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> What is your genuine favourite fictional world? Iain M. Banks's Culture. > Once isekai'd, how would you live in that world? ... just vibe, I guess.

> How do you Hook Readers in a Chapter? "Always start with a murder. Doesn’t matter if it's a light romance or you're applying to an MBA program." -any MBA

> Harry Potter is original, yes? https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WizardingSchool

You're using the nyan-pass wrong.

My enemies will be aggressively exfoliated.

> It would be eating wood. What? You can eat wood right now, you don't need a trait for it.

Dust-mite tamer.

> if it has a good standing as in no issues about this power structure. Note that literpg is the local hotness, but Tolkien, Zelazny, Brust, Glen Cook, and Steven Erickson write perfectly readable stories while obscuring most or all of their system mechanics from the reader. Or having a...

Start 'en media res', in the middle of an action scene. Ax the prologue chapter with truck-kun and filler text about the System, Psychopomp, and/or letter from Hogwartz. The readers don't need it. More broadly, for any passage, ask if it advances the story or contributes to an interesting mood.

I think the first three or four chapters of a story determine if people will commit to it. > I can’t judge whether my story is good or bad, Find test readers? Maybe on a discord?

There are two types of countries. Those that use metric, and those that accidentally crashed a robot into the face of Mars.

>Freedom fries was a politically motivated renaming of french fries in the United States. The term was coined in February 2003 in a North Carolina restaurant, and was widely publicized a month later when the then Republican Chairman of the Committee on House Administration, Bob Ney, renamed the...

Alfir, if you were US based and writing sci-fi I would suspect the big sci-fi writers workshop would make more sense than a generic creative writing workshop that doesn't address or respect the genre. https://clarion.ucsd.edu/ --- Look at local improv classes - I read a convincing account by a...

Imagery that goes back to France not buying Bush Jr/Powell's bullshit that Iraq had "weapons of mass destruction", and that the US's allies had to invade Iraq because certain Saudis had funded terrorist training camps in Afghanistan who then did the 9/11 attacks. I think.

> enroll in a Creative Writing course at a respected university. Check that they address scifi/fantasy.

For my wife, it's showering. Then getting cold in her bathrobe while jotting down a note.

Get walks in. Also talk your doctor/a counselor.

Dwarf Fortress sounds cool.

> Which world do you think would suit him best? Oz.

Moreover, keeping track of an imagined difference may get in the way of telling an engaging story.