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Oh no, ask the stuff is made up. Xianxia is not a single setting, there are lots of ways of interpreting it. Of your setting has a mostly unified culture, you probably want to create a uniform naming convention. Of your story is very diverse, then it would be more appropriate to have...

They don't pay authors anything, what are you talking about?

Option 2. It's what I have experienced most of my life. I fully understand that technically, option 1 has logic as a sort of 'floor zero', between positive upper floors and negative lower floors, but physically, it is the 1st floor that you enter. All other floors are counted from this floor...

Part of me says no; too much is in my head, and I know better than to try writing an outline. Outlining kills my motivation to write, as my brain feels like it has already written this, why are we doing it again? This is the same issue I have with editing, BTW. So, no one knows what I intend...

Yes; I got a response back from Podium and from 1 other publisher (amongst the several I contact), I approached an agent I knew from other work they'd done for someone else and said I have 2 offers. They took me on with a discount (10% instead of 15%) as I had done the first part for them and...

Well, we're a little late for that option, having already signed the contract and received the advance for my first book. They have also commissioned an artist on their dime and hired a narrator for the audio book, in addition to having hired a developmental editor. My agent was pretty happy...

I'm averaging about 275k words a year (I am a little past the three year mark and have 900K words written). That's a bit over 2 large novels a year. The time for a specific chapter? All over the place. Sometimes I write 2 in a single day, other times it takes me a week to write even one.

I tried to use metric, because as a concept it is certainly cleaner and better, but when writing and having characters estimate things, I was spending too much time and effort converting from my initial habit of imperial measurements and some of them felt more awkward to slide into a narrative...

I write on Libre Office. Nice simple word processor and spell checker. My first edit pass is when pasting it on to Royal Road, which I do via Chrome. RR is where I started, and I am only using Chrome for pasting into RR because for some reason pasting to RR via Firefox messes up my formatting...

On the battlefield, absolutely, and the same with a guard post or the like. And if you are traveling, then you can keep it on your horse, or use it as a staff/walking stick if on foot. But they would be an absolute pain to carry around inside a city or castle. 'Everyday wear' was a sword (for...

Once you have athleticism and basic martial prowess done, the differences between basic weapons becomes smaller. A knight was expected to be a master of sword, lance, mace, flail, bow (for hunting), and unarmed combat to the point of being able to wrestle and throw another knight when both were...

I very rarely come across a character who matches my morals/ethics exactly. But most characters who lean toward at least reactive heroism are people I could be friends with and I won't have issues reading about them. My definition of reactive heroism: they don't go looking for someone to save...

Hmm. Let's run with a variation that works better in my head: A character in my story is going to have memories of a past life awaken, which will be memories of me. Meaning they already are the future of myself, just neither they nor I know it until this moment. So the 'I' of now would merge...

Swords are the real world ubiquitous, full sized weapon. While the spear and its big brother the polearm dominate on the battlefield and in places where someone is standing guard, swords are the weapons that nobles and mercenaries alike (depending on local laws) will simply have on them at...

numbers 1 and 2 I am not so much in favor of. Prolonged embarrassment is something painful for me, including anticipation time, which is why I generally do not like sitcoms. Even when I recognize how well done it is, it makes me squirm and want to leave the room or otherwise block it out. The...

That's daffy vs bugs bunny-in-drag

The better version. :D

No, if physical writing was my only choice, I would never write. Pen and paper is physically painful for me, and always has been. Being gifted an electronic typewriter when I was in middle school was a life changer.

Of course I draw a blank when trying to recall a specific moment. But I know what types of scenes tend to make me tear up the most. The painfully sweet ones. Those moments of tender joy that sharply contrast something else previous in a person's life. I recall Beware of Chicken having...

The internal pacing of a chapter is based on the current events of a chapter, rather than the overall pacing of the story. If one were to look at a pattern reflecting how fast each chapter was, one would find that the fast paced chapters tend to be clustered together, as part of an ebb and flow...