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  1. CarburetorThompson

    What did you learn today?

    I learned what the loudest thing I’ve ever heard in my entire life sounds like. Likely over 150 dba with no ear pro. Was in between runways when a fighter jet took off, was really cool to see but hurt like hell, my head was ringing for a while afterwards
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    Writing Question - How do you keep track?

    The only real answer is to retroactively edit your chapters and then gaslight readers into thinking there was never any plot hole or contradiction
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    Disgustingly easy cheat code to fix a (narratively) bland character

    Give them a giant crab claw for a hand. No such thing as a bland character with a giant crab claw on one of their arms.
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    Question about fair use of places in a story.

    You don’t need to change the name of Las Vegas, but using real hotels and casinos would be copyrighted. As for saying splash mountain or log fume, Disney doesn’t care, you’re nothing but an ant to them, they would gain nothing by sending you a cease and desist. Personally as an author I...
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    Question about fair use of places in a story.

    Depends on the country and the medium. Short answer, probably not, to be safe you could always just make allusions to where the place is rather than naming things directly. However in honesty your story is small enough it likely doesn’t matter. This site has Naruto fanfics that certainly...
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    What is your secret potion?

    I only drink water, orange juice, and the occasional sports drink (Gatorade/powerade)
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    The Word Chain Game (Shiritori)

    Iaijutsu gotta keep the theme going
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    I like fantasy apocalypse stories, things with that dark souls ambience, but the genre seems...

    I like fantasy apocalypse stories, things with that dark souls ambience, but the genre seems kinda niche
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    Ugh, I realized I gave my elf princess blonde hair

    Zelda? Like the guy with the green hat and sword?
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    Non-underdog stories?

    Pretty much every story is an underdog story at its core. Because if your protagonist starts with the ability to overcome any and all obstacles that find them you would not have a plot. Even stories where the protagonists have a much larger and stronger backing are in reality an underdog story...
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    What are your favorite powers or abilities you came up with?

    The mc of this story. Probably one of my personal favorite characters I’ve made. The reason this story is unreleased despite having a completed cover, is because I’ve rewritten 3 times. I’m constantly changing it because I want to do one of my favorite characters justice when I eventually...
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    What publically contoverial/publically hated(whether justified or not) stories have you read and what were your thoughts on it?

    I’ve read The Art of The Deal by Donald Trump. There a few funny or interesting anecdotes and stories within it, but they usually only last a paragraph or two at most. The vast majority of it is super boring New York real estate law
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    How often do you use the thesaurus?

    obviously I’ve never used one, since dinosaurs went extinct millions of years ago.
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    Stop telling me that gen z starts in 1997. 1997-2000 is still millennial. I don’t know when this...

    Stop telling me that gen z starts in 1997. 1997-2000 is still millennial. I don’t know when this revisionist history started. Just because you’re too dumb to count to 1000 doesn’t mean you aren’t a millennial. It’s literally the fucking etymological origin of the term millennial. This is a hill...
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    Is this cover too spicy?

    No, mods aren’t 15th century English puritans, this isn’t Royal Road
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    What's your favourite type of MC?

    Nothing I care more about in a main character than agency. I don’t care if they are weak or strong, dumb or clever. The only thing that matters is agency. A story where the main character never makes any decisions, or has everything planned out for them by someone else, is uninteresting to me.
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    What's the darkest thing you've ever had to Google for a book?

    My short story I wrote was, although set in a fictional world, was largely inspired and based upon ethnic conflict in Eastern Europe. To set a tone I looked at a variety of things, like 1999 bombing of Yugoslavia, Armenian genocide, Prague Ghetto, and more fun stuff. Eventually the story kinda...
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    Stars are made not born

    Would
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    Have any of you take advantage of using the glossary?

    I use glossary because I upload infrequently and sporadically. Don’t know if anyone uses it, but I want it to be there so readers can quickly look up the things they don’t remember when coming back to the story. Also just think it’s fun to fill out
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    What is your favorite drink in the morning?

    Orange juice or water
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