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    How do you deal with not falling asleep during translation?

    Just write the whole thing in Esperanto...
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    Is this real or not?

    Sadly, not an option (though, given the headaches my wife's doll club recently had with them, I can understand it not being an option)
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    Is this real or not?

    How many chapters long is your story? Is it near completion? On their standard website, they only have AI readers for "regular" authors. This does sound like what they approach established authors with (the only full cast or even multi-voice audio I've heard from them is Solo Leveling, though...
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    How was your first experience with publishing here?

    Don't remember which one I posted first or which one second. One of my first two (Strange Awakening) went very well (even spent part of a day on Trending), the other pretty mediocre.
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    A Natalie finally appeared :3

    Time for the Dollar Tree Pokeball... No need for a full powered one, let alone one of the specials...
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    Is this real or not?

    95% a scam - they only usually approach authors who either: 1) Enter a contest on their site and hit certain benchmarks in word count and listener retention or 2) Have a well-established book out there (My Vampire System, Solo Leveling). There is a small chance that this is legit, that someone...
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    The Difference Between Romance and Horror

    Forbidden knowledge. Characters going to places they shouldn't and discovering things they would not have otherwise known. Characters initially resisting their instincts, then giving in to them. Yeah, kind of similar.... especially if you ask Rosemary about her baby...
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    A Professional Inappropriate Question

    Not sure where it goes to now - used to go to a used book store chain, but they went out of business during or just before COVID and the state took over.
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    A Professional Inappropriate Question

    Or for those who DATED them... well, a Black Rose Society member, at least (they were one of the primary references used for the Fifty Shades books)...
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    Incest in Stories

    As long as you don't show it happening, just imply or even flat-out state that it did (this is one time "Tell Don't Show" is a good idea), you should be fine. Game of Thrones gave a decent template to follow for this. Then again, the Howard Families of Heinlein's Future History stories were...
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    A Professional Inappropriate Question

    Had a girlfriend who was into that stuff, found out I could write, and coerced me into writing it, with feedback on what worked and what didn't. Also read a few chapters in some of the "Steamy Harlequin Romance" novels my wife had laying around before we shipped a lot of books off to the...
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    Fiction Won't Publish

    Yep - went through that when posting "Diamond in the Rough" to Royal Road, and then when posting "True Blue" here (getting the story on RR took more steps but less time, oddly enough - to repost to RR took a full page form filled out twice over three days; I just had to send three emails but...
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    My account was banned

    So you're saying who wrote a completely original story using someone else's characters and/or location(s)? Unless you have the original author's permission in writing, or the characters are in the public domain (c.f. The Flashman Papers - started in the late 1970s, the author used characters...
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    Writing What have you learned about writing so far in 2026?

    That I need either to find a way to never sleep or to add five to six more hours to a day (that aren't spent working or surfing the net) to keep up with it.
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    Gaining views and active readers

    Frequent, public blood sacrifices to the demon god Vah'ni-tae.
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    Writing How to write a Character that is a poet?

    Actually, the definition of poetry is a bit fluid. I've seen "tonal poems" "free verse" "traditional rhymes" and even "ballad structure" poems over the years. Just show the character has a love of words and an artistic tendency and you should be fine.
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    Rating isn't Everything

    According to our cats, ratting is everything
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    Does writing novel longer make us lose our ideas and exhausted?

    The exhausted part is very real but running out of ideas doesn't happen (or won't for the remainder of my life, which is likely another decade or so). I used to be the regular game master in RPGs so always had to have an idea ready, even if it wasn't my own idea to start with, and that taught me...
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    Does writing novel longer make us lose our ideas and exhausted?

    Not here - but then I had people tell me how hard writing was, how impossible it was to make a living at it (they seem right on that point), etc. And getting involved in role-playing games helped a lot with the "running out of ideas" thing - whenever I don't have one of my own, I steal borrow...
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    What's the hardest part of being a writer to you, and what common writer woes don't make sense to you?

    Finding the time to write when I have the energy and ideas. Unfortunately, the three things tend to come at different times altogether... especially because, once I start writing (or editing even), I tend to get lost in the process, so can't do it when time is critical. A close second is...
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