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I'm not sure if that's a great example. Maybe with more context it makes sense, but "Everything's fine so I'm leaving" leaves a very big question of "why?" It's more important for any deep understanding of a character. When Jimmy Bob Jones hears a sound at night, the first thing he does is...

5/10, painfully average Her rebirth was near a village of fluffy kemomimi and even still she felt zero attachments to the world and her new life. She had nothing particularly impressive besides a slightly better body, and waking up in such conditions left her detached from the world and her new...

Just look at almost every "it was all a dream" type of twist endings that ever existed. It's not just a bad ending, it retroactively ruins the rest of the story by making it all pointless. There are some exceptions, but they are few and far between. (Usually then the story was simply not...

Sorry about that. The link is fixed now. I'm not even sure how that happened.

It's a case of apples and oranges there, isn't it? While you can use the word "fight" for both, there's many differences between groups waging full scale warfare and two individual characters in a duel. So many differences that it's hard to imagine trying to write both the same way. With...

Hello, I had written a fight scene recently that I'd like some feedback on. You can find it here. Just for some context, the protagonist is the titular shapeshifter, but it's a slow process. She can prepare things in advance, but it can't create much on the fly. She has used it to give herself...

I have never decided against reading a book because of an AI cover. I've also never decided to start reading a book because its cover was commissioned art instead of AI. The most text-heavy medium tends to have a lot more importance in things besides one or two pictures. Now if there was AI...

I would say that I don't, but there was this one chapter where I included a link to a song by an anonymous friend and the canceled project I worked on with her. It might count, but that depends on your definition. At any rate, I put it at the end of the chapter in an author's note, with the TMI...

Some visual novel called The Masquerade or something similar. About some courtesan guy and the place he works for. The writing itself wasn't the worst thing ever, but the transitions were. There simply wasn't any. A character would say one line, another character would say a different line...

In the nicest way I can say it, a ton of male smut writers I've seen are writing from speculation, not from experience.

Makes me think of The Pedestrian by Ray Bradbury, where a man is arrested by an automated police car for the crime of walking outside, which only a crazy person would do rather than staying home and consuming media. Heck, I even got not arrested, but "police escorted" back home once for sitting...

I just tell people "Glad you enjoyed it" if they were positive and "Sorry you didn't enjoy it" if they were negative. There's really nothing to gain by arguing over these kinds of things. If they have a legitimate question or misunderstanding, I'll clear that up or assure them it's addressed in...

The third flare we had lit up the night sky. We waited, but no one answered our call. Our eyes closed warily beneath laurels of bay. The second flare we had went up the following night's try. We waited, and marauders answered, looming tall. Our eyes closed painfully as everything was taken...

Ehh. I like to think I'm not bad at that kind of writing. It's just on the creation side of things, it is the more "difficult" of the options OP asks, in terms of having to step back and rethink the approach rather than it not needing any extra consideration.

It's always a struggle writing masculine male characters for me. The stereotypical macho man or stoic strong silent type, I have to write them the same way you'd write an orc or goblin or some other fantasy creature. I know guys like that exist, I've met them. I just can't get in their heads and...

Seduce the protagonist to become their love interest. Then even if you die, you'll just be brought back by the power of their plot armor. Seducing a god to receive their personal protection can also work, but you're almost definitely going to be kept at their heavenly home and not let out much...

In the medical textbook, I recalled a disturbing image of what was known as a Rat King, all members of which were stilled in death. I could not look away the mass before me, of what would then be called a Kitsune King, and it was far from layng still.

Just out of curiosity, do you have any helpful examples of actual glossaries here on SH? I looked through several trending novels to see what they use it for, but I've only seen it go unused or be used for things like character art.

I've had the idea to make an ongoing commentary of my works as to share and discuss different topics and inspirations. Especially things the average reader would probably not know about (one early example being the concept of mythopoeic thought). It wouldn't be necessary to understand the main...