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Normally mostly stuff fitness center, but that's more or less off limits for a year now :D So I got a bicycle ergometer for home for cardio. So right now it's more or less 4 times/week dumbbell training, 3-5 times a week cardio training, and every morning a small wake up workout of ~30 minutes...

It's not as if I judge anyone for their behaviour... It's more towards drama in and of itself and the style of "passive aggressive discussions". And while I also have my thoughts on smut, I just don't think it's worth all the drama... To me time could be invested so much better. Especially if...

If you look at story theory, then stories are tales about change meant to answer the questions of people with similar thoughts/situations through actions and themes. So the easiest way to come up with new ideas is to either find an interesting question the story should answer or a...

"fucking mental" would be my description for it... :blobrofl: But maybe I'm just not enough into drama anymore. Great, now I feel old :blob_teary:

Just write a good story for a clear target audience. You'll end up in trending most of the time without doing anything. And if you really want it for big reader-numbers or whatever... pushing yourself into trending only takes a bit of work. So if a simple announcement beats you in popularity...

Depends a bit whether it is a new genre in terms of story movement or just a setting that is a bit different. Space Opera, Hard SciFi, Militaristic, and all that are sub-genres of Science Fiction. So if you go for such a new setting, you target audience will most likely be a subset of the...

(As long as we aren't talking hard sci-fi) the Science in a book isn't about science itself, but a plot device. The super-hyper faster-than-light drive of your space-ship isn't anything different from the horse cart in your fantasy world. The difference between the world-ending black matter...

Reading a book - especially long-running webnovels which can have hundreds of chapters - is a commitment. You want people to invest the most important thing they have: their finite living time. To go with a somewhat helpful comparison: Think of your first chapter as a movie trailer. Your blurb...

Maybe It's only me but I have to say that the word count limit would turn me off from ever entering the contest (way more than the question of the entry fee). For most authors short stories are either a one-off or - imho more often here - a way to kickstart a new story with motivation and the...

At the beginning I also had that rush when I saw new readers. But I stopped myself, because that can hurt really fast when your reader count drops and you feel worthless because someone on the internet stopped reading your stuff... For one of my old novels I had someone write me a PM where he...

Was the same for me... hence I wrote this thread :D

I would argue that thinking about such things is already useful before you wrote the first word. It should lead to a more uniform start of your novel... Of course. Funny thing, in my mother tongue it's normal to just use the "male form" and imply the female form for a lot of things, so it often...

So your question is "Do you like free money"? Guess the answer :blobrofl: Welcome!

Okay, right from the start: the title is a lie, clickbait, and awful in itself. Because I won't talk about awful readers. But it also targets towards newer or less confident authors, who often struggle to deal with negative reactions. And after reading a lot of threads about "the first bad...

I'm glad I saw it so I can correct it for future readers and leave a small note for readers who already read it. Most people throw their first or second draft out here, a lot also publish as they write and not after the story is finished. So errors are normal. It's normal for published authors...

I think another reason is, that SMUT often is accompanied by LitRPG, Isekai, Gender Bender, Girl's Love, Harem and the like. These tags have an active target audience on this site which will generate a lot of "early" attention, driving it towards trending. For action stories or other tags they...

I would say "Yes". Any criticism is valid, even if they aren't matching what the author wants to achieve. To me, a written story is like a conversation between the author telling a story and the reader listening to it. And to each conversation there are four sides: (1) what the author thinks he...

So far no fiction has managed to leave me scarred as I can clearly separate those things from each other. But some managed to stay in my mind for a long time because of their theme or implementation of harsh "real life problems". One who managed to give me a new world of thoughts and ideas was...

Honestly, there is a lot to like in there overall. But I never really warmed up to either the series or the universe. I probably was a bit too late and the overall hype probably made my first impression worse... and now I neither have the time nor motivation to jump into it. At least it's a...