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Try writing in second person as a challenge someday. I did that last semester at Uni for my final portfolio piece. As a D&D GM, it actually came quite naturally to me.

I voted "child of a slave" — because who better to feel the weight of injustice than someone born beneath it? Now, if you’ll excuse a quick nerd rant on alignment, I’d actually argue your protagonist doesn’t quite fit Chaotic Good as described. Chaotic Good is whimsical. It’s the trickster...

My entire story is a parallel between the 4 protagonist's reaction to similar events. Heck, with my 16+ guest narrators, it's a parallel between even more than just those 4. So yeah. In a nutshell, it's all my story is about. "What happens when X change?" "Well, that depends on who you are...

One of my favourite movie, Kuffs with Christian Slater, does it all the time. And I love it. Fate Weaver's Legacy, the protagonist Nana talks to the people watching her stream (even though she's Isekai'd), so we get an externalised You that also works very well for the reader. I sometimes...

It's weirdly funny because they pick the weirdest chapters to tell me they really got a vision to draw X and Y And I am like.. we saw that person once in 98 chapters, mate.

Well, many people have made money off slice of life writing, so give it your best!

I managed to hit Trending #1 a few times with State of the Art, and it's slice-of-life as heck. What you're measure of "success" exactly? Because if it's making money off of it, pirateaba's The Wandering Inn is certainly succesful in that regard. Bookshops And Bonedust and Legends And Latte by...

I have so much to say about the topic. Pacing is a bit of a passion project of mine. I am extremely long-winded in everything I write, including forum responses. My pacing tends to be slow—glacial, even—because I linger on small details, I give examples. And as a reader, I look for the same...

I post about 3 chapters a week. 1 more my new story, which gets posted day-of, because this one is mostly a project I started as a fun experiment. 2 chapters get posted on State of the Art. But I edit them before I post. I also write ideally 2 new chapters for State of the Art, so my backlog...

Chronic lack of sleep. Would not recommend.

Interestingly, as a game dev and fan of simulations and AI, I like to think of "character-driven" stories as emergent stories. Plot-driven to me is when the author has something to tell, and they ignore how "fake" their characters' reactions have to be, because it's needed to railroad the story...

I hear Pirateaba of The Wandering Inn fame is also hitting those 80k words chapters in length. As you said, book in its own right! xD

My only (serious) advice for OP: MMO novels or VRMMOs are not trending right now. Either make it normal fantasy, or plan to use the fact it's a game (for example, people logging because life sucks, or they log out because they need to decompress, or eat) My own story is a VRMMO one, but like...

1994's Maverick with Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster and James Garner. Poker tournament movie, it's very good (tm)!

Does Maverick count as a western? Because if so, that would be mine.

I'm 46 and French Canadian—not that it matters—and use Em-dashes all over the place. ('Tis just the way the neurodivergent brain thinks). Of course, I use other methods, such as commas or patenthesis, roughly as frequently... But!— —But I find the one place I can't easily replace them is when...

Reading, Gran Turismo 7, Board games, Final Fantasy XI, or writing another story. Sometimes baking cookies or home-made bread.

Wait, what, it's back..? I don't understand..!