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Finally back up to benching 80kg for 5x5. Will settle on it for a few weeks and then begin the push to 90kg. I'm sure I'll eventually reach 100kg, but right now it seems like an impossibly heavy weight ? If I can get there in 18-24 months I'll be more than happy!

This is typically why so many romance/erotica novels will use first person, and epic fantasy use third person. If anyone has an example of an epic fantasy using 1st person I would love to see it!

After spending 18+ months programming the base functionality and systems... finally ready to start building out the most important functionality, the ability to create novels! But first.. reworked the form to have some nicer dropdowns when creating a new board for an authors community/guild:

Stepping away from anime/novels, I think Rose and Bernard's relationship in LOST was one of the most genuine and well written relationships shown on TV. Spoiler:

Dream sleep? 7pm -> 4am gives me a good 9 hours every night. Plenty of dreams to be had!

Today marks the 32nd day of me getting up at 4am and going to the gym before work. Been strict with my bedtime at 7pmish every day also. My old PB of the daily gym grind was 14 days so I'm happy to have smashed it. Aiming for 100 days now!

Tyranny of Steel I think is a good example. If my memory is correct there are multiple times battle scenes are shown from the POV of the attacking medieval army where the writing shows: Cause: Fist size holes appearing in everyone - dropping down dead, limbs blown off, whistles of bullets...

Not to make any judgements on this particular novel, but if you as a writer have needed to clarify to new readers "Don't give up! Read the first X chapters then it really gets good!" it's a big red flag for your own writing. IMO a novel should set broadly the tone, genre and type in the first...

Honestly I had yet to see a fantasy story that can authentically present a believable military theory over the use of tamed winged creatures as airborne troops. If anyone know of any, please let me know!

This makes me think that this style of writing would be really effective in a POV battle scene. The effect, an injury or lost limb, is described first and then the characters mental processing of how it happened. Thinking about it, I'm pretty sure this is how I've seen it done in the countless...

I think the main problem that can arise is when a characters beauty, and other characters reactions to it - is all there is. A character whose romance or general plot revolves around something not really in their control - their physical appearance - makes typically for a boring plot because...

Consider this effect: The man is woken up. And this cause: A brick is thrown through the man's window. What's better: The mans eyes snapped open (effect) as the brick was thrown through his window (cause). The brick smashed through the mans window (cause), waking him with a start (effect)...

Quoted for truth. I wasted many years before I truly understood the power of discipline - of no longer relying on a short term dopamine hit or burst of motivation to do something - and instead start prioritizing hard, but achievable long term goals with delayed payoff and gratification.

And this is why the cloud is now king ? Pretty sure most writing software whether its Word or Scrivener will have multiple ways to set up automatic saving to some cloud service such as Dropbox or One. Make sure to set it up!

I strongly advise you to just stick with bog standard HTML, CSS and JS for now. Node is sort of antiquated now and sufficiently complicated and confusing for a newbie I wouldn't advise looking into it. As you become familiar and comfortable with writing HTML files, styling with CSS and adding...

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I would go a step further and say this is an essential skill to develop if you want to be a good writer. Too many people see writing as an activity than can only be undertaken when they are hit by a sudden stroke of motivation or flash of genius. These same people rarely write much at all and...