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Probably Iori from Eldritch. I know, taking the OP outer goddess isn't all that novel, but it's mostly for the fact that she got that sense of freedom. She can be anywhere and simply do or change things as she pleases. Which is why I love to imagine her entering certain story worlds and simply...

Dystopian stories where nothing gets better. Be it personally dystopian or societal, both are pretty terrible. I like the idea of overcoming odd and am usually empathetic to characters. However, the idea that they just get tortured more and more is pretty disturbing. Often, I read on, in the...

Probably a little off-topic, but the advice that helped me least was to have a concept. To only start writing if you got the whole thing planned through. Also, to treat the first story as training and abandon it afterwards to get started for real. Would probably never have started if I had...

To be fair, isekai is also pretty feudal Europe. Often rather poorly, but swords and stone castles are not an asian thing, and anything with fantasy races is usually derived from classic Western fantasy. In this sense, as my world is currently mostly place for different combinations of European...

Not exactly writing those myself, but stuff I noticed: 1. Messing up the numbers. Of course, that goes also for losing track of them, but I mean this more as in having a concept that works for the world. Numbers should go up (Although, alternatively, your system could just revolve around...

Me, sitting at currently 5 stories, not having some more on hold. :blob_whistle:

Do I need to feel bad about my 5k words a week? I don't manage to do much more (not including editing). And over Christmas and New Year I even took two weeks break from writing!:blob_teary:

Oh yeah, I absolutely sign that. The worst are those that refer to some sort of ethereal or mythical example everyone is expected to get. "So be calm like the Dusk Dragon, soaring over the radiance of the Sixth Heaven Sky, and as ravenous as the Aparian Beetle, gnawing on the roots of the world...

1. Female MC, yet more importantly, that it's not tropy. It needs to have a unique selling point in the synopsis. Something interesting that makes you engaged with thecharacter. Just saying "character X is going on adventures/having a romance situation/needs to achieve Y" is pretty...

What exactly does one have to do to get on that list? (Asking for a friend)

Now I'm feeling bad. I only manage 5k words a week. And that's if I have a decent one.

I guess for me, it's if I don't like the given rules of a story. A character can be consistent, if they're a total asshole, then I don't want to root for them. The same is with established rules in a world. Some stories have such a bleak setup that no adventure can ever make it better. My main...

Certain songs help me immerse in action scenes, as I can imagine certain characters to dance around attacks and move smoothly. This kind of vivid pictures can be a good groundwork to describe a scene better. On the other hand, for pure concepts I don't get much value out of music. There I'd need...

I'm asking this more for personal clarification: My MC in my story, Slime Girl there's girl-shaped slimes. Romance is not the focus, but she got a dynamic with the second MC. Does this fit any bill, because I personally don't think too deeply about this while writing about non-human MCs.

I can say, the two things I dislike most about Xianxia novels would be dismissing characters that become too weak. At some point, everyone is a god, and mortals can be completely disregarded, which I find rather poor in terms of world-building if mortal influence just doesn't matter. The other...

Handsome Jack from Borderlands 2. Easy to hate, but still so good to listen to. And dangerous as a character, instead of being all passive the whole time.

What makes the whole genre idea a little bit difficult is how there's the trope that children are in stories usually supposed to be better than theor parents. They are thought as the beings who will continue the legacy of the parents. Yet if they do, if they become better, you got the issue that...

The first stories I ever made up were about a race of cosmic Water Angels, who serve as agents for an all-powerful water goddess. I think in my head would be worth an anthology of 25 of them. Now I used some of their names for half of my MCs in the stories I actually published here (I mean, why...

It likely depends. I got one kill for a more important side character. Yet in general, I fear killing off the cast is doing more harm in the long run. For some reason, some say that killing main characters is a brave choice, but to me, this seems in many cases like a stupid decision in the long...