Recent content by DoodTheMan

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 know what they were before that.

The Saibaman thing is so unfair to my boy Yamcha. He steps up to fight before Krillin because he feels suspicious. He literally saved krillin from the self-destruct and everyone laughed at him. And he beat the Saibaman too! SMH Anyways, for my part martial arts is sort of like physical poetry...

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 mind as a comic page, first and foremost. I do my best to give a detailed description of each panel as they appear without gish-galloping and going on too long...

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 power scale which is less linear and more nuanced. A good example of this is how Obi-Wan had much difficulty battling Count Dooku. Dooku practiced Form II which...

My two cents is that I would deepen the characters in order to avoid more ordinary "misunderstanding-type plots" that readers can find frustrating. For instance, the Godmother is attempting to match the Heroine with the Hero, but then she is executed. This results in the Hero wanting to kill the...

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 responsible in order to advance to plot or confront the conflict, lest they become unlikable to the readers. This can work both ways. Either you see a bit of...

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 family member was deathly ill. Its a pretty awful feeling that readers can instantly relate to.

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 slight deviation to the trajectory could be fine and doable, especially if, as you say, you have buffer chapters ready to post that you can edit. If you crank the...

There's an interesting phenomena that can occur when writing "trash". Because you're not putting restrictions or expectations on yourself, and you're not worrying about what readers will/won't like, your work actually turns out better as a result. The stress or enthusiasm of the author will show...

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 literacy, critical thinking skills, or the ability for in-depth analysis, and you end up with a person who reads like six paragraphs and goes "I don't like it...

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 out the story they usually have to introduce a cast of weaker side-characters to battle the villains and get their asses beat before the hero inevitably shows up...

I think drip-feeding the worldbuilding is the right way to go about it. You're not overwhelming the reader with information, and it allows them to wonder about things that you haven't gotten to yet, that you can explain later. My advice is not to be afraid of letting the characters do a little...

I tend to have the opposite issue, where I'm more worried that if I'm rushing and going too fast. Only after the fact do people tell me that my story is a slow burn and I reply with "oh, it is?" So I think I end up accidentally counter-balancing in the other direction. It makes me wonder if I...

I am cursed with having two black characters in my current novel who I can't really talk about too deeply at this time cuz it would be spoilers. Suffice to say that Nayantara and Manqoba both show up, kick people's asses, and refuse to elaborate further. I'm also attempting to write an isekai...

I'm not really a fan of litRPG stories, but I'm currently attempting to write one. I mainly dislike when the world is just inexplicably gamey, with menus, health bars, and experience points that are never or very poorly explained. It's also weird to me the idea that you could quantify a living...