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There are even entire publishing companies that specialize in only publishing "sterilized" fanfiction.

No it is not. It often flows more naturally, but it can be tricky, and it can be VERY limiting. Granted, my three surviving stories...

Not gonna lie, the way you told us your experience, made me thinking that you're good company for story telling, along with Chicharon...

Ambitious but not unprecedented.

When someone told me that bg story I finally understood why they made it so cringe mysterious. BDSM hobby was just the replacement of...

Had to look them up. Frauds on that level appear in every industry. Some actually wind up with a real (though not exactly what they...

IIRC, they're more common in the "Russian Mafia" than in the true La Casa Nostra but do happen in both. Nah, I mean the anime looked...

That was pretty much how Fifty Shades of Gray came into being - the author read Twilight and thought: "What if they met as adults, not...

If I had to say, I had the complete opposite experience from you. I had the talent to do it but not really the drive. It took only a few...

I finished my long running novel, The Human Saint is Bored around December of 2024, having it started writing it May 2019. I guess the...

My first serious attempt at writing was met with a feeling of frustration and fatigue, as I knew it was the foundation of a fantasy...

Technically yes but I'm pretty sure everyone that does well in such events uses backlog. A lot of people also wait for planned releases.

The view counter isn't realtime; its cached (and probably for too long). Hearts are semi-realtime; refreshing the page will always bring...

My first story was done over a month ago. It has an ending. On one hand I was happy and felt fullfilled, on the other hand - is it...

I think it depends on the country and the time. Sometimes there are no problems, and sometimes I have to turn on the VPN.