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  1. LostLibrarian

    Your Most Waited Upcoming Anime?

    Twitter will cancel that one before the first episode was even animated...
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    should I accept webnovel's contract?

    Like most big companies, webnovel will give you a contract that favors them. The overall idea behind the contract is a standard publisher contract, but due to the online-nature of the publishing, they provide you with a lot less in regards to marketing or advertising. You should be aware that -...
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    Recommend me a book or an author that has the best writing style.

    Cornwell is a Master of his craft. I remember reading one of his books where the MC made it clear he is recounting the story while still alive in the future. And Cornwell somehow still manages to make one fear for that same character because the flow of his writing doesn't give you time to stop...
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    Recommend me a book or an author that has the best writing style.

    My first question would always be: what kind of genre? Entertaining horror writing is completely different from entertaining romance writing or entertaining historical writing... That said, I don't try to emulate any because I'm not good enough for that... just feels unnatural and I get no...
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    Looking for Work I can draw for you anything you want!

    The watercolor one is cool... sadly it won't fit either of my current projects. But good luck. Depending on what you are willing to paint, you can easily go for triple figures...
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    Writing Structuring Loss Arc

    Honestly, I would go the completely opposite way: don't care about the readers' reaction at all. Instead, concentrate on the reaction of your MC and the other characters'. If you want to make it sad, concentrate on creating bonds between the characters and the "soon to be"-dead. Make them...
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    What’s your take on nationalism in novels?

    I mean, we have the same in the west. Try to count the western movies with stereotypical and stupid russian enemies... Nationalism is a product of a country and its history. I have no problem with it and mostly ignore it. I only hate it if it gets in the way of the story. Easiest examples are...
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    Registration for best pick up line contest

    To a man or a woman?
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    What would make someone drop a story?

    Repeating arcs. Especially with JP-harem or cultivation novels/LitRPG. The same storyline just with a different enemy boss and on a higher level/plane/different planet/school/whatever. Worst offenders are probably "faceslap novels, that have to constantly go to a new place to repeat the same...
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    What would make someone drop a story?

    There is still a list named "dropped" visible though... 11 entries that can feel extra bad :D
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    Are villain/villainess novels becoming cliche?

    It's a setting for a certain kind of isekai. Nothing different from "magical high school", "kingdom building", or whatever. The way it is executed will decide whether it makes use of the tropes of the genre to create an interesting/unique story or whether it'll become a lazy and cliché copy...
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    Registration for best pick up line contest

    This is evolving into a "worst pick up line"-contest... and fast.
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    Some ideas

    Sounds like a scene I would cut alltogether. It's not really needed and can be skipped because there is no new information for the reader. It'll end up as "boring filler".
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    Trying to get a feel for the audience here

    Just throw your stories out on all of them. It takes like 30 seconds to post a chapter. And just see what sticks... Worst case, you get some angry comments/reviews on RR and are ignored on the others...
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    Some ideas

    I start with the reason the scene is there. Most of the times, that's a certain information that needs to come across and should be new to the reader. Afterwards, I build the scene around that. If I want the MC to find a certain weapon or equipment by chance, I focus on him going shopping and...
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    Overused Protagonist Powers

    The power of friendship.
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    The Standard Transmigration Drill

    It really depends on the overall situation. If you have some kind of "definitive truth" in that moment, it might work out (e.g. some system message, talk with a god, etc). But just imagine, you wake up in an unknown land with a million memories that aren't yours. Or even worse, without other...
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    The Standard Transmigration Drill

    You can hurt yourself without spewing blood in the open, though. Just use your nails to dig below the nails of the other hand, or use a small stone or stick depending on your situation. Or pinch your skin. I mean "being able to decide" would probably already rule out a dream, but making sure...
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    Any people who learned English as a second language here?

    Probably due to familarity... Yeah, it might just be my bias in reading and picking stories/genres that more "advanced writers" tackle... So, my bad, I just don't see the bottom of the non-native writers. Let me take back what I said and declare the opposite =)
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    Two things you can’t argue against. (for real now)

    Most views of all time: 2 in Top 10 (8,10) Most views of the month: 2 in Top 10 (2,3) Most views of the week: 2 in Top 10 (2,4) Most views of the day: 3 in Top 10 (2, 4, 6) Never the Top Place, never dominating the Top 10. Seems Girls Love really is the way to being second best :blob_hide:
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