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All caps is like seasoning in food- use sparingly. I have the same issue with when authors end the majority of their sentences, descriptions and dialog, with exclamation marks. I start hearing everything as if narrated by Billy Mays.

If the magic is elaborate- when did they learn it? Do they not need to practice? As for your 'basic' elements- you can make it make the implementation as simple or complex you want: Example 1: Magic A is Magic A. So a fireball is a fireball. It always has a set power, damage, range ect. Example...

Oh God. This. So much this. It doesn't even have to be that long ago. Like any other skill, the more you practice, it improves, and you look back at your older works and go 'what'.

I remember two: in 2nd grade I wrote a story about Paul Bunyan fighting a giant radioactive scorpion. Burying it after the fight was what formed the Grand Canyon and part of the Rocky Mountains. What can I say? Writers have no sense of scale. ? The second was in 6th or 7th grade- it was about...

I've seen this done a couple ways. 'My life as the Villainess- All routes lead to Doom' does the alternating viewpoints. First it's Katrina's view, then whoever she was interacting with retelling the scene from their view. It's a neat idea and highlighted just how out there and oblivious she...

Blocking voidiris, because anyone who thinks raping a child can be justified..... yeah?

'They weren't themselves'. Bullshit. Pure, unadulterated bullshit. They raped a child. A slave that hadn't way to resist. That is who they are. No amount of good deeds makes them a good person. They aren't doing the deeds because they're good. They're doing them to make themselves feel better...

Stark x Rorona

Put diced red onion in ice water for 25-30 minutes and it removes the harsh flavor and instead makes them taste sweet when raw.

He really only did short stories. I recommend 'The Demon Breed' as a good example. He does a good job of high level world building- just broad strokes, but in the course of the story you get a glimpse of the recent human history, how the government works, a bit of behind the scenes in how the...

If you like Phillip K. Dick, you might want to check out James H. Schmitz.

The thing about America that most Europeans miss is how damn big it is. It takes me 3 hours, on freeways, to drive to my parents place, which is in the same state. So, post apocalypse, what level of technology is there? Communications and travel are going to limit the territory people can rule...

Considering that part of the fear of death is the fear of the unknown, of dissolution, of oblivion, I would say that is just an aspect of death. Void, as in the absence of form, light, senses, could be viewed as as as an aspect of darkness.

I was six. Sitting on a windowsill in my 1st grade classroom. I slid off to stand up and a piece of metal framing that stuck out of the wall ripped a hole in my back. Decades later it is still visible to sight and touch.

Reread what you just wrote.

Chupacabra. Only the world they were isekai'd into was this one, and they no longer have the magical abilities they did in their old world.

My mom is an avid gardener- use to have her own landscaping business, worked at a plant nursery, volunteers at the botanical gardens type. I just found today that the street view photo of the house on Google maps shows her working in the garden. I was amused.

Not me, I can't sit still to save my life. But my wife can't start new books too late in the evening as 'Just one more chapter' becomes 'Why is the sun rising already?'

'Right' and 'Easy' are different words for a reason.

It's not so much that I am trying not to copy Tolkien in that regard, it's that I find Elves and Dwarves way overused and just.... Boring. Even the 'edgy' versions in Warhammer and WH40k. I was always more interested in the Ents and the Balrogs, even the Watcher in the Water. I have spent hours...