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I love rereading my work, especially now that my early chapters are fixed. I end up laughing at some parts, or tearing up with others. This story is one that has come to life for me. I took the quote "write the story you want to read that no one else has written" to heart. This has resulted in...

Alright, this is about stories, not writing techniques. In that case, I recommend the entire Trope Talks series by Red of Overly Sarcastic Productions. The point of the series is *NOT* to tell you exactly how to use various tropes, it is to talk about tropes and in what situations the trope...

How about a human from the Cosmere setting, who has managed to acquire (almost) all the forms of Investiture manipulation, and has been spending time Compounding relevant combinations. We'll assume they have a large supply of all the useful metals and alloys. on Almost: let's not deal with...

Please, for the love of everything, do not do detailed, step-by-step descriptions of a dance. Focus on either the character's emotional state and feelings, or the conversation they are having (depending on the type of dance) and interweave it with mentions of what is happening. Um, here, let me...

Well, if it's all three of them, then it's easy, they go together. If they are thrown individually into the scenario, and assuming it's just a dance: Mordecai will almost certainly end up taking someone. If his objective is to have a date for the dance, he will look for someone who needs a...

You forgot one: romantic relationship. :) In general, I prefer reading about relationships that are between equals, at least roughly. One may be more of a leader, and the other more of a follower, but that should trend more toward "You have good plans and I support your goals, so I will...

What? 2-3k words to get someone to cry, who is *expecting* you to get them to cry? That's a single chapter to introduce a character, get emotionally invested to a sufficient depth, and then kill them in a way that invoke the proper level of tragedy rather than throwing the reader out of the...

My wife reads and provides edit suggestions. On the day before the chapter goes live, I go through her edit suggestions while re-reading the chapter. This may cause me to add or tweak things not suggested as well as implement most of her suggestions. This sometimes causes minor typos to creep...

They are going to be various levels of secondary and background characters in my future stories. One of which involves their current, adopted teenage daughter, and a possible story that would focus on a not-yet-concieved biological child.

Option 3: It's always about execution. It can be done well, it can be done bad. I have no preference, given that the execution is good. Though this can also be done by using multiple PoVs.

Hmm, I might have something for you, pulling a piece of my own setup, though it is very different than yours. I work with light/darkness as balanced, in and of themselves forces that are not good or evil (though the goddesses in charge of both are good). Part of this balance, which your god...

What ever the time skip needs to be. My biggest time skip was about three months, because they were settled in for the winter. My next serial is going to have a fair number of time skips involved.

While I am using a simple doc to keep track, it's not *just* a document. It's my running Glossary, complete with dividing up into sections. First section: Divinities. Second Section: Mortals. This is then divided up into sub sections such as main cast, secondary cast, , X's family, Y's family...

Yeah, one of my friends is trying his hands at Goblin Girl evolution, inspired by this. I briefly toyed with the idea of trying a Faerie Girl Evolution, but honestly, I have enough on my plate at the moment.

As part of my world building, I decided that souls are a thing born of sufficiently complex/sapient minds. Life produces spiritual energy, and any living thing has a certain amount of spiritual energy around it. Complex life develops more complex spiritual patterns, and it is here that chi and...

I have not tried detailing the specific rules, especially not in a mathematical sense, but I do have some general outlines about how magic and science/technology interact. 1) The rules we know as science are the stable rules, with values that generally change slowly (as in tiny value drifts...

Edit: Whoops, I hadn't looked at dates or the second page of comments. Oh well. Oh, I think my story might work well for you. We have an Old Core, a New Core, and a Half Elf Warrior-Monk. All of them soul-bound due to circumstances, and figuring out stuff as the old core get a fresh start after...

Hmm, well, my story "No Need For A Core?" is romance heavy, and is closed door (so no explicit content). But it is not a romance about teens (though the sequel will focus on a pair of currently teenage characters, but it will see them through becoming adults, so not fully teen either). Mind...

You might want to consider looking into these ammunition types: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_metal_jacket_(ammunition) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armor-piercing_bullet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incendiary_ammunition Have every magazine loaded with, say, 45% AP, 45% FM, and 10%...

I slightly dislike including maternal status in the age categories, as being a mother is highly optional and shouldn't really be seen as a default. Anyway, I chose teen/young adult/middle adult, which fits my writing so far. one FMC starts at 36 (though half-elf, so effectively younger than...