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Well, the suffering in Worm is a bit more along the lines of Mushoku Tensei than anything. It's just... a whole hell of a lot worse. And the reason why it's worse is because it's just so believable. Every single last thing that goes wrong in Worm is because of something that you could see...

Which misunderstanding? The one about the target? Or the one about the allegiance? (worded carefully to tell enough information to people who know, but not spoil for people who don't.) At any rate, whichever it is, you really shouldn't let that scare you off. Yes, it's what kicks things off...

Worm, the web fiction to reach #1 in the English original category back in the golden era of the early 2010s where the ridiculous majority of the best web-fictions out there were written. Also famous for being the story that makes it's MC suffer so severely that it can actually traumatize the...

Meh, don't need a hyper-analysis of this one. It's already well defined in the anime community. All I've really gotta do is link the wiki article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chibi_(style) In other words, the definition of "chibi" is "anything drawn in the chibi style." And, the chibi style...

Simple tip, experience it yourself. Yeah, that's not easy for everyone. There are a few ways, and the least dangerous one is to find a very VERY legit martial arts studio that also happens to be taught by an instructor with at least a decade of experience, preferably 2. I've actually had such a...

I don't think my magic system is a very suitable example for this. It's nested, inter-connected, and one of those things that can be described as "complex in it's simplicity." It would just be disheartening to newbie writers. Well, I guess I can best sum it up by saying that I added a 2nd...

Just realized, why don't I just link the video of the opening I mentioned here? Actually, the eating didn't take up as much of the scene as I remembered, but it's enough. Pretty much, you just have to describe a scene that gives the same "close-up" impression that this OP does.

Really, for eating scenes, it's actually not that hard to make it disgusting. Just describe it in an uncomfortable level of detail. That's really all you have to do. Basically, do a written version of the opening to Dexter. Dexter opens with a close up of the MC's mouth as he's eating, and...

I'm in the "I don't care" camp primarily. However, I do have to add a note about MTF genderbenders. If there is any smut of the "hard-core" variety at all, smut + MTF gender bender are the single worst combination in existence. I absolutely loathe it with great intensity. MTF genderbenders that...

Sorry brah, that's not enlightenment, that's ideological possession. You need to watch out for that stuff. For me, it's more like the techniques of a skilled method actor. I can simply wear the personas of the character's I'm interacting with in my stories, and I can move them as I like. You...

Ehh...? You mean to say this isn't the normal state for people while they are writing? This is literally my experience every single time I sit down to write, and I slip into this state without even the slightest issue. Meh, I guess it's just a product of practice or something. You'll all get...

I said it "feels" like the end game. I know there's another 2000 chapters and all, but the fact he's one step away from the 4th sanctuary makes it feel like the next "cycle" ought to be the last, thus the "nearing the endgame" feel to it. Again, I know that's a false impression with how many...

Yeah, that would be the #3 issue in Chinese novels of that genre. Unfortunately, it does not really resolve that one. I'm currently around chapter 1250, and I think that while it is ciclical, it does manage to change things up just enough each cycle that it is still enjoyable. But, it's a...

I've recently been engrossed in what has to be one of the most bizzare genre combinations ever. I discovered a series called Super Gene, and it is a sci-fi setting with a cultivation power system. And yet, it works so incredibly well that I would even dare to call it the single best Cultivation...

90%? Try 100%. Even the supposed people you mention who "did something new" were copying someone else. Tolkein is accredited with re-shaping the face of the fantasy genre, but he was also inspired heavily by works like Beowulf and parts of the Christian Bible. There are also quite a few people...

Carol of the Bells... you mean this Carol of the Bells? Yep, we'll count that one as non-lyrical, because it's freaking Carol of the Bells. Totally counts.

Well, I was actually very turned off by the first 4 words in the synopsis, "In a captivating tale." That kind of self-aggrandizement simply rubs me the wrong way and I refuse to even look at anything that has that sort of stuff in the introduction. EDIT: Lines like that one do appear on the...

Meh, well, I guess the leader + heart combo magical girls tend to be like that. Which, since they have the leader aspect and thus are the face of the group tends to have them taken as the default of what a magical girl is, even though they actually only make up 20% of the magical girls you see...

Ok, fine. How about Ami Mizumo. AKA, Sailor Mercury. It's just a consequence of the "5 man band" structure. Every 5 man band needs a leader, a lancer, a smart "guy," a big "guy" and a heart. And, in that arrangement, either the lancer or the smart "guy" are usually going to be the serious type...

Anything that ends in "el" is an angel name. While angels have traditionally been represented as male, there have been several later depictions of female angels that still use the "el" ending. (This convention for angel names comes from Hebrew tradition in which "el" is the actual word for...