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    Monster MCs

    Uh, I have 4 of those if you're interested. All with decent reader and rating numbers, I think. Though, the one who can't do anything about their inhuman looks would be my slime girl (same title). Then there's a giant insect princess, an eldritch horror (Eldritch), and a very young Arachne with...
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    Anyone using "serious" cover instead of anime girl?

    I need to admit, whenever I see an anime girl cover, click on it, only to realize that the protagonist is male, I kinda feel scammed. Usually, I like the cover to at least give me an idea about the story. I think for it to be a good story the cover should match the atmosphere. That can be a...
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    Are people afraid to write reviews?

    I guess it's also often a case of "if you have nothing nice to say, better say nothing." I don't really want to give my honest opinion on the first work of an author and discourage them. The same goes if I like a story, but there are tiny things that would make me reduce the general rating. I...
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    Can your MC beat Goku tho?

    Well, of my four stories, one MC could. A nice little eldritch (formerly human) girl that is new to all this shit. Maybe not in her usual body, which is quite human, but the fact that she's a decentralized, eternally growing dimension devourer should give her this slightest edge over him. The...
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    Editing Anyone looking for a paid editor?

    Well, the Bully Herbig films are all quite good if you're looking for comedy. "Wickie und die starken Männer" (1 and 2), Hui Buh das Schlossgespenst" (1-3), "Der Schuh des Manitu". Oh, there's "Lissi und der wilde Kaiser" as an animation film. Aside from that I fear germany isn't all that...
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    Tell me about the protagonist in your story?

    Well, in my story "Eldritch" I have Iori Nomia. Iori Nomia is a fourteen-year-old Japanese-American girl, living in Japan with her mother, while her father is usually out, because of his job. She has also a bad case of insomnia that makes her only half-functional in daily life. Yet the reason...
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    Tell me about the protagonist in your story?

    Okay, let's try: My main character is Shari, a seventeen year old, tomboyish girl in a remote village from a forester family. That is until she gets abducted by a slime and transformed into one. Now she'd like to not get killed on sight and works towards the goal of establishing a somewhat...
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    Eldritch in story writing

    In my case, I thought that some might just find the culture interesting. Something to meddle within that you don't find on raw, wild monster dimensional realms. Then it would just need one coming for the other to ask themselves if there's a reason for this interest and if they're missing out on...
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    Isekai variety

    Not to forget, there's the "the game is about to be shut down" variant.
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    Isekai variety

    Those are common but: Suddenly opening portal, suddenly opening portal in pc (or other video console), sudden invitation of good leading to suddenly opening portal. Dying during playing hero/innocent bystander victim. Oh, I just read here on SH a start where a girl gets her head cracked against...
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    Coping With Poor Reviews

    I guess it helps to have nice reviews and focus on those. Then you can take the purely spiteful ones with humor, as the really unfounded ones rarely have any logic to them. I for example can't take those serious who generalize and say the story is bad because they say so and everyone thinks the...
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    Doubts when creating a story

    I don't know. I started with my first story around three years ago and still stick with it. To me it's fine. When I started, my grammar wasn't nearly as good, and it still is far from perfect, but I think I improved. So I regularly go back and edit the old chapters to improve them to somewhat...
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    Controversial Inhuman Partner Poll

    Hm, coming from my stories, I'd suggest a humanoid slime and a loyal insect drone. They both are so nice and devoted. Especially the insect nurse gives great massages with its four arms. (risk of inhuman transformation for oneself, especially with the slime)
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    Determining the Optimal Level of Overpoweredness: Is It Possible?

    In my opinion, being OP from the start is bad for adventure stories. If a story contains exploration then stuff has to remain dangerous as to keep it meaningful. A hero who can just push through everything, doesn't have to fear anything, and can overcome every obstacle without knowing setbacks...
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    Paul's feedback thread

    Oh my, I'm kinda interested, but at the same time too shy to make the jump.
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    How do you deal with a writing block

    It helps to immerse yourself in your world. If you like your characters, what are scenes or situations you would like to see them in? Would they make any sense? How would you get there, in terms of preparational writing? If you're truly into digging your own stuff, then there are things you like...
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    What would you do when you woke up one day inside the body of your main character

    Probably abandoning the main story line, considering I know all the crap that's still in store for her and that there's no greater harm done if she doesn't do it. That and probably freaking out, as none of my MCs are human anymore.
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    Prologue: yea or nay?

    I'll admit, it might've been clunky, but for my first story I did something like a prologue. Rather a character self-introduction of the two main characters where they tell the reader about themselves, their world and their place in it. Maybe there would've been another way to introduce the...
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    How to write a two-faced manipulator?

    I'd suggest introducing him as being helpful. You might add slight inconsistencies but overall it shouldn't be obvious. Then it's the question if you want to reveal it early on, so the reader knows what's going on. In my case, I made him instigate a situation to make him look good and later do a...
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    The elven series

    I think the last one's head is a bit too far left. Also, anyone else the problem that you often have trouble making an elf character if they have long hair?
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