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The major questions have mostly been answered. The only thing I can really add is that I used Canva to create my first cover art. It's a poster-making site that is really good for type setting over an image. It also has a few free-use images you can use, which is what I did. I just selected the...

I was playing team-up tag with a bunch of neighbor kids at night once. That is, the kind of tag where everyone who's tagged joins the person who's "it" against everybody else, "infecting" everyone in the game like a zombie apocalypse. Well, I was the last person who was not "it" in the game...

All of this advice is good, but another option on the extreme other end is to go full Tolkein and create your own language, then do exactly as Courty just said to do with Latin except with the language you created. The nice added benefit of this is that you can also use this to come up with...

Me, I say swearing is just one more tool you can use for characterization. My MC in both my series will swear but it's rather infrequent. On the other hand, both my series have characters with really bad attitudes, and part of the way that's portrayed is by the frequency of their swearing. My...

This exactly. And, however the magic system is structured, it should always affect the setting. The mere presence of magic should have a significant impact on the culture. The primary point of consideration is the prevalence of magic. The more easily accessible it is, the larger the impact on...

Hmm... well, that's weird. I haven't had the issue since the time at which I reported it, so that indicates my browser accepts cookies. Also, I have not cleared my cookies in several months, but the issue has shown up sporadically during that time. It wouldn't make sense for the cookie to be...

I am not logged out. I am set to have my account remembered every time I log in, and I am still logged in every time I get on the site. However, sometimes the theme is just back to the normal theme. Brave. If you don't know that one, it's a Chrome-based browser that essentially has a built-in...

I am set to dark theme for both the forum and the main site. However, every so often, my theme for the main site will go back to default. There is no consistency to how long it takes or however many times I revisit the site that it goes back to the default theme. I'm guessing this is likely to...

Well, I DID say you hyper-focus so much it distracts from what you are supposed to be doing.

Odd, considering what I hear a lot about ADHD is that you hyper-focus on one thing to such an extent that it distracts you from what you're actually supposed to be doing. This, combined with the fact that when you set out to do something, you do it "enough to convince yourself you could...

Several people have said "write it down," which is good advice, but in my experience I think I can do you one better. Don't write it down. At least, not immediately. You should move on with writing your main story while allowing the ideas for other stories to stay in the back of your mind. If...

Cats are easy, they like calm people. They like calm people who know how to think like a cat even more. Especially if your cat has a habit of biting. BTW: Cats bite for shows of dominance. The way to make them stop biting is to show dominance back. No, I'm not saying to bite your cat. But, cats...

I've only ever written Isekai. Just plain Isekai, absolutely none of that other stuff (unless you count the gender bender from the honorable mention, but that's played more as the universe simply not caring about gender and everyone having a 50% chance of winding up the opposite gender in their...

I've had entire conversations in my story in con-langs. As in, languages that exist nowhere except for in my own story. There is no one on earth who speaks these languages now, and there won't be until I complete my dictionary of this language and some theoretical super-fan in the future goes to...

I don't know. While the people in here seem rather evenly split in terms of negative to positive reactions to the video and the advice given, the discussion this time around has at least been productive and focused on actual issues rather than people just making flippant comments while meanwhile...

Our last discussion in summery. Me: This can help most people. You: Don't listen, you only need the thing that only helps 20% of people and hurts everybody else. Me: You are hurting people with what you're saying, stop. You: I'm not listening, la-la-la. Everyone else: Trololo. Conversation...

When combined with a few tips and tools to implement, this is actually worlds better than "just do it." "fuck ups are normal, just keep doing it" combines in a pep talk and accounts for the fact that the initial "just do it" may not be enough. EDIT: It also has a more understanding tone, and...

Fair proper criticism, worlds better than what we got last time through this. That said, I will definitely say the overly verbose criticism lands quite squarely on this video, but I'm not so sure about the "most basic things that a lot of people do already" part. First, I'd like you to define...

While rather flippant and dismissive of the genuine advice, I don't recall your comment really being that problematic on it's own. It was more what came after your comment that was the issue, and I don't think you could be expected to be held responsible for that.

I tried to post this topic a short time ago, and it was completely overrun by trolls to the extent that I requested the mods delete it so I could start afresh hopefully with more productive discussion. Well, they locked it instead, and now I'm re-posting it here with the same initial idea. This...