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    How's my new cover look?

    If I understand the tags and summary correctly, the story is primarily about building new relationships that are healthier and happier than the ones he's leaving behind, and to a lesser degree about sex. Neither the title nor the image really convey that I think you could fix it by having one...
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    What Attracts You In A Book?

    In order of importance: tags + genres > synopsis > first chapter With tags and genres the red flags are just things I'm not interested in: School Life, Incest, Horror, Villainous Lead, etc. With the synopsis and the first chapter I also look for signs of low quality: lack of periods...
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    What songs are you listening to?

    sorrow's song by s j Tucker Sorrow is a child of dying stars with no one to tell her her name red in her cloak as a winter sun she wanders, not entirely tame are ye a child of stars dead and dying brought here from afar with whorls of fate upon your eyes and Sorrow in your heart?
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    Do you think that Hetalia has exclusive rights to the idea?

    Human personifications of nations have been around for centuries. Hetalia didn't come up with the idea
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    Add the ability to change font when reading

    Have you considered using a browser extension?
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    a cool line, or a favourite quote

    "No. Walk here, Anand. Look at this, the tribute to me. To the Free Queen and the Free Antinium. To…us. And remember that this is all that is left. Remnants of glory. Once—we were far greater. We came in so many forms and our numbers would have blotted out the skies. Look at this. And never let...
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    Tell me the most absurd theories you've ever heard (for fun)

    I've got three New chronology: a bunch of historical events actually happened in an entirely different time period, and massive swathes of history were falsified C decay: the speed of light used to be higher. It's a young earth creationist explanation for why certain faraway stars are visible...
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    Writing Writer returning to writing long stories, but... Multiple problems are up now that I'm back.

    I have several ideas for weaknesses: -a need for preparation -a bad personality (laziness, arrogance, impulsiveness, etc) -a lack of knowledge -a need for resources (where does he get his bombs?) -a curse or injury that prevents him from fighting at full capacity You could also maintain...
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    How do you do it?

    Most web serials have very few relevant characters, and either very generic or very simple worldbuilding. I do have trouble keeping track of plots though, especially with webcomics because they're uploaded one page at a time
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    Smut readers - what do you prefer?

    Based on reading smut for women and smut for men, I think generally people prefer that the character they don't relate to makes the first move. People want the other person to take the risk of putting themselves out there, and like to imagine the ego boost of the relatable character being very...
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    Favorite overused tropes

    Resurrection. It ruins tension but I just really like the idea of death being temporary
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    I'm curious, what writing software do you (yes I mean you specially) use?

    Notepad (on windows), one of several android apps called 'notes', focuswriter (on windows)
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    Mystery was written off as bad writing.

    How subtle you can be largely depends on how much trust readers have in your writing skills (on the internet that's not very much) In this case I would make it either very obvious that the goblins did something they shouldn't have been able to do, or the adventurer tried to do something they...
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    Is it okay to...

    You can write a work with Lovecraft's characters and treat it as basically original work, but it's best to acknowledge the way it's influenced by Lovecraft. It's the right thing to do, and it actually increases the appeal (I'm not sure if it's illegal to pretend that you created public domain...
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    I'm looking for something like, OPM or Invincible...

    She wears all black, controls bugs, and is so 'the ends justify the means" that she joins a gang within like five minutes of becoming a superhero
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