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The whole "no bestiality" thing strictly refers to real-world animals. While I'm not sure about extinct animals (extinct animals such as dinosaurs are allowed on platforms like Amazon because you can't "encourage sexual violence" against animals that are extinct), fantastical creatures are...

SH is, without a doubt, the friendliest and most accepting community among all of the websites that I participate in. Happy birthday, and here's to another year of growth and success! :blob_salute:

Honestly, I'm going to have to switch sides here, or at least not camp solely on the side of "there's nothing wrong with it, it's just a kink," since there are studies that have linked aggressive behavior to violent literature and music. Generally, when I see topics like this, I think of how...

If reader preferences don't matter, do whatever you want. If you do care about reader preferences, then it generally depends on your release rate. Daily chapters: 1k - 1.5k words each Three chapters a week: 1.5k - 2k words each One chapter a week: 3k - 8k words each One chapter a month: 10k+...

I've got to agree with Cupcake, at least in regard to the whole "let people have their fetish" thing. I'm personally pretty confident that most people who enjoy these works are more than capable of separating reality from fiction. The people who can't separate reality from fiction - well, you're...

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Fair enough! It's always nice to try and minimize it, though. Obviously, instead of worrying about advertisers, you just have to implement a premium service that lets us authors pay $100 a month in exchange for everybody being forced to look at our stories. o7 I'll try to report any stories I...

I'm pretty sure people have suggested this for Royal Road but it wasn't good enough, not to mention annoying, and it opens up the can of people who will say stuff like "but what's it matter if you can just disable ads on any story? It doesn't matter if advertisers don't like it because you can...

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I defend SH to RR, so it's only fair that I defend RR to SH as well. Royal Road is doing what it has to if it wants to stay in business. I've done a lot of reading into the whole RR-and-sexuality stuff seeing as how I was one of the first big-profile stories to get removed from there for...

If you want to write some fancy-schmancy "literary" fiction, then maybe. If you want to create literally any other type of story, no.

Good suggestion is good suggestion.

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Practice positive thinking. Force yourself to say positive things about yourself / your writing even if you don't believe it. Focus on any and all compliments that you are given. Whenever you're rereading/editing your work, make sure to point out to yourself every single little thing that you're...

You're forgetting something. Are those stories that the general audience of SH wants to read? No matter how wonderful a story might be from a technical standpoint, it doesn't matter in the slightest if it's not something that people want to read. One of the highest-rated authors on RR with the...

Covers are extremely important. When I was first starting out on RR, covers targeting my target demographic easily doubled my follower counts within a week. The vast majority of people do judge a book by its cover regardless of what they might say about not. It's just how us humans are. They...

While I don't know the specifics in regard to SH, I imagine it's much the same. This question gets asked a million and one times at Royal Road, and the admins always answer that it doesn't matter. There is a very small boost in activity for a couple of hours after work/school is out for...

This is the case for the vast majority of websites and always will be unless we figure out a way to change human nature. The people who actually leave reviews on something are always going to be in the tiny minority. Even on Royal Road where I've got a total of 3,088 ratings across all my...

To be fair, what I love is frontlines. God, I really love frontlines. Most of my game time is probably doing frontlines. Feast is kind of meh. I enjoy it, but I love large-scale PvP much more than arena PvP. I certainly have seen some toxicity in ranked Feast matches, but I've seen no more of it...