Recent content by DismaiNaim

Not your question, but why wouldn't you want to decieve your readers?

hehe I found a typo in chapter I put out two years ago in which I accidentally gave a character the wrong color eyes. To fix that one little issue, I've now spent hours rewriting the first half of the chapter and haven't even got to the point where MC meets that character.

I'm walking into a conundrum where I've been spitting this story out for going on three years now, and in the process I've learned and grown considerably as a writer. I've gone back and rewritten my first 20 chapters give or take, and I'm proud of the result. The problem is that takes away...

Avoid any and all expository or info dump and have them interact with one another naturally. Let your audience infer from there. Here's an example from my own work. You can paint a whole relationship in only two lines.

I put sex in my story wherever I feel like it, and if the audience doesn't like it that's their problem. Seriously. It's NSFW, trigger warning all that shit so they knew what they were getting into. The only thing is I've learned to refrain from that stuff in the early chapters because if...

This could actually be interesting. MC kills a random dude for [reason] and gains [reward: think squid game] Then the tension becomes literally that: how to fight the urge to become a murderer hobo

I used to do this years ago. Not anymore. At first I felt pressure to stifle my honest opinion. Then one day I just couldn't help it and gave an actually honest review. Surprise surprise, I got retaliatory honesty.

1. He can't figure that out. 2. His friends, the people he cares about, the people who can't protect themselves 3. He thinks it's the enemy in the war he's fighting. 4. He doesn't.

I don't know about a user name, but I once named my C: drive "Dat Ass" because I wanted my pooter to ask about backing up Dat Ass

Here you go https://www.scribblehub.com/read/967246-a-place-to-bloom/chapter/967251/ Funny story, I also started this on the way back from Japan. In our case, the plane left late and we missed our connection in Toronto, only to get stranded for a week. On the plus side, I did take the kids...

What works for me is to write a whole lot of brain vomit, and decide from there what needs to be set up, what to develop, and what to throw away.

I don't know

I'd always wanted to write a book. Then one day, I sat my ass down and wrote.

Why choose? Why not all of them? I see no reason why sword,magic gender bending mmo have to be mutually exclusive

Thinking back, the most valuable feedback I've ever gotten was the same feedback that I basically rejected because I thought it was wrong. The worst feedback is the crap AI told me.