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    Need help with this story idea!

    I feel like the premise could be a bit problematic. Does she actually have to kill her variants? Is that an important plot point that can't be changed? It makes her incredibly unlikeable as a character. If it were just to explore those worlds and encounter those variants, maybe gaining something...
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    What’s some weird ‘magic’ you've read about, or imagined?

    I liked Vacant Throne, where magic was applied by handcards. You had to first create an immensely complicated pattern with special ink, which only a handful of people are capable of, because it fries your mind otherwise. Then your mind has to be able to access the meaning, or, you know it, it...
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    Thoughts on someone leaving harsh reviews on your novel?

    As a general stance, if you intend to do it for the author, I'd rather recommend a comment below the chapter or a direct pin. You can give fair critique and issues you see that you'd like they'd take care of. You need to consider, given the number of reviews, that a negative one is going to...
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    Sci-fi compared to Fantasy?

    I think just as in fantasy, an underlying understanding of your universe's foundation is required. Far more than a magical system in fantasy, you need to be able to explain what your scientific concepts base on. Be it teleporters, engines, weapons, all of this will be far more u to scrutiny than...
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    Air vs. Water, Fire, and Earth – Air Wins for Me!

    Water, with absolute certainty. Airi may have some good points, but she doesn't hold a candle to Io. hat woman is simply devious. Universes would collapse if she were to will it, but she doesn't, and so we live on. Well, aside from the poor girls she chooses as her water angels.
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    Random question chain.

    Hm, wouldn't switching heads be kinda related to her? But no. (I don't even know when she'd done it.)
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    Random question chain.

    In my novel "Slime Girl". What is Shari's (1st protagonist) most notorious trait/skill that isn't related to her body. Tip: I don't mean knowledge or dexterity, but something inherent.
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    Webtoon series are on the same level as fanfics.

    Let's be honest, in truth, we all want that rather the Xth otome-something with the same plot we can predict down to the color of the dress in the fourth banquet event, we want them to animate our stuff! At least I would! (My Eldritch school setting might do well, but rather I'd see my Slime...
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    Fanfiction.net and fictionpress has a commission scam problem

    You know, I'm not quite sure. I think my covers in itself are fine and somewhat established by now. I wouldn't quite know how I'd integrate further pictures in the already existing chapters. Also, I treat my writing mostly as a hobby, and would like to keep business stuff out of it. (More or...
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    Fanfiction.net and fictionpress has a commission scam problem

    I got called out on RR by someone trying to sell me art pictures. In hindsight, I might've been too polite, the way I discussed in a lengthy way how sorry I am that I currently can't take any pictures in my stories. Turns out, they just wanted to sell me stuff from their catalog.
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    Your Protagonist in Another Story

    I actually would love to see that, and it would be even lore-accurate. You see, my protagonist, Iori Nomia, is a pretty average 14-year-old girl who through circumstances, involuntarily got herself transformed into an Eldritch goddess. She can grow all kinds of fleshcrafts and even has her own...
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    Why do you want to live a long life if you are going to be financially poor?

    Let's be honest, economical success is nothing but an arbitrary concept stemming from the fact that we believe some people have more than others, based on the rules of society. Now if I were to make an educated guess, this whole concept may at most work for another fifty years. We got robots...
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    Where do you save your outlines, plans, plots, etc.? + a small apology

    I write on an old tablet and copy via USB on my PC. This way, I have it on tablet, USB, and PC. Every few months, I also copy on a second USB, and in addition, I have two folders I switch the saves, as I once had the issue that my text-doc was corrupted and I overcopied with it even my good...
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    Powerscaling: Tell me about the most powerful character in all your novel/s

    My strongest protagonist would be Iori Nomia, from my story Eldritch. She had the inherent ability of someone who travels in her dreams to eldritch planes, which usually simply ended with her dream avatar perishing and her waking up. Yet then she got to a particularly bad one, merged with a lake...
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    WTF Moments in Games

    I guess the closest I got in relevance to the quest would be Civ 6, where I was doing decently well, but for some reason, in the last time I found the last indio village in the last time. Those ancient people shared with me their knowledge, passed down by vocal transmission. This is how I came...
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    Thoughts about Author inserts

    Oh wow, I seriously didn't consider myself as such. Thanks, I guess. Just saying, regarding my self-insert, just look at the last line in the latest chapter of Eldritch and tell me I worry over nothing... Please? But really, I'm nothing special, just a completely average writer. ->Proceeds...
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    Thoughts about Author inserts

    I sometimes fear my characters in "Eldritch" inserted me into their story. The main issue is, I still don't know the conclusion, since as of yet nothing happened. On a slightly unrelated note, I'd say all of my characters base on a trait of mine that I can understand. I simply use that feature...
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    How many chapters at launch are enough?

    I usually do five. At least three to get started. Five to the end of the day would be good, and afterward, three to five more in daily releases, to show that you keep pushing out and aren't abandoning the work soon. Make it clear to communicate that you have a schedule. Supposedly most readers...
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    Do you use swears in your fantasy?

    When they come, they come. Usually only a WTF. Yet often weakened to What the heck/frick. Frickin' hell! It depends on whether the character is someone who would be swearing. Like the dockworker wouldn't really stop himself from any hard wrods.
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    Writing style...

    I often hear my style is unusual, but I can write well like this and am fine with my current audience.
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