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Ooh, my slowly approach the nudist strategy and ask them what to do strategy would've worked! (they're the most heavily armed, and I doubt my running skill, so seemed like the best move)

Intelligence is knowing how to answer this question. Wisdom is actually writing your novel rather than answering this question.

The Villainess acted more and more tense all evening, and the Heroine seemed more and more uneasy and expectant as well, if not to the same extent... she had been saying a few things about how the Villainess wasn't such a bad person and the like recently when they spent time together. It was...

If it's first person POV, it's easy to have them remind themselves of why they need to do things-- they don't need to go into great detail, but hey, maybe they need to remind themselves why they need to do some murders in this scenario? if it's not first person POV -- and even if it is -- you...

Try to summon him into another person's body, and decide it worked, and the person whose body they "summoned him into" is their new target. Just like they did to him. This isn't the first time someone's escaped, after all-- though it's usually through death rather than world-hopping.

Yeah, valid!

There are only four stories, I am told. Rise, fall, rise. Fall, rise, fall. Fall, rise. Rise, fall. Someone's abusive girlfriend breaks up with them, and they don't know how to handle themselves alone, and hit rock bottom before finding a new community and starting to build themselves a new...

I Was A Hero, But...: Usually the tension is not in who would win what fight if it came down to it, but who is willing to do what. The protagonist is not usually particularly powerful on a personal level, and usually ends up relying on their allies, all of whom have agendas of their own to one...

I don't have a religion myself, but a lot of gods in a lot of different religions can take the form of beasts, so ones that are supposed to take the form of beasts sometimes taking the form of beasts doesn't seem insulting-- but even with those, saying that some are beasts while other ones are...

I think you can have people have done horrible horrible things to NPCs offscreen and most(but not all) readers will be willing to forgive them if they are doing their best to be good now, because it doesn't feel "real". Doing things onscreen to characters they've built a lot of investment into...

...if you literally just want as close as possible, I'd probably try out Ready Player One fanfics? https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Ready%20Player%20Series%20-%20Ernest%20Cline/works

I don't think that's worth it-- it'll take a lot of time to craft a single story towards different audiences, and if someone runs across the "wrong" one they'll be confused. Better to make two different stories that handle it differently than that, I think, although even that might not be ideal...

Unfortunately, a technology's effects don't exist in a vacuum.

If you want fun new character philosophies and perspectives on romance/family/friendship for writing purposes, the easiest way I know to find them is via personality tests and zodiacs. I find the Enneagram types particularly interesting for this, but honestly, any of them work?

Hack: get a fan to translate a chapter of it, add it onto the story, tag it for being partially translated, ????, profit. Why do you want it to be invisible, though? If you want it to be semi-invisible, change the title to include [DISCONTINUED] on the end or something else like that, and a...

Yeah, I dunno, it's not something I actively support, though I haven't thought about deeply-- just something I've heard repeatedly about this site. I don't know how to do that -- assuming there is a way -- but when I basically wanted to do that, I edited the title to put (Answered) or the like...

So, right now the AI art issue is a big legal grey area and no one knows for sure where the chips will fall once there are actual rules. A branch of the government's working on that right now, from what I understand. There is no way to copyright AI art as far as I am aware, which means some...

Ah, relatable

Are they translated novels? Cause that's just in policy to get shadowbanned IIRC.

You're two weeks ahead, your brain is probably all storied out from doing more than it's used to. It's okay, maybe even good if you chill for a li'l while? I'd say: check in with how you feel the start of next week before you worry about it at all. If you really don't feel like going down to...