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  1. QuercusMalus

    Writing How do you deal with/prevent/manage power creep/rising stakes in story telling?

    Well mc may have gained power, the enemies are such that it hardly matters due to either(or some/all) a). Having the same powers, but vastly more experience wielding them, b). Having more resources so can zerg-rush them, or c). Powers being ineffective against the foe. So creative application of...
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    Your favorite line from your current work?

    It's my favorite because it's the reoccurring theme of the story: Aalis was slacking, lost in a daydream, fantasizing about the planned evening rendezvous when Winnifred, Winny's, hand came down on the back of her head. "Do it correctly." Aalis rubbed her head and averted her eyes as Winny...
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    If you don't know where you're going....

    ....You're going to end up somewhere else. -Yogi Berra. Wrote the ending of my story (or at least Book 1), and realized that this Yogi-ism is as true for writing as anything else. Now, I need to create and add in an new character to give my main character a the skills to have snowballs chance...
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    What is the temperature of thought?

    Luke-warm, stagnant and tepid.
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    Top 5 Husbandos....

    Haru Yoshida- My Little Monster. Haruhi Fujioshi-Ouran Host Club. Accelerator-A Certain Magical Index. Shiro Emiya- Fate/Stay Night. Ryuuji Takasu- ToraDora.
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    Age of consent question.

    I think you got it wrong...Mortrexo posted about someone putting a link in their profile, not that they put a link in someone else's.....
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    Describe your pet

    Some dogs are fiercely independent creatures who don't tolerate human contact. Others can be bribed with food or blankets to give crumbs of affection. Still others are velcro, attached to the hip of their precious owner. Mine is none of these. She makes velcro dogs look standoffish. She is not...
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    Which Tags are red flags?

    Fanfiction, especially if HP, Naruto or One Piece. Harem(or reverse-harem), and martial arts/cultivation.
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    Hey Readers! A little advice?? Please vote the most Clickbait worthy!

    4 if you remove the book in his right hand.
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    Too Much Heavy Foreshadowing

    I like to do subtle foreshadowing- building in seemingly inconsequential facts that are actually important, and I love and try to emulate stories where you don't notice the foreshadowing until thr second or third read through. If you have to spell out after every major event that it will have...
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    What weird stuff have you researched for the sake of accuracy?

    How gunpowder was made in pre industrial times Ph of stomach acid and the function of the various parts of the stomach to design an extreme omnivore race. Poisons. How big the heart of a blue whale is.
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    Memories of a previous timeline

    I like the idea of the memories being triggered by a current event. Just like with real life, something can trigger that memory. They can be distant or hazy, incomplete or detailed, jarbled or organized. For quick drama have a horrible memory get triggered at an inconvenient time.
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    A stupid idea

    I wouldn't go purely based on the dice roll just because even if you are playing dnd, a gm has the ability to fudge the roll if it will improve the game/story.
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    I wanted to write Fantasy novel but I CAN'T

    For place names, one recommendation I read that I have found useful is an excel list that you can mix and match from. So for example your first group is things like directions-North, South, East, West, Upper, Lower. Then geographic features: Vale, Chasm, Pass, River, Mount, Fenn, Coast, Woods...
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    Yo what the is up with this?

    Found the problem... I have a chromebook as well and it has a whole host of frustration inducing issues, including refusing to open docs marked 'make available offline' when I'm offline....
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    Favorite overused tropes

    The roaring rampage of revenge is always satisfying, especially when mixed with liberal dosage of karmic justice and hoisted by their own petard.
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    What do you do when you can not move on from the dead of your loved one?

    Even if you moved on, you will see something, do something, realize you are at a certain place, or it's a certain day and all of a sudden that old hole is as painfully, achingly open as if it just happened.
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    What is your protagonist(s) or antagonist(s)'s motive?

    Have you ever read anything on Four Corners Conflict? In his book, The Anatomy of Story, John Truby says, “a simplistic opposition between two characters kills any chance at depth, complexity, or the reality of human life in your story. For that, you need a web of oppositions. … Think of each...
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    So story is showing updates, but I get 404 constantly when clicking on it.

    Well, the aliens took it obviously.... Give it a few hours and it will be back, with a sore bum, and no memory of what happened.
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    "SYSTEMS", Floating Sceens, Skills and levels, YAY or NAY

    I think if I decided to do a truly game based story, the skills would all be done via skill tree, where you pick one, or pick the path you want to work on. When relevant (aka when MC levels up and gains a new skill) share the updated skill tree as a separate chapter with a 2 sentence blurb on...
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