Find the first time in your story he uses his powers and start there.
No one wants to read a story about a guy who gets cool powers and then cries about it.
I never got why living that long was an huge advantage. Peoples memories aren’t good enough it’d really matter and how useful is ancient knowledge anyway?
“Ah I did electronics 50 years ago, I can help”
No you can’t, you’ll remember fuck all about it and are 50 years out of date.
“I studied...
I make about $350 a month, which ain't bad!
It's nearly all Scribblehub because the only other place I crosspost is Ao3 which doesn't allow Patreon promotion, though I've branched out to a few other places lately.
I have a £10 tier that lets people commission 5k words off me a month with 5...
Hard Magic means you have a clear idea of the limitations of the magic system.
Harry Potter can have spells do anything, and we only really learn about them when people use them; it's not hard magic at all.
I actually disagree a little with the video; Hard magic doesn't need to be rooted in...
It’d be superheros or mages depending on the style.
We wouldn’t invent a whole new term for a thing we already have a word for.
Same way we’d call zombies, zombies and not Walkers or whatever.
Gary Stu is redundant, it only came about because some people saltily insisted only women could be a Mary Sue. Everyone knows what Mary Sue means, there's no confusion if they're referring to a male character.
The plot twisting to excuse the MC’s shitty behavior. If they’re always right to act like a dick I find it really irritating
I think this rules out basically the entire of Scribblehub
You have to be under 2k Readers and have a rise in readership.
This means stories under 2k readers keep bouncing back onto trending. Some have been doing it for months lol.