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    Give me something to read.

    https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/47340/master-this-poor-disciple-died-again-today/chapter/765250/1-the-end ?
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    Do you think grades matter in college

    If you're a prof, you're not going to write letters of recommendation or give summer research jobs to the students who are half-assing it.
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    Using perspective change as a crutch

    > Mushoku Tensei Completely non problematic?
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    Using perspective change as a crutch

    >> sadly I think the author lost their motivation for continuing the story :( https://www.novelupdates.com/fdrev/?comid=76967&sid=9276 > In a nutshell, this is the adventures of the reincarnated, blind, maid raping toddler and her (his) toddlercon fairy girlfriend.
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    AI Fiction Update: The Machines Are Coming For Our Words.

    > I think the big tech corpos would love it the other way around because they dream of controling the multi-billion dollar entertainment industry without any need for human employees. Nah, use ai art and word tools, fire 10% of the workers, and then implement 50%+ wage suppression on the rest...
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    Writing Making Magic 1 - A History of Magic?

    >> Japanese Shintoism for example, is a somewhat advanced form of shamanism still in practice today. I think that's a Pacific North West bear mask.
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    Do I need to reveal everything till the end of my series.

    > Do I need to For any rule, observe what skilled writers have done. Especially traditionally published writers with editors and stuff. Start with Iain M Banks, Barbara Hambley, and so on. --- I think any hard and fast rule is bullshit. What matters is more feel and tension and so on. Your...
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    Recommendations Emotional stories recocmendation

    Iain M Banks's Consider Phlebas.
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    The duality of putting limits on characters vs straight over-the-top powerups

    https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/47340/master-this-poor-disciple-died-again-today/chapter/765250/1-the-end
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    The duality of putting limits on characters vs straight over-the-top powerups

    > Though from my myopic view in CN, ... read more broadly?
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    What and why the bloody hell is there so many god damn thing about the human body that can be trained?!?!?!

    > This is twisting my testicles. A CBT professional would say you need to train those.
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    Magic World without Cultivation

    Read Barbara Hambley's the Silent Tower. Zelazny's Amber series. Yoon Ha Lee's Calendar Reform series. Stephen Brust's works.
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    I just made the best cover of my life, and I need opinions?

    It's a fun piece! --- The tip of the nose is missing. Review Northern Kentucky Drawing Database on YouTube - noses. --- The terminator edges of the shadow shapes are absent on the face. Review https://www.muddycolors.com/2024/09/on-edge-leveling-up-with-edge-quality/ And digitalcameraworld's...
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    Writing What are your thoughts on redemption arcs? Do they always need to happen, or should some characters stay villains?

    > What are your thoughts on redemption arcs? Do they always need to happen, or should some characters stay villains? Consider the Nazis from Indiana Jones, the Emperor from Star Wars, or the chicken from Wallace and Grommet. Or Lee Atwater from the Republican's Southern Strategy. --- I think...
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    Too much funny?

    > Does a book like that need downtime, It needs pacing and comedic/drama beats. Problem may have been the voice of the B thread characters, and not the B thread itself.
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    Keene learns to draw

    Work through Gurney's Imaginative Realism and Light and Color from your local public library. Maybe also Juliette Aristides's workbooks
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    Are Webnovelists the Modern Pulp Fiction Writers?

    There's a number of enthusiastic writers here who'd benefit from editors and advance readers before they're 10-20 chapters into something with no sense of place or characters' voice.
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    I think I'm Cursed

    > But if I stop myself from reading the latest like 10 chapters the story continues to update If you keep adding new stories to your list, you won't have the time to finish anything.
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