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It is currently 3:15 pm where I live, but for me it's more like 2:00 am. I'm starting my new job as a night shift security guard this week, so I'm trying to transition into a night shift schedule, staying up all night and sleeping during the day. I'm pretty good at the "staying up all night"...

Despite knowing that litrpgs are the easiest way to break into the webnovel market, it took me years to write one because I had no interest at all in the genre. I tried once or twice to write a litrpg simply for the attention it could get me, but I always gave up after one or two chapters...

My plan was to release XNPC on the first Sunday of 2026. I'd post the first nine chapters all at once so it'd be eligible for RR's rising stars list, then do daily updates for a couple weeks before switching to a Wednesday/Saturday schedule. But I've been adding and changing so much stuff over...

This is just something I've been mulling over for the past couple days. How does it make you feel when an author gives their main character a debilitating injury or condition midway through the story? I'm thinking about doing that to one of my characters, and I'm curious what people think about...

Shitposting. It's for shitposting.

A week or so ago, I mentioned that I was interested in making a visual novel someday. My exposure to VNs is pretty limited. I've played (and loved) the Phoenix Wright games, but those are so different from "normal" VNs that they practically don't count. I played a couple hours of Doki Doki...

YouTube Poops have been a guilty pleasure of mine for the past few years. No, they're not what they sound like. Are there any more men (or women) of culture here? If so, post a link to your favorite YTPs here.

I'm getting ready to release XNPC early next month, and I'm going to drop the first nine chapters all on day one on Royal Road so it'll be eligible for the Rising Stars list. But I remember hearing that Scribble Hub has a limit on how many chapters you can post in one day before you're flagged...

Someone gets turned into a dungeon core, but instead of doing the normal dungeon core thing (building a dungeon around himseld and filling it with traps and monsters to protect him) instead he uses his new fleshcrafting powers (what he would normally use to create monsters) to build himself a...

For the past year or so, I've been really interested in trying to make a visual novel. Does anyone have any experience with this? I've heard that Ren'py is the best tool for it. I used to use Twine to make fun little (non-visual) choose your own adventure stories, so I'm somewhat familiar with...

Here's something I haven't been able to make my mind up about while editing XNPC. I've been giving dungeons levels according to the median of the monsters inside them. So if a dungeon has mobs that range from level 10 to level 20, the dungeon will be rated at level 15. But one dungeon they go to...

While proofreading XNPC, it occurred to me that I've gotten into the habit of using all caps when one of my characters yells. I know that's not considered professional, and I can't think of any professionally published books that do it off the top of my head. I think it works all right in a...

My artist is finally done with XNPC's cover! I think it looks awesome. What do you all think?

I don't like having to use my book's narration to just straight out explain things if I don't have to. Like, if a name is pronounced a certain way, I don't want to have to go "The word was spelled [blah] but he pronounced it [bleh]." I just wrote this as a way to make it sound a little more...

In XNPC, dungeons aren't measured in levels like Heroes and monsters are. Instead, they have skull ratings, with the difficulty going up the more skulls it has. That's harder to get across in text than I expected, though. Usually, my character boxes look like this: LEVEL 25 ECCLESIASTIC VIPER...

I'm editing XNPC, and I can't make up my mind about this sentence: He flinched when she grabbed his cast and held it up to the light, as if she could see through it like an envelope and judge how the bone was healing. Is holding an envelope up to the light to see through it a common enough...

I've been watching One Piece, and I'm on the Sabaody Park arc with the Celestial Dragons. I'm at the part where they're trying to rescue their friend from the human auction, and...is it just me, or are the Celestial Dragons too hatable? Yeah, I know, you're supposed to hate the villains. Half...

When I release XNPC, I want it to be on the first day of the month. I'm just waiting for my cover to be finished, but it doesn't look like that will be until at least a couple days into December. That means if I stick to my plan, the earliest I can release it is on January 1st. That doesn't...

Abilities and skills play a big role in XNPC, but until now I haven't really had any way to limit which skills the characters can use. They get new skills as they level up, but they can also learn skills outside their class' skill tree with skillbooks. The problem there was that there was...

Have you ever stopped to think about just how backwards the concept of burnout actually is? Brain: "I love doing thing! Thing is my favorite thing to do!" You: "Okay, let's do thing!" Brain: "I will literally jump off a cliff if I ever have to do thing again."