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I'm not sure if you don't understand the implication, or if your moral compass is so whack that you think that people chosing to something dumb like not treating their own cancer is the moral equivalent to the horrors that Dr. Mengele and Unit 731 performed on people. The implication is that...

You commented the thread, which put it to the top of the forums. I then read and reacted to people. Stop being purposefully stupid.

Knowledge being thrown around without understanding the implications of how that knowledge would be acquired. School systems in our world have really made most people believe that knowledge is just given and easy to come across. Like how many people drank lead because pipes were made of it...

Space it out as much as you need to keep it regular. If that means once a week, or once every two weeks, then schedule it. Keep it regular, same time, same day. Convey that information to your readers as well. Be aware that the longer your story gets, the slower your writing speed will...

I'm lucky enough to live in Missouri, where we have some of the best castle doctrine laws in the world. If I so much as percieve a threat to my property, I can escalate the situation. As a result, in my neighborhood at least, theft is pretty much isolated to power tools in garages getting...

You want at least 14, if not 21. To get a decent flow of readers early, you want to have chapters coming out daily for a minimum of two weeks, at the same time each day. Then you can slow down to whatever your intended release schedule is.

Generally, I think a house feeling lived-in basically means that simple shores are done, but there are obvious larger tasks that need doing. There aren't dirty dishes and clothes piled up everywhere, but there may be stains in the carpet, a cluttered garage, or a wall that could use a new coat...

The implication from the rest of the thread is that either you think I should, or you misinterpreted me saying that "I dropped kingdom building novels" for those reasons meant that I think everyone dislikes them for that reason. I don't think that. I said, "My target audience feels the way I...

Then I would just be writing a worse version of your story, rather than my own story. That is the point of this. Word count is a limiting factor. I cannot both write what I am writing, while writing what you are writing, all at the same pace and in the same physical space as just my novel...

You completely understand the point I was (apparently very ineloquently, though) trying to make. I have conversations on RR with commenters about intricacies of engineering and clever solutions to problems experienced in the story, the story is what it is, and the format is what it is. I think...

Some other people have argued the review shouldn't exist. I never said that, nor did I say it was bad. It's a good review. The point of this post is that even good reviews can be detrimental in crafting the future of your story. You're the best to read this because you seem to be conflating...

Fair, and perhaps I misinterpreted your initial comment. I'm not upset about the review, nor do I feel the need to be validated by the forum community. I'm content in my story, and don't need consoling or encouragement on it. The review simply catalyzed me to write something I'd been thinking...

You've missed the point of the post then. Again, it's not about this particular review. I even say it's well written and thought out in the initial post. It's about the overall conditionality of reviews and a bigger problem in the industry. Your mindset is flawed related to the situation...

The fact that reality TV, soap operas, smut, porn, and Stephen King are all incredibly popular show that the masses want slop. They have plenty of slop. In fact, they've been turning things like Ghost Busters, Star Wars, and even Marvel into slop for a while now too. There is a whole slop...

I think it's easy to say that what they've offered is a way to "Help me improve", but that depends on what my goal is, and how I evaluate what I'm doing. If my goal, as an author, was to get as many readers as possible and be #1 (aiming for a Stephen King like position), then absolutely, this...

I mean, you only have my word on this, but yes. Like 2 days ago I watched a video about Smiling Friends that went down a similar vein as to why many series (like Rick and Morty) end up going down paths that alienate their audience in the long run, and how they hoped it wouldn't happen to it...

I am, and have always, acknowledged that my novel won't be the next big hit, and am pleasantly surprised by how well it is doing. I've had 1-star reviews that actually hurt, and those made me huff copium. This one triggered the part of me that has been upset with mainstream entertainment for...

There is politics, but if all you're doing is talking politics, then you aren't actually building a kingdom, you're just conveying that someone else is building a kingdom, and you'll give general updates. American politics is filled with talkers who do nothing, and I hate it. People want...

I'm not even really upset by it, since I already have a large enough following that it doesn't matter. Even less so since this is a topic that I've thought about many times before, but hadn't really bothered to put on paper before. However, I think writing this is meant to help inoculate other...

So today, I received a 1-star review here on scribblehub. While it bothers me at the monkey brain level of my brain, fundamentally I'm not concerned too much by it. The person had a fairly well thought out commentary. What it did for me, however, was gather my thoughts around "Target...