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There's so many potential causes for Procrastination One trick I've been using to help me overcome it is 'mirroring' of sorts. I have a voice chat set up in my discord where I head in, mute myself, and play music via a Discord bot. The point of that room is for any other writers to join in if...

Your equipment would be considered part of your strength (barring scenarios where your equipment is ineffective)

I am not sure about swapping perspective that way. Clearly, it can be done as it has been done, but it's not my style personally. I suspect it is harder to pull off well if you are using first person, so I would recommend using third. You can certainly swap perspectives, I tend to rotate...

In my experience, there are a few tricks to writing a smart character, for at least some values of 'smart', as 'smart' covers a lot of different traits that are often independent. Well-educated: They will tend to use slang less and precise language more. They will not use larger words to show...

*Sees title* Oh hey, I have... *sees description, coughs* Erm, or maybe I don't. There's rather little religious intolerance in my setting. The strongest deities were all part of the creation process and are allies. Communication with devoted priests is clear enough to ensure this is known...

I do not know one way or another for bots, but I do know that there are people who follow stories via bookmarks and stuff rather than making an account. I do not know if anyone does that for SH stories, but I know people do that for RR stories. One of said people is in my Discord too. :)

Everything is in there. I'm 50, and when I was young I used books as my primary form of entertainment and always had *at least* one paperback on me. So I have a lot of influences I can not name. But I can give you some examples: I have a side character named Gil in my story, and he is an...

Yeah, I love learning *about* languages and how they work etc., but I have little talent for actually learning other languages. Creating one's own language is Next Level. But I do delve into random bits of lore. And if I talk about the properties of a real world gem, you can be fairly certain...

Thank you. :) But I feel that sometimes being too self-indulgent often affects the quality of a story, so I am self-regulating there. Also, I have more ideas than I will ever get written as-is, filters are useful. :D

I'm not doing much in pop culture references for my (currently unpublished) reincarnation story, but I am having fun with translation issues. She's been gifted with knowledge of the local language, but while this includes grammatical rules and such, it does not always provide more contextual...

I voted "winging it" because that was entirely how I started, but as I wrote I learned more about my world and character backstories and I now have at least a broad outline of where my story is getting with several goal posts along the way. It's just not written out and some aspects are...

I scrap all the ideas that are too self-indulgent in certain fantasies. That still leaves me with a ton of ideas, and I can sometimes salvage something out of the scrapped ones that is still worth working into a story.

I saw the title and I thought it was going to be all bad. At least there is some good news in there. When you feel that burned out, rest is the only answer. Productivity comes with a painful price for our brains.

I use Grammarly free. I don't use premium A) I am tight on money and B) given how often Grammarly is wrong on what it does suggest (No, I do not mean 'delivers' instead of 'delvers') I am not inclined to pay for more of it.

I know just enough about such things to not be surprised by what you described. I'm a straight CiS guy, but I learned a long time ago how to listen. I am fairly certain that this is why I have been happily married for over 11 years. :)

Fair, but fantasy worlds also tend to have deep histories and thus nations/states that were stable enough to keep thousand+ year old records. If they were developed enough to have medieval-esque castles and high-quality steel millennia ago, some semblance of that rigor should have had a chance...

Yes, but in a world with magic, it actually works, so it's not the same as RW alchemy (which mostly did not work). And Alchemists know how to make it work. So that means they have learned the rules. That's the thing with a world where magic is reliably repeatable. If it is repeatable, it has...

Every single chapter exists on my personal PC, Royal Road, Scribble Hub, and Patreon. Sometimes in multiple versions (such as when I compiled a volume into an epub and put that on Patreon for easy access.) I also occasionally send important notes to myself through a private channel on my...

I am a touch analytical once someone starts describing ingredients. Monster Tongue: What constitutes a monster? does the type of monster affect the potion? are there creatures that some consider to be monsters that others consider to be people? General: The potion is magic, thus it needs...

That's what I have been working with this whole time. I'll also share documents to myself via my discord server if I need to work from another machine for a while.