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I have a story 63 chapters in. If I wanted to post special content for a premium subcription, where's the best place to do that? I've tried Patreon but they disabled my account. I didn't have much up there, though

It's between the first and the last for me, depending on what story you want to tell. The first one has his sword out, and their pose is more dramatic. The male is clearly the protector, here. That's your classical He-Man pose, very successful genre. The last one has a similar degree of...

1. Show us. Don't just put us there, take us there. Does the sunlight glint off the chandelier? Is everything quiet except the ticking of the clock, or are children playing outside? Breakfast? Lunch? Dinner? What's coming from the kitchen? Roast duck or ramen noodles? 2. You can also use...

Rule #11 — these are all guidelines, not rules. They're good guidelines, but only you know what's important.

? if you didn't want to be on their platform, why post there?

I stood up straight, rested one hand on the hilt, lifted my chest high, and gazed gloriously towards the heavens. “I am called to arms! I shall swear to die for our holy Emperor so that he may go on being a cunt… or cunt emperor to be holy… wait, which was it?”

I don't. I used to. But I found it hard to be honest sometimes not knowing if they're going to trash mine out of revenge

I don't have to write, I'm just taking it easy, I'm down to about 4 pages a day, you know, just taking it one step at a time. I can quit whenever I want, really. You're the one with the problem.

At the end of the day, you're writing a story that you want to pull your audience in. Having little moments like "why is this happening" build great tension, like "I thought this was a level 10 dungeon, why are we fighting level 20 monsters wtf?" Is a legitimate question. That's the kind of...

Timmy isn't making enough to buy a latte, but by telling everyone he makes $3000 he gets the attention he craves

I wouldn't trust my work to one of those things. I keep it in a separate file, and copy/paste into the context window when I need it to tell me how amazing I am.

You publish on Tapas? Don't they limit chapter length?

It's just that you're asking for feedback on the chapter title, and neither of the options you presented do anything for me. All you've mentioned is that some flying characters fight an elder dragon in the sky. So... "Make it Rain"?

How does the chapter end?

My solution for writer's block: go into it planning to delete everything and start over. Takes the pressure off from it having to be any good.

I'm writing first. I made that choice long ago with my WIP because I figured someday I might want to go Roshomon, and I figured 1st pov just makes that too easy

First, I wouldn't put too much weight into anything ChatGPT says, or any AI model for that matter. It's a statistical model that runs gazillions of computations to try and predict what the next word should be. It doesn't understand anything, doesn't react to anything, doesn't feel anything. I...

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This, right here, is what I aim for.

As you learn and grow, you will come across a lot of terms like expository, info-dump, rising action, tension, moment-response, repetitive phrasing, and yadda yadda yadda. TBH the best thing you can do is beta-read for other writers. It's one thing to name these things, but to see them in...