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Nah, just a mega prude who is very squeamish. But I bring up several of those things since I've been explicitly told those all qualify as sexual content on royalroad. How am I to know if it counts here or not, the wording is just as unclear. "Sexual content is anything that touches the subject...

I'd generally agree with most of that. Ok, all of that really. Some of my work isn't too hard to work around issues. But some of it, specifically Immaculate, its a bit too tied to the characters emotional journey to really avoid. Thing is I'd say its already more evocative than explicit for the...

I dont really see the relevance to my problem..? Do you mean because of my discomfort with the sites where its permitted? Well, discomfort aside, I also dont think those sites reader bases would really like it. Thats... About what I am doing for the time being, yeah. But it still just feels...

So this might take some explanation. Basically, as a general rule, my protagonists can go through some really traumatizing and dark stuff but only things they can fully recover from to the point of being better at the end of the story than they started it. I don't like tragedies and I dont like...

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Parents don't deserve any more attention than they already get. I sure don't see any saviors. Then again, conflict itself is inherently engaging; why would you want a story about people who are just avoiding it all the time? Sounds boring as hell. Ambition, fiery rage and hate, pristine...

Well lemme see... Ok so Immaculate has about 130k, thats my longest one. Empire of Mercy is sitting around 100k. Generation C is split three ways and kinda confusing owing to the number of alternate versions it has, but somewhere around 50k. Restless Sleeper, which has never been posted...

Those categories dont seem even close to all-inclusive. What about stories with multiple major morals? Or stories where morality is centrally important but there also plenty of content unrelated to it? I'd say I tend to verge between no. 02 and no. 03, but neither category actually matches since...

Just like any romance, I will avoid it like the plague. Anything similar to it that I would be able to tolerate would be portraying it in a far more negative light than people generally will do.

In my view, direct criticism is rarely helpful as it mostly just tells you how someone else would write the story. There are some legitimate 'mistakes', but I find its more frequent that things people point to as mistakes- even things people claim are objective, solid fact- are more a matter of...

Why in gods name would either version of me 'betray' eachother? We just got everything we wanted in life! I have a twin! Wow! I'd be ecstatic! Beyond ecstatic! If anything, normal me would consider themself inferior to clone me entirely on the basis of not being a clone. But I know myself enough...

In my experience, anywhere people ask for input on writing tends to attract the dregs of humanity. And usually, people who provide 'feedback' are firmly convinced that they are the planets sole divine arbiter of 'good writing' and know everything best. Further, once there's blood in the water...

Rip through no matter the consequence! Even if I have to rewrite a dozen times. Just keep going, no matter how painful or how bad. There are no easy answers, just push until something breaks, even if that something is you. It can take ages, and rewrites can be even more painful. But you gotta...

I absolutely try to imitate normal world geography, unless I specifically have a reason not to. I'm not opposed to using fantasy logic for geography but I feel there should be a purpose to it, not just handwaving it as "eh its probably magic or something". As an example, in my otherwise mostly...

Why the heck would I want to merge and lose all my new siblings? I'm quite happy with my extended family of self clones, thank-you very much.

Well how about one for each story... Immaculate: Just because something is natural doesn't make it okay, strike out against destiny and wash aside anything that would seek to corrupt you. Zealots Redemption: Dismissing yourself as eternally damned is nothing but a form of cowardice, a...

what the heck is "the novel extra trope"?

Yup! Birthright and Immaculate both do quite poorly but I'm still here trucking along. Now do I want more readers...? Absolutely. But the story goes on one way or the other.

The funny thing is that I don't write romance, and I'm 100% with you on having a problem with it everywhere and despising it as an emotion. I just disagreed with your logic, not the end result; I hate romance with a passion you will not find anywhere. Heh. But I consider it an important thing to...

Whew, well let me see! So the things I get criticized for the most tends to be pacing. Myself, I feel I struggle most with slice of life and small talk. Its a genre I actually like, and enjoy, but I find it so much harder to write because its hard to think of how characters interact when I dont...