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As a follower of Connor MacLeod's teachings: once you're killed all the imitators you can be sure you're the original.

I'd be the half with the evil goatee.

Start en media res. Modern readers do not need prologues and probably do not benefit from exposition heavy first chapters where the protagonist experiences one of the standard fantasy openings such as exile or enrollment. This is more important in a web serial than a printed book or movie...

I read 5+ chapters of this ai-slop. Protag runs a post-apocalyptic food truck, explicitly because the gods want to fuck with him. Nubile compliant slaves on tap. Extras will crawl through a frozen landscape for days to buy two cans of hot food...

Variation is nice. Were you to take your favorite himbo/herbo/thembo and sub them in as the protag in all of your favorite stories it would get old fast. Theora from Let’s Not Obliterate, Orodan from The Stubborn Skill-Grinder In A Time Loop, Vorkosigan, Stray Cat, and Frodo each are...

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The most popular convention is to use the transliteration of the name to its romanized equivalent. Instead of picking a western name. "Zichen Wang" rather than "Peter Smith".

> If there's a book for thermodynamics then there will also be another book for breaking down thermodynamics into a form that can be said to be "basics of the basics". Here in the real world that's true, but students still need to work through the derivations and problem sets in order to...

> Unless they are protected by trademark, they are a target. No. Trademark is for like Pepsico's trademark on Pepsi. This is about image rights, aka rights of publicity. You can satirize, if you do it obviously, the deceased musician Michael Jackson. Likewise some living public person like...

Unfortunately OP, like many historical non/fiction writers, is using non-fictitious characters, with non-coincidental resemblance to actual persons. Secondly, it's best to bury potential out-of-story drama or timewasters, because it may discourage potential readers.

> The issue here is I'm not sure which to go with and I'm not sure of the legalities around using historical figures in fantasy-fiction. There's a few hundred legal jurisdictions involved, but if they've been dead for 70+ years, they (their estate's heirs actially) don't have legal standing to...

> You'd need to ask a quantum physicist that As of this moment, physicists do not have any way of testing the hypothesis that there are parallel universes. Meaning there is no reason to believe they exist. Besides vibes.

> Do readers even check the glossary everytime? Only under duress. They're harmless, though. Unlike prologues with no action or plot-stuff. On a related note, author's sorry-I'm-posting-late notes and other drama should be postpended to new chapters, rather than at the top.

Just jot stuff down on index cards. Or a text file.

My advice: spray blood from your eyes, flee, detaching your tail to distract them.

> I knew I should've time traveled and make esperanto peak Amazing food and friendly locals! ?

> What should an author never do? 1. Any kind of personal drama or apologies should go in chapter afterwards, not forwards. 2. Avoid exposition dumps unless they move the plot or mood along. Don't lecture me about the magical system, show me them trying to vaporize an orc. I don't care about...

Try Charlie Strauss's Laundry series. ?