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Moriarty in the books is barely even a character at all. He's someone who Holmes suddenly starts talking to Watson about in the final volume of the first run of the series, stating he'd been tracking the guy and has finally got him cornered. And then, when they go after him, Holmes and Moriarty...

I find this really quite silly. Here I've only written a very small number of fan fics between my wider body of work. One was a cross-over fan-fic with characters from two pre-existing franchises that I just wanted to see cross over, and I used established world-hopping mechanics from one of the...

That's just what it looks like when the job market is saturated. It becomes a "buyer's market" because there are more available workers than there are jobs for them, and the employers can get away with asking for experience because there actually ARE workers available who have experience in the...

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Not over time. The fact these terms appear in the first 2 paragraphs is cripplingly immersion breaking, and makes a reader feel alienated. It's fine to introduce the terms in-world via the writing. In fact, that's best practices to a T. However, all the in-world introductions of the terms in...

This is the exact reason I have not yet started the 4th series I have in my head, and wound up ultimately abandoning my second (a new hero god) after only writing the intro. I did not have a firm idea on the high-points in the middle of the story for A New Hero God, and I don't even have a...

Just took a look. The new first paragraph or so is a HUGE improvement from what was there before, but it still has 2 rather major problems. 1st, you use too many unfamiliar in-world words without properly introducing their meaning. 2nd, you still head-jump way too soon after the introduction...

Inquisitors = scary / negatively charged emotionality = tangible. Suffering of slaves = pitable + culturally charged as something we as a people have come to largely reject. These are both something that is strong and able to hook the reader, even if they are a little harder to identify with...

Help? Yeah, it'll definitely help. You're also going to have to work on your hook though. I am not exactly sure who even was one of your main characters in that prologue, but what I do know is that the 1st character I saw was not really all that appealing to me. You didn't have a good hook...

I took a peek at your prologue. It was frankly shit, and it's not because of the length of the chapter. It's because you keep head-jumping and this makes it so the reader cannot get invested in any one character, and every scenario you present is shallow and uninteresting. You say you want to...

Thanks, that actually helped a lot.

I dropped Death March half way through the 2nd to last book. My opinion about it, having never read the ending, is that the single most disappointing thing about it is the fact it didn't end sooner. Seriously, up until book 9 or so, the series is typical Isekai trash, but still somewhat...

It was worse, then Tony figured out something he could do in the algorithm that seems to punish smut somewhat. I have no idea WHAT he did exactly, all I know is that now the smut stuff doesn't hit the trending charts as often as it used to. Same goes for wifu cover pages. Whatever's keeping wifu...

Well, I mean, some of the goddess figures in Journey to the West are pretty bad-ass. If that's not high fantasy, I don't know what is. EDIT: On the subject of Journey to the West, Tripitaka is damseled almost endlessly. Seriously, about 25% of the plots in that series are the MALE priest...

See Lord of the Rings. Note: Galadriel Note: Eowyn With the exception of the plot point in which Eowyn is frustrated about her inability to easily go into battle and win renown because the men around her are keeping her from doing so, either of those two roles could just as easily be filled by...

I have 4 different Isekai stories that I'm working on (not all published.) I try to make their method of death something that references the plot you're about to see on the other side in miniature. In "A New Hero God," I have the protagonist who is a child psychologist die by taking a bullet...

No, not really. Rather, for spoiler-related reasons, she actively does not want her child to love her. But, it's actually from something of a place of caring for, again, spoiler-related reasons. (Fantasy magic and stuff is involved.)

I'm working on a story, but I am having trouble writing interactions between the mother and the MC. MC is a reincarnated person, and he was born in a prison cell where his mother is locked up and chained to the wall. The guards have decided he should stay in the prison cell with her for various...

Got my potty training nephew to use the toilet and keep his underwear clean today.

Simple. Try to identify the cause of your writer's block and address it. So far as writer's block goes, writer's block is not the disease, it's a symptom. So, try to figure out what it's a symptom of. The most frequent causes of writer's block are stress, burn-out, lack of proper nutrition...