Recent content by CubicleHermit

I have a high-level plan, but it's just rough milestones for the most part. This particular arc I've got more of a plan, but it's still like "a couple of bullet points per chapter" and not like a detailed outline. I mean, I have some kind of high level plan for the second school year, should I...

Not one but three new chapters added this week, with I hope several more to come soon. We see more of the bad guys, the maybe-it's-a-talking-cat-maybe-it-isn't? and a new, obnoxious faculty member. Joel and Mark face their first midterm exams in the new world! Will Joel actually get to know...

If we count Macek-red (heavily edited stuff for US audiences), Star Blazers probably although it may have been Battle of the Planets. If we count original stuff, we had a Japanese animation club (no, we didn't know in 1988 to call it "anime") at my junior high school, and the first thing I...

Been very backed up, but just posted another chapter. Considered this the end of Part II, but it's an arbitrary breaking point because it's gotten too long for the Word doc and am just about to start a new arc.

Governments/constitutions rarely last that long, but there are exceptions. Also, given the influence of Japanese media, the fact that Japan has had the same dynasty nominal heads of state for ~2600 years (according to tradition) or ~1500 years (verifiable history) is probably influential. A...

Given that my main story is a combination rom-com and mystery, a lot depends on how I'm isekai-ed. If I'm isekai-ed back as my almost-50-year-old self, I'm not terribly employable with ~30 year newer technical skills on either side of the gate, the things I know as author knowledge aren't going...

Depends on the AI, and the context windows are getting larger all the time. Claude is the clear leader there, with their paid version able to get to 200k tokens or somewhere between 125-150k words. Without further prompting, it's a lot more analytical and a lot less creative than ChatGPT, so...

Trademark and copyright are two different things. Trademarks don't expire, as long as they're defended. Trademarks are also specific to specific sorts of business or goods. https://tmsearch.uspto.gov/search/search-results shows 1500 results for Cthulhu, and the closest one owned by Chaosium...

I read a bunch of writing books back in high school, and in terms of technique the best I found were the "Elements of Fiction Writing" series. I revisited a few of them a few years ago when I started writing again a few years ago, and the ones I reread and remember liking were...

If you're using an Abrahamic god, well, yeah, but then there's only one of them. Or one of them per universe or something. A lot depends on the cosmology; it's pretty easy to interpret some of the lesser deities of Greek and Roman mythology where they were roughly that. For that matter, while...

Definitely prefer a distinct ending, and ideally, some direct depiction of the impact the protagonists have had on their own lives (or the world, for epic stuff.) I always liked the conventions some movies and video games did with the "where are they now?" shorts at the end, which can be...

How I see myself: How I'm pretty sure others see me:

Favorite character overall, or favorite character to write? I've found my favorite character to write is one minor antagonist - my story is both a slice-of-life school story and a bigger fantasy epic in the background. The social antagonist is so fun to write because the stakes are so low - I...

Of course it's ideological, and several other major world religions (as well as secular/scientific beliefs, of course!) each have their own very different ideas of what the truth is. Whether it's intended as parody or not, a lot of it works as one. Ultimately, it's up to the mods and not me...

First, thank!!!! Will have to give some thought on how to introduce the synopsis without leading with the quote. :) Second, that is exactly @Hans.Trondheim 's work as he very kindly offered to create it when I first came to Scribblehub (my original was made with MangaMaker Comipo and horrible...