" for a non-explicit story with a low number of views is around 0.25? I find these kinds of metrics interesting, in part because it's the sort of thing that's used by business people...

Physics

CURSED!!!

I find it much more useful to read reviewers where reviewers talk about WHAT they liked about someone's work -- whether it's a written work, a game, a show, whatever. If I read that and those are not things I tend to enjoy: easy call. I don't like that stuff. Useful review! If I do like those...

Passed the arbitrary threshold and made it to “Well-Known Author” today!

I’m doing this in a small way with just my stories plus one more, Parturient, by another author (The Wolf Among the Woods). It helped that she read most of the first big novel and then started to have her own complementary but different ideas. Having a bunch of material to build off is good. We...

Probably just because I've read a dozen web novels / light novels but hundreds of books that are split into trilogies or series, so my brain thinks of them like separate books, and there's a thematic/tone shift in the "new book." Just like a new season of a TV show, you could probably take a...

Yeah I don't think any of the volumes (I have outlines for three) would be more than 80 chapters. So if there are three, it might be around 200, everything else would be side-stories / spinoffs. However, my chapters are average 3k words, which is probably 50% more than average. Probably worth...

Do children in this world have baby teeth, and if so then what is done with the baby teeth when they fall out? If this varies by species or culture, what are the variations?

I know not everyone "thinks" in volumes, some webnovels are just a chain of hundreds of chapters. For my main series, when I got about ~55 chapters in I reached a point where I thought "YES! This is totally where volume 1 ends." Then the second volume of the story, still in first draft state...

Love to think about this uncomfortable question and write down an answer I can look back at later and think “did I actually work on those things…” 1. Unnecessary dialogue tags and dialogue tags that get overly flowery rather than trying to show mood or tone through action and speech, like “he...

Oh yeah, I found it! The trope fantasy and sci-if writers used to use for this was “calling a rabbit a smeerp.” The author James Blish came up with it and the idea was taught for a long time at SFF workshops: https://pattyjansen.com/calling-a-rabbit-a-smeerp/ The “Iron Horse Berserker” example...

There are often good reasons for “zombie” and “monster” to have different names, because of in-world knowledge or making the story less generic, like has already been said. In past decades, like in fantasy and sci-fi writing from the 80s-00s, there was a trend for a while where ALL sorts of...

There are people called lexicologists who spend their whole careers studying how language is used, tracking how it changes, making recommendations for usage, and who try to avoid bias, politics, etc. It's as close as you're going to get, for language, to the equivalent of a medical doctor or...

The dictionary is a pretty good resource on this, as they have lexicographers who study how words are used throughout history and in current times. Here's what Merriam-Webster has to say: And Oxford English Dictionary has an article: A brief history of singular ‘they’ | Oxford English...

I see… it is more about the fluffy than anything… if I am understanding correctly.