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I have to agree with the others. Even if you had to pick only one, it depends too much on the story itself. Most of the time you'd want both. With a protagonist that has a dynamic arc, you'd typically expect the world to influence them until they become important and powerful enough to start...

Not my paranormal experience, but I was involved with it. We had a two story house and my dad swears that one year, on three separate occasions, me and my two sisters separately walked downstairs into the living room and stared blankly at nothing as we murmured and mumbled incoherently. It was a...

"Show, don't tell" applies a lot more to other media than writing, simply because they can show. You can have an entire action scene play out in a movie without a single line of narration or dialogue telling you anything. If you tried putting an action scene in a written work without writing any...

If I did use AI, it would be the opposite of helping me. I'm very particular about how I want things done, and I've never seen any AI writing that matches it. I'd probably pull a knife on ChatGPT as soon as I see an em dash taking the place of a comma.

I can't tell if it counts as storytelling or language, but the one that kills my interest the quickest is just the narration and the dialogue itself. Like seeing a dozen paragraphs in a row describe how the beautiful sexy protag is beautiful and sexy, in case you didn't get it the first time...

I just write out what the big scenes are going to be, and in what order. It's a lot easier to write when you have a destination in mind. All the smaller details just come naturally from letting the characters' personalities clash, both with each other and with their own vices holding them back.

Red Dragon (Silence of the Lambs prequel) has a major character be a blind scientist(?) who doesn't have any real advantages because of it. Same for Dea in The Man Who Laughs. Both of which have movie adaptations too, but the books are worth reading on their own.

I don't use POVs much in the first place. Third person narration all the way. Sometimes in intermissions there will be focus on a different part of the world, but the main chapters have everything centered around the MC's actions. It might drift towards partial omniscience sometimes, such as...

An hour at most for a first draft on a keyboard. If I'm writing drafts on my phone, it can triple the time. As for editing and revising it to be up to my standards, that can easily take over two hours. I go over it carefully to a fault, changing single words at a time, even adjusting their...

I'm not a fan of yanderes. I don't mind them being in stories, I'm just going to cheer for whoever's fighting against them. If I had any thoughts beyond that, it would be "What do they want out of their target and why aren't they getting it by now?" A lot of yanderes in anime get really...

I almost always have it outlined for which major characters will die, when they will, and roughly how it will happen. It doesn't really feel like I'm condemning them. More like I'm writing the MC's biography and that time period just happens to be where a tragic end took place for their loved...

If you like something and feel it has some kind of deeper meaning, that's art. If you like it and feel there's no deeper meaning, it's entertainment. If you don't like it and feel it's trying to have a deeper meaning, it's pretentious. At least that's how people online tend to act...

Assign a subject to a fairly long test, at least an hour or more, where they are rewarded for correct answers and harshly scolded/yelled at/possibly even physically hurt like a small shock or loud buzzer, for wrong answers. Except that's just what they're told, while the actual criteria for...

Putting all philosophical and spiritual elements about the sanctity of art aside, I just hate seeing AI-generated images and stories. They don't even have to be specifically labeled as AI. My eyes just pick up on all the distorted details of AI images and it creeps me out. The writing also feels...

I'm still trying to figure out this webnovel format. It's a lot different from story blogs and forums I used to use. The story I'm posting on SH hasn't gotten any traction, and poking around has me making a few guesses as to why. Nonstandard cover art that isn't appealing, a prologue that asks...

My first real writing was some fanfic I poured my heart and soul into, not sleeping at night for a few days and only taking brief naps before going back at it. And it sucked, completely awful in every way. Everyone had power levels in the ten-quadrillions, fights lasted for thousands of epochs...

I wish Thesaurus.com worked well for me. I'm always stumped on words that it doesn't like to admit they exist. It heavily favors colloquial words and phrases above accurate ones. For example, if you look up "bewitch", you will never get "ensorcell" nor "sorcell" to appear in the list...

I just needed some website to start posting a story, and SH came up and wasn't RR. I heard RR uses your stories for AI training without a way to opt out. With all the other stuff I've heard about the place, I didn't see any reason to pretend the red flags aren't flapping loud in the wind. I...

Way back when I finished my first story, I was happy to move on to the next one. I tend to think of longer, slower plotlines that take a lot of investment to see them through. I also end up thinking of many, many more stories in the middle of writing one. I have enough restraint to not drop...

I just write how much I need to give the necessary information for the chapter. It usually ends up around 2.5k for less dense events, 3.5k for when a lot more is going on. Interludes and some very sharply written chapters can hit 1.5k or under, but those are the exceptions. For webnovels...