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When does a character go from flawed to unlikable?
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The two main qualities are consistency and sensibility. Consistency just means that the character you're seeing play out in the story...
Feb 22, 2026
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How to Write Funny Scenes – Lessons from My Chapter “The people's architect”
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90% of AI Detectors are in themselves AI. 10% of AI Detectors just generate random numbers on the fly. They're the more accurate ones.
Feb 22, 2026
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How to Write Funny Scenes – Lessons from My Chapter “The people's architect”
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How to write comedy (my way): write something you think is funny. Read it again --> is it still funny? Good job, then it's probably funny.
Feb 22, 2026
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What's the best and worst feedback you've ever received as an author?
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The best feedback I ever received was that a dumb joke I slipped into the narration snapped the reader out of the trance he was in while...
Feb 22, 2026
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How did you start writing fiction in your early journey as a new author?
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I must have started writing somewhere around 2012. I had the pleasure of experiencing an 85mph car flip on the median of a highway, and...
Feb 18, 2026
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How do you choose/find titles for your chapter?
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I do it differently for every book. I used to forego chapter titles altogether, but I found that isn't good for web novels. For my...
Feb 18, 2026
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Happy new year on SH (vietnam edition)
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Happy New Year! :blob_cookie:
Feb 17, 2026
Dawnathon
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What's your biggest strength as a writer?
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My stories have always been unique. I always start with the idea of a setting and what major themes take place in it as the crux of the...
Feb 16, 2026
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When writing slow burners...
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That sounds like what would happen if you force a story to be a slow burn. My current story on SH took twelve chapters before the protag...
Feb 16, 2026
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What do you like to drink when writing?
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Gin is a magic potion that turns thoughts into words. Or into a mess to clean up if you drink too much of it.
Feb 16, 2026
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How did you survive all that homosexuality and horniness? Is that why you became pregnant that time in the campus?
Feb 16, 2026
Dawnathon
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How do you view your characters in your fiction?
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I haven't written self inserts since I was a kid. I treat characters now like if the setting I'm writing has a history, and I'm giving a...
Feb 16, 2026
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Illustrations of Sparkle Princess
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Hello! Here are two illustrations I've finished so far. Cover art and chapter 2. The second one actually took me 40+ hrs because I was...
Feb 15, 2026
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Is this good as a start point?
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There's nothing that stands out as egregious. Just go and write it out and see how it flows when you do. Worst case scenario, you get a...
Feb 15, 2026
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How to make a story really depressing in reality, but still be up-lifting and somewhat comedic?
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The simplest answer is that you don't combine the two. When things are dark, keep it firmly in a serious tone and don't try to lighten...
Feb 12, 2026
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