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I never used to. Ironically, I've started using them ever since people started talking about seeing them as AI editing. I didn't even...

The Saibaman thing is so unfair to my boy Yamcha. He steps up to fight before Krillin because he feels suspicious. He literally saved...

I'm a very visual person, so I don't know if this will work for you the way it does for me. I tend to imagine the action scene in my...

I'm personally a big fan of the "Hobbit" school of action scenes, where they happen entirely off screen, to other people, except where...

I think a great example of a complex power system is Star Wars. Each Jedi's style, personality, and connection to the Force result in a...

There are plenty of military juntas and dictatorships that you can look at for inspiration, but it can be easy to write a paper-thin...

You can start by reading Prussia's history. It's one of the best examples of an "army with a kingdom."

My two cents is that I would deepen the characters in order to avoid more ordinary "misunderstanding-type plots" that readers can find...

Same as above. You should still write it if you feel it resonates with you that much, but it's not excessively dark or, as you put it...

I think that they can be extremely relatable to a fault. At some point your character needs to be at least somewhat, a little bit...

All I do is just describe my actual anxiety into words. Just think about how you would feel if some criminal was targeting you, or a...

Personally I wouldn't risk changing the work very much based on comments. If you think of your story like a moving vehicle, then a...

There's an interesting phenomena that can occur when writing "trash". Because you're not putting restrictions or expectations on...

The internet is already a fast-paced, impatient environment in the first place. Mix that with the fact that a lot of people lack media...

I generally don't enjoy OP protagonist stories. That can work fine in a slow, military story because in order to build drama and draw...