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I vote most strongly against clinical; the specific physicality of the situation in many ways is secondary to the emotional and mental stuff going on. Yes, it informs and modifies the mental state, but from a story perspective, it is not the important part. Also, if going clinical, then you...

Well, all three of them are blends, whether comparing them to canon ancestry or RW groupings/nationalities. Mordecai appears to be some blend of Mediterranean, including a little bit of Persian. Given that he literally designed his body, this was a choice that was influenced by an on-again...

So: Species, or 'races'? Elves and Dwarves are species, not races. The concept of race/ethnicity is basically a fiction already. "Hispanic" is the biggest example of this, as it is liberally used on both Native Americans from Mexico and nearby areas, as well as on the descendants of Spanish...

It will vary by needs. I have over 900K words written, and I never wrote a proper outline. However: While I only started with a basic scene and some characters, and just simply started writing from there, I discovered the general shape of my primary antagonist in the process. Great, I have a...

Nooo; I don't want it to do anything while I am writing, all those underlines would mess with me. I do it this way specifically to avoid having it try to prompt me while I am still writing. I want it to check things only after I am done with the chapter.

Well, there's True Names per the Earthsea series, which builds on older mythological concepts of true names and the true language of the world (i.e. in the Old Testament, the story of the tower of Babel). Having it be related to a specific species/language is also reminiscent of the Thu'um...

Libre office is my writing app, which I also use to take notes. My chapters are immediately saved via RR, SH, Patreon, and Discord; RR and SH being thanks to the draft saving/schedule functions. My 'official' notes (which includes some behind the scenes tracking of abilities) get uploaded to...

Note: More than a few stories have done fairly well that started as FanFics, then had the 'serial numbers' scrubbed off. I have not read your work, but assuming it meets the quality it was described as having, simply editing it enough to change the fanfic sections to be different-but-similar...

Generative 'AI' is truly nothing more than a very advanced version of the text prediction stuff that's on your phones. There's nothing 'smart' about it, and it understands nothing, though that text prediction part is why it can be useful as a grammar/punctuation checker. Such a thing could...

I use it in 1 limited way: I have free grammarly, which I use to catch the things that the spellchecker in libre office does not catch, such as incorrect/missing punctuation. But I only have it installed on chrome, which is not my primary browser, so it is not giving me feedback while I am...

Yes, I use the occasionally. Funnily enough, I didn't start using them until everyone started complaining about AI using them. That's when I got curious, read up on how to use them properly, and watched a couple of videos. I decided I liked them and that they would add some variety to my...

Absolutely. I rarely do so 'from scratch', most of them could be looked at as extremely heavy editing, but there are a couple where I opened up a new document and started writing the events over on a blank sheet.

I am not sure I could write in that order. By having characters, I have actions, motivations, and goals. This also gives me questions to answer about the world around them, letting me develop the setting. Between the characters, the setting, and the character's history, I have enough...

Character, because the plot develops off of who the character is and what they are doing. I find my antagonist in my characters' back story, whether directly or indirectly. Every antagonist is developed after the protagonists are, and have some sort of link to at least one of the protagonists...

Yeah, I've tweaked sections for clarity more than a few times. Especially if my wife's initial edit pass shows that she misunderstood something.

Just me? Absolutely not. Now, if I could go with my wife and preferably our cats, sure. If just my wife, then we need to make sure the cats are taken care of first. And I would absolutely pick my own world. Brand new characters would work best for a lot of reasons, one of them being that...

Alright, mine is a bit of a hybrid between Dungeon Core, Progression Fantasy, and Fantasy-Romance (there's a romance central to the plot, but it is not built on romance tropes). "No Need For A Core?", and I will need to stub the first volume (Up to CH 44) right before November, probably on...

Hmm, based on OPs description, I am not sure even No Epic Loot qualifies. Everything loops back to her dungeon, but her existence is driving political and military action in the world, and she ends up interacting with other dungeons as well. Oh, and Fox*, that one is a Royal Road story...

I think you are going to find this one difficult to fulfill. Without the other elements that deviate away from a 'pure' dungeon story, it's really hard to create a strong plot. The endless challenge of building an ever deeper and more well defended dungeon works fine for a strategy based game...

Assumption: I can choose *any* deity I know of as my divine patron. Given that assumption, priest/cleric.