Recent content by StainedGlassThreads

Budget cuts.

Posted a new chapter: Vol 2 Ch 11 Sulfur and Flame! Very excited to post this one! It's been my favorite chapter written thus far, introduces my favorite character in my novel, and has some action sequences and pieces of artwork that I was very proud of. If last chapter was the point where...

https://archiveofourown.org/works/8014327/chapters/18346510 Just gonna quietly plug my own. Also if you read even a single Undertale fanfic, you've gotta read Inverted Fate. It's near the ending so now's a great time to read.

It doesn’t need to be perfect, it just needs to exist. Vomit up the most wretched dogshit ever to disgrace this sorry earth. Then make it somewhat decent with the magic if editing. But just get SOMETHING out. You can improve dogshit, but you can’t improve that which does not exist.

A Pokemon Mystery Dungeon fanfic on a since-deleted forum that had the title 'Only Once and Nothing More'. The fanfic was alright, neither great nor awful, but that title was excellent and has haunted me ever since.

I enjoy three types of villains. One, I enjoy manipulative villains who are major threats despite being physically or magically weaker than the protagonist, playing off their foe's weaknesses so well that their own true strength or lack thereof doesn't really matter. It's difficult to pull off...

Eh. I don't mind following around side characters around for a while. Often I really enjoy getting to see the world from new perspectives, or the protagonist from an outside perspective. I enjoy it a lot when, after spending a lot of time in a protagonist's head and getting to understand the...

Power of friendship. Not in a ‘it unlocks a super secret mega attack!’ way, it’s just really nice to see friendship focused on as I get older and still find myself thoroughly disinterested in sex and romance which get viewed as ‘more mature’. I’d love more mature works that focus on friendship...

I’ve been told I’m very good at distinct character voices. Which is good when I do as much perspective jumping as I do. I’ve also been told that I’m good with the first person perspective.

Readers are extremely picky about their prologues. It's the first thing they're expected to read, welcoming them to the world of the story, after all. A boring or nonsensical prologue can make them fearful that the rest of the story will be infodumpy or poorly paced. In my opinion, prologues...

My story came off hiatus today! :D

I've heard some advice that a good way to give characters flaws is to take their positive traits, and let the circumstances of the story turn them into flaws. Being well-prepared becomes paranoia. Being smart becomes being unwilling to admit one's own mistakes. Being level-headed becomes being...

I do volumes. Personally I find it a lot easier to write if, rather than doing it chapter by chapter, I do a whole volume of several hundred pages all at once. It just meshes a lot better with my personal writing style. For those curious how that works, I skip around the volume writing the...

Perhaps the survivors of the village manage to run away or evacuate before they're completely wiped out, rather than trying to fight the monsters head-on, or some of them fight/lay traps as a delaying tactic whilst others escape. The hero arrives, and upon seeing the village destroyed and empty...

I strongly dislike characters, in any genre but it tends to appear often in stuff like harems and isekai, whose only personality is 'well gosh golly gobsmackers! I have no personality trait beyond loving [character]!! I will do anything for their happiness, and am generally a walking piece of...