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Edit it for language, to improve grammar and flow, but don’t change the content other than minor details. I think it’s good policy to polish up earlier chapters while assuming that anyone reading the latest chapter could have read either the old version or the new version… so you don’t want to...

Some people become more likely to have this kind of sleep paralysis nightmare if they end up with pillows on top of them or around them. So if it happens again you may want to think about your choice of pillows-as-blankets and if it’s worth the risk!

Lost Girl by Adam Nevill is pretty good in this genre too (only hints of anything supernatural, in a creepy pasta kind of way)

I like to draw on the original folklore and more recent takes (which usually originate in D&D or anime) but try to give it a twist by recombining. These three are interesting because they kind of have the same role in folklore: “savage,” brutish and larger/stronger than people, who’ll bully you...

wow, now I really want to read that story about the turnip who shoots spaghetti out of his nose and cucks Santa, but I’ll take batshit original and hard to read any day over “done before but written well”

You can do all this stuff with any kind of magic system — gods enforcing rules on mortals (I like “geas” style for that), people trying to analyze/identify magically and getting glitch nonsense runes that terrify them, etc. Doesn’t have to have stat numbers and dialogue boxes and all that other...

Doubting your writing skills is a sign that you're getting better at reading, and your reading skill, taste and understanding of what makes for good writing has outstripped your writing skill. When you keep at it and your writing improves, then you'll be at the other "art high" part of the...

A really smart but depressed author (whose initials were DFW) once told me that endings are like non-parallel lines -- two lines eventually converge somewhere. If the ending is far away, then you can't quite tell where it is, or maybe it seems like the lines could go on for a very very long way...

Favorite dialogue in fantasy novels includes: Tamsyn Muir (The Locked Tomb seires) Gene Wolfe (Book of the New Sun, also in the Latro in the Mist books) Katherine Addison aka Sarah Monette (Goblin Emperor) They actually all have writing styles, especially in dialogue and action description...

Depends on the model, from what I understand, and with some models you can adjust how the "gathering" works. ChatGPT is more like using a phone operating system -- you can't really adjust it under the hood or see what it can remember, it just tries to be as "user friendly" as possible at the...

The statistics pages, search listings and the table of contents panel when editing a story all show various info about a series and its chapters. Some of these are averages, like Average Views (chapter views divided by chapters) and Average Words (words divided by chapters). I'd like to suggest...

Definitely true -- I don't feel like these stories are 100% authored by me. I also don't consider Krake to be an "author" in the same way that a human can be, but it's a little bit as if I was letting weather patterns decide what happens next in a story, or tarot cards. Or dice, exactly as...

The stories in my sig are all written using NovelAI, which has very different pros and cons than the ChatGPT list above. (That list is basically why I don’t use ChatGPT or Sudowrite, which is an uncensored ChatGPT but still has the generic-ness problem.) NovelAI is much less generic, as it’s...

The MC's own mother, decades earlier, who can't tell anyone about the time-travel reincarnation lest a time paradox erase the whole family from history

That's funny, I tend to use Kurokawa a lot too... like the protagonist in the second story in my signature! But that might be because I went to middle school with a friend named Kurokawa in Japan, and I've remembered the name ever since because I thought "black river" was cool when I was 12...

Yep!

Smut has depictions of sex and genitalia, with or without fetish/niche content. Ecchi generally does not have that kind of explicit stuff, buti instead has softcore sexual content, "playful" lewd behavior such as a character tripping and falling face-first into a woman's cleavage, peeking into...

Kind of agree, that's why the question is about "what if a new theme emerges while writing" -- like, something that wasn't planned from the beginning, as a long series evolves. Do you get rid of old tags to make room, maybe just the ones that have already come into play and are less important...

Have you ever run into a problem where a reader complains about the "new themes" like, "hey this story wasn't tagged with [thing that started to appear in a later chapter] !" ...or do people reading long enough not care / you can handle that with chapter notes

Let's say you're writing a long series and you tag it with what you're thinking about writing, or have already drafted/finished, for a whole bunch of chapters. So far, so good. When you keep going -- maybe in a "volume 2" or just a continuation of the same story into new territory, there are...