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I'll be honest, perfect memory or not, an entire library isn't enough to be a god. Application of knowledge is what is required. All libraries aren't gods. Perfect memory and reading a library just makes you a library yourself. If you can't apply that knowledge it doesn't really matter...

See 1- The feedback you'll get on ideas alone on the forums aren't representative of what the majority of readers may think. This is due to sampling bias. You aren't actually getting a sample of readers, you're getting a sample of readers/authors who use the forum, which is a particular type...

The content of my post is the reasons why they shouldn't for their own sake, not mine. I usually skim their posts, then ignore, because I am a very picky reader. The reasons they shouldn't aren't because it's annoying, but because it is detrimental to them as potential authors. Thank you for...

My personal take is that not all communication is necessarily constructive or conducive to achieving a goal. The question itself puts the potential author into a space where they are more likely to fail than if they didn't ask it. I also don't advise people to go to reddit to ask for investing...

They need not complete it. The action of trying to write it will inform them of many actual questions they would benefit from asking. They need only start to see what questions they should actually ask. That is why I see it as similar. They haven't even started the process to even know what...

I personally don't think it is kind to allow them to not engage honestly with their own work. Every author has more ideas than they have time to write. Not writing is wasting your potential as an author, and waiting for feedback to write is wasting that time you could spend writing. There...

Lately, there has been an influx of people asking, "Would you be interested in reading this?" or "How interesting is my story idea?" Not only is this a plague upon the forums, but it's bad for those who ask the question for multiple reasons, which I will enumerate now: 1. Forums, even reader...

LitRPG has a lot of different aspects that make it up. Removing levelling is like removing meat from a sandwich while leaving everything else on, and asking if it is still a sandwich. Meat might be the most common item on a sandwich, but it isn't the end all be all. You can even make a...

This is definitely LitRPG.

Long ass post incoming. So, first I'll throw this out there that most names have meaning. Frequently, people feel like names are arbitrary in real life, which leads some authors to have difficulty picking a name (since the possible choice space is practically infinite). Most names are...

The rule is very unclear as to when, and there are plenty of times when, to tell. This has been hashed out multiple times on the forums. One can expound literally infinitely and show every single thing, but sometimes, the only thing that really mattered was the gun was placed on the table, not...

Sounds like coping and seething to me.

Yes. There are examples in every language that go either direction. The density difference is like 5-10% or something. On the average though, English is more dense. For every forest combat, there is an ice skating. On the balance, as demonstrated by the study, English is slightly more dense...

A compound word is going to have more syllables than a single english word that describes the same thing. For example: Streichholzschachtel -> Matchbox Strike-wood-box. 4 syllables -> 2 syllables English has a lot of words like this that other languages prefer compound descriptive words for...

Cope and seethe, less information dense languages. All these other languages have to literally talk faster in order to convey as much information per syllable as english (and many literally do). Added note: - Other languages are like, "English is just borrowing from all these other...

Other people have written more extensive guides than I have, but I'll give a quick summary on what I think you might need to do, as well as what questions you need to ask yourself. First and foremost, you need to ask yourself what are you actually aiming for? Some genres perform better than...

I personally don't like the infinite power growth cycle thing. As long as there is *progression* of some kind, and that the characters learn and achieve things, then it should be fine. Or make it a horrible tragedy, and watch as more and more people become NPCs around them, until they finally...

The problem we have is that we evolved to use tools, and no longer have a strong bite or crushing strength. Monkeys still can inflict deep damage with fangs. Ducks have short talons but would suffer similar damage from a kick as we would from a punch from a gorilla. This was posited as the...