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I understand how it can be tempting to follow trends because you also want to be recognized as a successful writer and that seems like the easy way. Thankfully, I already knew that I often have trouble doing things that I *want* to do. Trying to get my ADHD self to write a story I *don't* want...

Hmm, I should try it again. I wanted multiple glossaries, one per book, so people wouldn't be spoiled about later characters. My attempt to make multiple glossaries seemed to confuse it and it stopped saving new ones, they would disappear after I saved them.

Specific world building is going to vary. In mine, the gods who built the universe (and there are a lot of them) do NOT fight because they want the universe to remain intact. The rest of the gods would immediately gang up on them to suppress both combatants to minimize violence. An all out...

In my world building, superpowers would be a manifestation of innate magical abilities. Cultivators/super martial arts fall here as well, as do psionics and so on. However, it may not always appear to be magic to people with a limited understanding of it. A basic "anti magic" field would only...

Aside from sad/tragic stories, well, I guess it matters what you mean by emotional. If a story partially centered around a three-person relationship with lots of uplifting moments and found family building such as a girl's fifteenth birthday party with her adoptive family (she'd been orphaned...

Well, I'm not sure I would agree with 'perverted' as being a correct adjective just because she pursues her desires; methodology and limits are certainly part of the equation here. Perverted would imply being willing to do something dubious or immoral (see tropes about perverted guys sneaking...

Well, while I don't have any smut per say, that's because I fade to black. I think you will find Mordecai to be a very level headed and confident MMC, partly because this kicks off with a power reset and his personality is still that of a demi-immortal who has had the time to chill (ignoring...

Oh jeeze, how would I pick just one? Um, I'm going to pick a category of them: Fuyuko PoV chapters. She's a secondary character who is introduced later on and a fourteen year old (at time of introduction) who had a good life until she was orphaned at the age of eight. Things became worse then...

Alright, since we are going right past protagonists and on to cosmic entities, let's start with the deity who shares my user name: Zagaroth. Er, long story short: shared roots to a D&D character I made in the 80s, and was my first username in 1995. Anyway, on to the present... In his current...

Hmm. Mordecai and Kazue I would enjoy the most because they are fellow geeks and bookworms (and examples of how this does not mean you *have* to be socially awkward). But I could enjoy conversations with most of them, even if it wouldn't be as much of a close bonding. Satsuki would be...

I don't so much try to hide it as make sure I don't let any of them intrude on the story. Too much. Though some are integral to the story...

If you want to do something I have never seen anyone do: Old Age Dude had a rough life, had to work even when he should have retired, dies in like his 90s in the hospital. Gets offered a chance to have a simple life as a farmer in a peaceful area... and things then go sideways.

I'm not sure about my hourly, but on a good day I can write a 3k-4k chapter (most of my chapters are 2k-3k though, and usually take 2-3days) It's about energy levels and focus for me.

Well, one thing you could do would be to write in your preferred style in order to maintain focus on where you want the focus, and then create a copy of that document. You then edit the copy into a more traditional style and publish that, which far more people will find casually readable...

Well, it looks like you are a discovery writer, but you are creating characters who make strange choices. So, I think you need to go back and start asking yourself 'why'. Why did they break up? Why would this cause her kill him? Why does harvesting his organs seem like a good idea? Why is she...

Well, based on another comment, it sounds like you write in 1st person. For that, I am going to point you at Jim Butcher's Dresden Files. While I am not claiming that he is a master of combat prose, he does a solid job and Dresden does have to fight multiple opponents sometimes. Personally, I...

I use Grammarly and ignore most of its suggestions. The decision on Grammarly vs ProWriting Aid: I could install Grammarly in just my browser and it only affects my browser. ProWriting Aid wanted to run as a separate program that wanted to look at *every* text field, which sometimes screwed...

Well, it's only been out for two months and many of us have all the quests complete (though I still need to craft one more piece for the final five-star free outfit, but there's currently no quest waiting on that). So there's a very finite amount of story content, but this comes from someone who...

Regarding backstory; if the character is not going to be seeking a way home, one can use a situation where they were already prepared for death. An old man reaching his end in a hospital bed. A young woman who has been slowly dying for most of her life (I am using this one, and ties into why...

Funny enough, though my world is moderately serious (Or at least not cartoony/comedic), there is a canonical path through which such an event could occur. This would absolutely be Li's fault, though there's no point in getting mad at him. He's not capable of understanding that he has this much...