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My MC is an orphan and her biological parents literally never come up because they're not relevant to the story, except for one brief vision in book 4 that will explain some of her traits to the reader (in an "oh that's why she's Like That" way). Then the caster who sees it promptly wipes his...

Getting to realize a protagonist who's been taking shape in my mind for decades and watching her grow and overcome. Also, her supporting cast is basically my psyche shot through a prism, so getting to write their arguments and bickering is fun.

"Oh, [goats] are staples for a reason. Livelier than a pig, less unwieldy than a cow, lots of personality...isn't that right Frederick? See? Frederick agrees." "Do you know this goat?" "No. He just looks like a Frederick." "Hate to be the one to tell you this, Sundown...but that's a nanny...

I mean...this is it right here, really. If the story can't be about them advancing in "power" then make it about areas in which they need to grow. My MC is incredibly deadly, but the story revolves around how she keeps people from seeing her that way and how she reconciles her natural talents...

I completely rewrote my introduction chapter because it was dry. Rewrites happen.? I also don't have many readers or followers though, so if you've got people invested you might want to drop a note about it once you do what you need to do to fix it.

I hate to pile on to what seems to be consensus, but yeah I agree. If I went searching for "Romance" stories and came across a promising series where romance is technically a subplot but not really the plot driver? I'd be mildly annoyed at best. It would be like classifying Star Wars as High...

It's presented as magic in a fantasy setting, but I try to keep the results grounded in reality, if that makes sense. Basically saying, if someone could instinctively control or throttle entropic decay, what real effects and limitations might that present? Even in a world with magic and healing...

I feel like that would make a great anticlimax after an extended setup. Like the MC talks to their unknowing friends about their memories of this great holiday and they all visit one yer and get handed...brooms.

Magic users known as Shadow Singers, or Duvcanái, are the central focus of my series. They have an intrinsic connection to primordial entropic forces and experience them as constant, low-level background “screaming”. Sensory deprivation is torture to them. Without normal sensory input, the...

"I don't know why the ducks are being so judgy." I think it was meant to be like a snorted-awake fragment of a dream but who knows?

My protag is able to manipulate entropy and was raised as a weapon. She's been taught to see her abilities as inherently destructive and herself as tainted for having them. As part of her healing arc, she realizes she can use that same power in a more controlled fashion to

A lot of the themes in my series center around entropy and how it can serve growth when directed and controlled. Divinity, in this case, is the only force capable of reversing entropy. Wounds healed with herbal or natural magic still scar because in their cases you’re just accelerating natural...

I've got an innocent table that keeps, through no fault of its own, acting as a teleportation anchor for the MCs. Whether people are eating on it at the time or not. The tavern owner's mother is not amused by this. The wizard is about to stroke out trying to figure out why.

Sure. Coffee-shop AU where the cute, fumbling barista is fugitive special forces operator hiding her cPTSD under latte foam art. Could work.

Much like the communal brain cell, the ensemble cast passes the Moral Compass around to whomever needs it based on context. Except Liriel. Never give the compass to Liriel. Hers spins around like an idiot on a barstool.

Protag is definitely neurodivergent in a world that doesn't exactly have diagnostic criteria for that. EDIT: ...and it's not played for trauma porn/superpower

A little trick that can help the exposition not feel like exposition is to have a character slip it in as dialogue/action. If I can borrow your example to illustrate (obviously I have no idea how your character talks but this is just in my head): In this case, the balanced tray is illustrated...

She couldn't handle a high school dance even at full demon-killing power. So no, hard fail.