Recent content by dukerino

Just not really a fan of them ?‍♂️

Royal Road's crowd is a lot more thorny and persnickety but they're also more vocal and much more likely to support a patreon. Before I was posting on there my patreon was at $350 a month or so. As soon as I started crossposting my work to RR it shot up to $2500.

God why do you YAP SO MUCH just say what you want to say. you don’t write like a Victorian writer you write like a 17 year old who watched master and commander once and started wearing a Tricorne hat to school

This is the first time I’ve ever heard that term and it repels me

That's one reason that most of the sexy depictions of these races make them shortstacks with big round boobs and butts. Clarifying that one would never mistake them for a child.

Whoa a bunch more guys

HFY baby

A lot of people jump into writing with a bunch of big ideas that have been colored by the genres they like, without any concept of the broader first principles of storytelling. You can tell when they ask for advice, and their questions are always about systems and powers and the use of the...

The average reading score for both fourth and eighth graders in 2024 was two points lower than in 2022 and five points lower than 2019. We're definitely trending downward. You could blame it on all sorts of things and tbh I think most of them are right. Lots of stuff contributing. oh well!

hey all. thought i'd put a thread here where i dump the pics I do as I dust off the ol' tablet after a period of absence. First up is a dump of character illustrations from the cast of PRINCESS OF THE VOID, my sci fi romance. The FMC and most of the cast are a race called the Taiikari--three...

Not only that it's one of the most popular genres around right now. Romantasy books have been printing money ever since Sarah J. Maas hit it big.

I love English because all the different languages that fell face-first into its melting pot give us different layers of meaning and expressivity--from Latin and Ancient Greek we can infuse our sentences with the stultifying air of the philosophical assemblies. From the Romantic languages we're...

A goal, and the drive to achieve it. Especially in webfiction I think a proactive character works better than a reactive character.

You know, I couldn't tell ya. Whole books have been written trying to quantify or define this sort of question; there's no real way to do it definitively and if you quantify it you have to look at market success which is often the furthest thing from indicators of actual quality. I suppose I'd...