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A 14-year-old orphan has found a new home with the MCs, and through them met some new friends. Slightly more spoilery, as in Patreon level spoilers, though not major plot spoilers:

If you can kill off a lot of them, then they weren't actually important, they were merely propped up to look important. IMO anyway. In short, I would never kill a lot of important characters at once, it degrades their value and devalues the importance the audience will assign to any future...

Hmm, as you seem to want an example of a fight with more people, let me give you a slightly edited excerpt of one of my earlier fights that I think came out rather well. For context: This is a dungeon delve, the weakest member of the party is a three-tail kitsune, this level is library-themed...

It's always settings/story dependent. For a Dungeon story, you can expect respawning as a default for inhabitants. For a few dungeon stories, it is possible for a dungeon to earn the ability to grant instant-rezz to delvers with some limitations. For my own work, I have established that there...

This is what I do. I do throw in some side content on the lower tiers, short stories or little excerpts from in-world writings, but it's the sort of thing that doesn't fit within a chapter framework neatly. On the highest tier, I do have the start of some stories not yet published, but with the...

I like this, it would make my life easier. I wish Royal Road would do the same.

So, just as a note regarding some of the suggestions to use Discord. Discord will kill image links after some period of time or usage (I am not sure which is the trigger). You'll end up with dead links if you use Discord, even though the image still exists in Discord. Though you can send...

This is pretty much what I do as well. It's certainly a viable workaround, but I can see it being more convenient to do it the way the poster described, especially for someone who is new to it.

I am planning some epilogues, but I need to be careful with them so I only tease parts of future stories and don't spoil anything. Example: Some of the young characters in Core will be older and in more central roles in another story, so I can't say too much about them. But certainly, there are...

Hmm, mine might work for you, though it doesn't start out as one. It's a Living Dungeon story and it is slowly developing into more. But to make sure that you are not disappointed: The kingdom-building process won't really be 'finished' at the time the story concludes. Once the major antagonist...

I literally started with just a scenario in my head and started writing it. I pieced together my antagonists from when the characters shared a bit of their histories with each other. I kept going from there. I keep adding to the world and creating new characters, most of whom take on a life of...

I start writing with just a scene or character concept in my head. I world-build by answering the questions that arise as I simply keep writing. I find my antagonists and major plot points from this process, and once I have those I can start sketching out the longer-term plot. But almost...

Often, though rarely flat-out crying. My wife has found me sniffing with watery eyes as I write certain scenes. I get emotional on the character's behalf. The bad events tend to be in the past, I like to write characters being on the upswing of things. But there is still a lot of emotion...

Here's what I would do: You have a gimmick, now you need 2-3 characters who will be the focus of your story. You don't need the story yet, you need to have an opening scene and a little bit of who these people are. At least one of them needs to have a close tie to your gimmick, and I recommend...

Well, I did mine as a triple protagonist story, the whole thing changes without any one of them. I'm not sure that there's a single key moment for any of them. They just work together so well.

So, my series has a central cast of an MFF thruple. it starts off as a marriage of convenience, though I acknowledge it was a bit of a rough start. I rushed it. Anyway, despite that rough start I do what I think to be a pretty good job in developing the relationship, including making sure that...

If I could go with my wife and our cats? Sure. They are my strongest sentimental attachment and I couldn't abandon them. Or, if it was a post-death option and being with my wife wasn't on the list of options anyway, then it would probably be the option I would take. It's not idyllic by any...

Do you copy and paste your chapter into the text field? Perhaps you should attach your chapter instead. I doubt they scan the files. I always end my scenes with a fade to black or just a bit of commentary about emotions and experiences, so it wouldn't affect me either way, but I switched to...

While I haven't gone that far, I do let dice decide some of my world-building. "I need this couple to have at least three kids, so that the character can have 2 siblings, but how many do they actually have? roll 2d4+1 for a range of 3-13, and I get seven. Okay, now I flip a coin for the gender...

When I started, I had an idea for a scenario in my head. So I wrote it, and I kept asking myself, "what would these characters do next?" and I kept answering that question. From that process, the characters eventually gave each other some brief answers to "so how did you wind up here?" I...