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Imma be level witchu chief. It really doesn’t matter as much as you might think outside of certain genres. If you’re writing romantasy you’re gonna want to stick with female protagonists unless you are going all the way into Yaoi. If YOU are bored of writing women with their girly parts and...

It tried some new and different stuff. Not all of it landed. Also the story was super ambitious and they reworked the majority of it late in development when they were just trying to get this shit out. It was a decent game that was a casualty of troubled development.

I don’t call myself a chud, but I’ve been helpfully identified as such by people who disagree about appropriate priorities in video game development so I graciously accept the title.

As a clear example, if I were to write a married couple and the guy got his hands on a soft drink you’d better believe the woman in the couple would want a sip despite ordering water for herself. Possibly half the drink. This is a behavior from my own life that is amusing and relatable to many...

If I didn’t have enough faith in the writer’s ability to tell a story to read the part they put at the beginning I wouldn’t read their story. The entire question baffles me even after reading their response from the person who doesn’t read prologues. If someone has so little grasp of...

Maces and flails. Halberds. Crossbows. I’ll second the request for glaives. All of these have some representation, but I want MORE.

I mean going all in with detailed explanations of everything on every single translation banned would be nice but until we get a clanker in here doing moderation that’s way too much work to reasonably ask of anyone who isn’t making the big bucks to do it. Given that I also don’t trust clankers...

I haven’t had any feedback that was so great that it caused me to go out onto my porch and just think about life for a minute. I’ve had a lot of good feedback but mostly it was about me not being clear about something so I went back and fixed it. Worst feedback is unquestionably the people...

I get the impression you are a pantser based on your description so I’ll tell you what I do. Have short term goals and work towards them while you are working on the current task at hand. As you discover what needs to happen next in this chapter, keep in mind what you want to have happen in 5...

Wait, including something in my story doesn’t mean I endorse it? I guess I’ll need to find a better way to communicate my love of racism, slavery, abuse (spousal and otherwise), unsafe human testing, torture, cult tactics, and fascism.

How did you start writing fiction in your early journey as a new author? I didn’t start with long form fiction, I started as a dungeon master running campaigns. Met my wife that way Did you just write a story that you want or did you write a story that communicates effectively to readers...

Just be sure not to overcorrect. I was being descriptive, not prescriptive. I was describing market forces and their effects, not ART. You write what you want to write, not what you perceive as what people are asking for you, or you’re no more than a clanker. And trust me, AI will get better at...

I have heard a theory that gay people are just different/unknown enough for horny straight people to like to project fantasies onto them when it’s convenient. Girl on Girl with strap on (or futa) is hot because guys can have their smut without any guys involved. They just have one of the girls...

Three options, if we are talking about what works in terms of what can be successful. None of these is a moral endorsement. 1. If you are pandering, then them being gay or whatever is a core aspect of not just their personality but the primary lens by which the story itself analyzes everything...

I shall be the Muggle Studies teacher at Hogwarts. I could not possibly do worse than the current curriculum. I will cram an extremely basic education in math, science, and history into one period a week and casually shame any kid who complains about it being hard by pointing out that basically...

Life goes on even when horrors happen. I’d say it wouldn’t hurt to have at least occasional acknowledgements from funny man that he is damn well aware of the fact that the world sucks and makes a conscious choice to make it suck less in both word and deed. That way he’s providing humor but he...

Honestly both of them are moving too fast imo without other context if this is literally the first time we see Harry, but I prefer the second one stylistically. The first uses more words to say the same amount and while they are pretty words they aren’t really all that much better. Clearly...

Looks like… 2022, at the age of 28, almost entirely on a whim. I then proceeded to vomit out a 330 chapter stream of consciousness monster of a fanfic featuring lots and lots of smut, mind control, kingdom building, and way too much book keeping. I have no idea what the fuck I was thinking. I...

Despite the inclusion of blackjack and hookers we must now have a two page spread explaining the source of the wood used to make the sign on the front of the brothel and the local drama around a card game last week, or it isn’t really a rewrite of Tolkien.

Then no. It feels like the height of disrespect to do such a thing to a story I actually like. I’m someone who complains about media a lot, but actually changing someone else’s work when I liked it? Hell no. Change an adaptation that I feel was done poorly or which completely dropped the ball...