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No degree is needed to become a professional writer. It can help, but it isn't needed. There are a ton of writers and bestsellers who never studied writing. Instead, life experience and repetition are often more important. Hence, you see a lot of journalists, marketing writers, etc break into...

How does someone self promote without coming off as desperate? You don't. So embrace it. Think about your target audience and then try to work out what they want and then use that to advertise your work. It'll look better if you've become successful but until then, it's time to be desperate...

Yes.

Depends on the genre, but in general: both. Fluff (or the stuff happening in the downtime) is what makes you care about the characters, angst is what creates the stakes and drives the story. Though that said, SoL or similar genres also work fine with lesser stakes...

Oh, that's another good one. People who completely reset after their isekai-reincarnation. 40 years old guys who act like pre-teens with no life experience...

Most stuff I don't like is avoided through the tags. Biggest red flag for me is the author including his own opinions (mostly political or racial) into the novel through the characters while it neither makes sense in the situation nor for the character to feel like that at all. If your stupid...

No. It is a simple "Don't stop because some trendy trag is far ahead at the beginning". Because a lot of those stories who started way ahead of me didn't stay there. And yeah, it is just against my own story. But my story also isn't anything special, so any decent story should have the...

It's my personal experience. I took an eternity to get the first 100 readers, now I sit at a more decent number and there were a lot of "smut"-stories (I only did it for smut back then because it was a discussion in another topic) that had worse words/reader-ratio although they had a better...

Though a lot of those "popular early" stories also plateau faster. A lot of less popular stories (by tags) will achieve the same height (or even more) over time with constant growth. Which is why the first 2,3 times on the trending list are a better indicator for "growth potential" compared to...

It's more or less on the lower half of average. Though you should look at readers/chapter more than readers/day. Or if you want to go by work... words/reader. It depends a bit on your target audience and the tags you use, but for "non-popular"-tags, 3 readers/chapter is a good average value for...

I "love" the people who start reading a novel with the harem tag and scream about the "stupid harem" at chapter 200...

It's less the name in itself but how you use it. It's how people speak about "don't go to the silo" that makes the name silo creepy in the setting. It's how people are reluctant to think about what happens to those who go to the farm. It's shown in how everyone ignores the nursery and it can't...

There is a concept thrown around that I like - "Exposition as ammunition". Don't take your information as something you dump on your readers and go on. Weave it into your story. Dialogue, Quests, revelations. You can either throw in 3 pages of the history of the city and the old emperor who...

Both of them are more of a sandbox-experience and most of the NPCs are rather forgettable (or you remember them for how stupid they are). Not the best foundation for a fanfic that is mostly character based. Throwing characters into a world is possible, but at that point most authors will just...

Depends on the content... if it has a good flow and interesting information, then keep it. If I want to close it halfway through because it's an infodump without any connection, then even a two-parter won't help. If the quality is good, I would go with one long chapter. No need to break it in...

It's less production value and more story and series composition that I fear. The anime has potential - especially with the darker setting with actual deaths and the like - but I still fear that we get the usual "and here are cute girls animated just so you can love your waifu!" when it doesn't...

Waifu labs cover --> girl on the cover --> underage girl on the cover --> something something pedophilia

Character design work...

Beside the usual suspects... the Arknights anime. I love the game and character( design)s, but I can't see this end up as anything but a trainwreck. Some kind of morbid curiosity. Same for KanColle S2.

I'm good at questioning myself to the point that I stop writing... :blob_teary: