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Since this is about "physics" of zombies, allow me to interject with something almost every zombie show or movie neglects, which is energy. The world of almost every zombie film violates the laws of thermodynamics, more specifically, the first law that energy cannot be created or destroyed...

I've got 2 pieces of advice on this, which may or may not apply in your situation. 1. Few authors realistically handle more than one project at a time. They might have two going, one that is their main project, then a second that is an easier, side story (which then sometimes morphs to become...

Ultimately, it heavily depends on your own process. I personally don't treat my webnovel as the final product. It's essentially a free alpha, the first draft, which people choose to support me in writing through patreon. It's a way to guage market value for a completed product. There is no...

My AI art thread gives a little bit of guidance on this, and some people here have touched on it. In essence, if you just prompt AI with like "man in business suit with chinese dragon encircling him", the only information the AI has is that. You haven't provided specified styles or techniques...

Probably should try the website chyoa

I feel like I already saw this thread...

I didn't say that all readers experience this. There is a plague of people who assume that every single person believes and acts the same as them. We're dealing with humans in large numbers, so understanding the group behavior is more important than anecdotes. The fact of the matter simply is...

It usually takes about 70 chapters for a series to start gaining momentum of readers unless you are already a well known author. As such, you should keep it under the same title if possible.

I wrote up a whole guide on getting readers as a fishing analogy. There are quite a few things more important than the first chapter even, though it is very important. Everything that a potential reader could choose to drop your story at is a reason they will. Bad cover, bad title, bad...

Humanoid bodies have expected limitations that an author can navigate around with non-human mcs. If you want a character to literally change form to grow more powerful in interesting ways, this is a method. I had certain abilities and a particular kind of world mechanic to work, so my mc is...

Memory wipes and badly done time loops. I think steins;gate (and not even steins;gate 0) is the only time looping series I enjoyed.

Be cautious of what a view is. I doubt that polls have much of an actual impact on the number of real people viewing the page. In all likelihood, you have a few dozen people who answered the poll, and are checking in on the poll repeatedly. This isn't a survivorship bias, but it's reminiscent...

I have never heard a single successful author who finishes their work complain about not having enough to write. Every single one I know of has more stories than they have time to write. Story ideas are cheap. Writing is hard.

Sailus and Charles already stated it in a way, but being a successful author with readers actually has little to do with your story. It's about business and marketing. Almost every new author envisions it has to do with your story itself. It doesn't. Bad stories have readers and feedback...

From my analysis, webnovels take a minimum of about 70 chapters before they acrue beyond double digits of readers, unless the author already has a following. It takes months to build momentum and get any feedback. If you are already discouraged, you might be too feedback dependent to make it...

1000-2500 words for webnovels. Published... do whatever feels good.

I have not tried doing play by post, but I have plenty of GM experience. Best advice I'd give is to be sure to get ongoing experience feedback from players. If it feels like things aren't pacing well or players are stuck, assess and see if you need to change things.

You were on your way there. I just had the time to sit and write it all out.

Long philosophical musing below. In short, Christian morals aren't "The Default". Morals are baked into all decision making. If you are telling a story, you're moralizing in one way or another. At their base, that is what stories are. A way of giving people a framework for making moral...

I know you're here among us Tom Rivlin. It's not chance that SciShow produced this video today.