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It really depends on your goal. If you are only looking for more readers, then it's fine to post there. The numbers are pretty meaningless, but you might get some comments occasionally. If, however, you are looking for anything besides some comments or feedback, it's not really worth it, and...

As someone who is married, and is planning on having children in a year or two, there are a lot of reasons people aren't getting married and having kids in the US. Interestingly, most of the reasons are actually not what people think. People point out all sorts of garbage that empirically we...

The best thing you can do is practice mindful writing. You are the habits that you build. If you just write a bunch and don't think about it, all you are doing is cementing existing habits. Mindful writing is very slow, and honestly, very frustrating. It's the only real way to build good...

I think the author can give permission, but all the readers will basically know it's not the original vision. What's happening to star wars is an example of that.

The level of mental gymnastics that fanfiction writers go through to convince themselves that taking entire settings and characters verbatim from someone else's work is the equivalent of modifying a concept is on a level not seen since all those people drank the kool-aid at Jonestown.

As far as I can tell, it seems like he was the one to bring their modern form to the fantasy genre. He borrowed their concepts from a few different beings in folklore, for sure. When people think of elves as a fantasy race, they either think of Tolkien elves or Santa's elves now a days...

Tolkien did it for plot purposes, and others copied the trope.

I think this is the correct method. I've started a small amount of the work to start my rewrite already, and I'm probably between 1/2 and 2/3 of the way done with the novel. Never slow down your main writing to start doing revisions or rewrites. That's how the series ends up unfinished. By...

Three or Four trends from now, it's a good chance. By then, twilight will be old enough that it could be a resurgent genre.

I think space operas are a pretty good bet, though I think I'd place it as the trend after next. Too much of the star wars audience is still hanging on with the Mandalorian. After it's really dead for good, I think it's got a good chance. Though I'd gladly be wrong. I was a huge fan of star...

I think it's fairly obvious that, at the very least, this won't be the next trend. Female superhero lead movies aren't doing as well as male leads, and people still mock wuss men characters in movies. Further, movies and books that push this are usually banned in China, which is a big market...

I'll start with a few things that I don't think will be trending, then I'll give my answer. I don't think dark fantasy can be the next trend because reality itself is a little too full of conflict to support people willingly diving into gritty fantasy. For similar reasons, anything that takes...

You make some good points. This thread should probably be locked from further comments. I'm done commenting on it.

They've openly admitted to seeing a therapist. Therapists are generally licensed psychiatrists. They're very likely actually psychotic. They've also admitted to eating anti-anxiety meds like they're candy. Anti-anxiety meds can frequently cause psychotic episodes as a side effect (especially...

Yes, because you're deranged and/or psychotic.

People have basically been telling you there is no second floor, and if you want one, you need to go out, buy the parts, and build it. Doing that would require leaving the house though, and you've proven yourself incapable of that.

You can tell yourself to give up. That's what you're doing. I can't know that giving you advice is going to make you feel like giving up. It feels like your subconscious is telling you to give up. You are reading past the advice people are giving you. Advice that has worked for other people...

You were the first person to mention giving up. I'm not going to read through the whole thing to see if anyone actually told you to later, but you were the first one to say it. People aren't google. When you say, give me marketing advice after saying "I've tried every tip and trick out...

I'm seconding this. OP's initial post was vague, and ultimately, what they asked initially was not what they really wanted. So when people gave advice based on their initial malformed post, they got defensive. If I approach a thread (which by the way isn't even in the right forum), with an...

Are they review bombing on another website? I see you got a 5 star review yesterday, and maybe you received 1 or two negative ratings since I checked yesterday. At best, you could claim that maybe 2 people went and did it. Realistically though, and this is advice coming from someone who has...