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Extremely AI like, because I really would like to know how any human would consider this a twist in an isekai. It would be like saying a romance has a twist of two characters falling in love

Could just be because of cultural norms that somehow led to a very powerful, exclusive group of women in charge. There's some historical precedents for it. Probably the most famous would be the "Spartan Heiresses" that at times had more social and financial power than even the kings. For a...

Some of the scariest real life horrors are the ones that make sense why they happen, while also being things the victim had no control over. One that's always stood out to me was the use of non-functioning anesthesia but fully-functioning paralytics during intensive surgeries. You see...

I'd rate it somewhere between a 2 and a 9. Maybe even between a 3 and an 8...

Sure, go ahead. VoraCity It's a writing experiment more than anything else. Content aside, the first chunk of the story goes on for a long time in this weirder subject matter before becoming a very different kind of story. It gatekeeps the people who would like the later character-driven...

From one of my not-web-novel works, the most memorable villain is less a direct antagonist, and more a force of nature personified. She drifts in and out of the scope of the story, with enough remnants of her actions being seen throughout the setting. When she is actively antagonizing anyone on...

There's definitely nothing inherently wrong with it, but you have to look at it from the reader's POV. If there's a 9k word prologue that is anything short of captivating, they might just interpret it as being bad at pacing and click off. They're also going to be a lot more likely to skim...

Analogue: A Hate Story Having seen enough love stories, I wondered what a "hate story" would be. I think it did a good job answering that question.

"When people say they want a relatable protagonist, they really mean they want a resonating protagonist." It's close enough to a quote I heard in an old review. I'd say the simplest step to seeing how to make a more likeable protagonist is to just go back and watch shows or read books with...

It depends on how far your sex scenes are going. If it's just some kissing and touching with a fade to black, I've even seen PG-13 movies get away with that. If there's anything involving actual depictions of the beast with two backs, I'd say just mark it as containing s*xual content, even if...

Honestly, I'd give her at least a 15% myself, but I guess the quiz is just playing nice.

The phrasing feels weird, but I get the spirit of it. It's brought up as a lingering doubt in the FMC's head that if she opened up to a certain character even a week sooner than she did, it would have led to The worrying part is that she had been considering sharing her personal secrets...

It's a farm, not a ranch, so presumably she can just grow crops. If you want her to be evil, have her grow corn specifically to make industrual grade high fructose corn syrup out of. Truly, even poisons cause less widespread harm than the devilish HFCS...

Same as above. You should still write it if you feel it resonates with you that much, but it's not excessively dark or, as you put it, "sadistically cruel".

Who knows? Not a single friend I ever made was someone I set out to "make friends" with. They're just a weird thing that happens on its own sometimes. If I saw anyone trying to come up to me out of the blue saying "hi, can we be friends", in any setting? I'd just recount to them the sheer amount...

The real problem is that em dashes are solely a stylistic choice. There's no place they can be used that they couldn't be substituted by parentheses, semicolon, or even commas, depending on the context. They don't actually do anything specific to them besides taking up more horizontal room to...

Hard to get the obligatory MC harem if they murdered everyone, unless they're a necromancer MC.

I haven't met anybody since my last ER visit, so I can't say I'm a social butterfly. But at the same time, even some of the acclaimed best romances/friendships/etc I've seen, I can't say a lot of them seemed natural to me. Very clearly forced to get these characters interacting in a certain way...

What is this, 2019? Get with the times and do like with rule 1. Have an AI generate the title for you.

Giving you their firstborn child? In this economy? Kids cost too much for me to be raising other people's.