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    Why can't some people capitalize their I's?

    i have never personally seen a story in which people haven't capitalized their i's. That would certainly be annoying though, if i were to see one.
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    How do you write arcs with lots of things happening in them?

    I often have so many things going on in my story at one time that end up linking together in the end, so I'll share my thoughts on this. 1. Always have a checklist somewhere that has all the things that need to be addressed by the end of the story. This can be a scene by scene description, or...
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    Recommendations Weak to strong, ANYTHING

    My story fits all of those descriptions except for the non humanoid one, as my mcs are all reincarnated as various beings that are nonhuman. https://www.scribblehub.com/series/122482/undetermined/
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    How do you write a villain people love to hate?

    Hmm this is a good question. When I approach my villains, I have a lot of variety between good and evil. Most of my 'true villains' are people who are absolutely despicable, by my own standards- but there are still many ways to do this. Here's the deal- some villains are extremely evil, for...
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    What do you prefer to read-

    So long as it isn't unreadable grammar, I usually can ignore some awkward wording or basic issues in a story. Now, here's the thing- I feel that there are usually some lines that are supposed to be really epic and built up to, so if bad grammar makes these lines less epic, then that is quite...
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    Writing Deadlines...to be or not to be?

    My writing schedule is daily. I have a minimum chapter length, and write one chapter a day (Sometimes two if I feel extra motivated.) As far as specifically finishing arcs or volumes, I tend to be relatively lax on that. My opinion is that if I try to rush things then they won't be as good as...
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    All About Editing...

    I edit twice. Why? I have 3 chapters which I work on per day. The first is the one in which I write on a given day. The second is the one in which I edit for the first time, which is usually somewhere around 40-50 chapters behind the story's current status. The first edit is for a few reasons-...
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    How do you get over the sadness as an Author?

    I mean this is probably because I don't write as a career, so there is no stress for me, but I have never found any of this 'sadness' that you speak of. I mean, sure there have been times where I felt that my writing quality isn't as good as it used to be, as a matter of fact I tend to think...
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    How long are your fight scenes, and how you can make it longer?

    Well, my novel's fights.... In the early novel, they were mostly RPG based, with a lot of numbers and rolls, but in the later section of the novel my main characters "outgrew" that type of fighting, because they became so ridiculously overpowered that it didn't even matter. My fights were...
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    Preferred Story Ongoing Length

    As a reader, do you have any preference as to how far along the story is when you first start it? Do you want to start a story with only 1 chapter released, and then view it ongoing as each chapter gets released, or does this discourage you from reading a story if there is only a single chapter...
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    Writing Habits That You Can't Break

    Couple of things I do with dialogue 1. Very often, I will have a character go on a rant. And I mean like a rant. Probably about 100-200 words, and this isn't a rarity in my writing. It's usually for a purpose, or to demonstrate a long thought process, but I do this more than I should. 2. I...
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    What is the preferred frequency for chapters release for readers?

    Thats what I like to see in readers. Tired of these weak readers who can't handle the release.
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    Writing Synopsis

    I mean, I just sorta did a list that describes my 4 main characters personalities and traits. Whether that's good or not, eh. But it gets my point across.
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    units

    My structural analysis professor once said: "What are the units?" Student: Negative. Professor: "UNITS, GENIUS!!!!"
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    As an author, how do you plan out your stories?

    Indeed. For my story as well, there have been some things that I planned to happen initially, which I ended up completely changing just because of how things progressed. For example, there were a couple of characters who were originally supposed to die in the end, but I ended up liking them so...
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    Forward Progression: ?

    From my perspective, well, at one point in my story I did actually change from 3k word chapters (at a biweekly rate) to 1000 word chapters daily. However, I stopped this for almost this exact reason. With only 1000 words, its entirely possible that someone could read an entire chapter, and...
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    As an author, how do you plan out your stories?

    Do you plan an overarching plot, and fill in the details as you go? Do you try to plan out a set of big scenes, and build up to them? Do you just write one chapter at a time, and see where it takes you? At one point or another in my writing career, I've written using all of these types of...
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    Writing Prompt Imagine you're a "Hero of Justice", but then you have a rotten mind. (which makes her antagonist)

    My entire novel plot is something like this. My main characters, who are all demented and broken in their own way, are given the role of villains in a world, whereas an evil prick is given the role of the hero. To further things, my main characters stick to a very particular set of morals- that...
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    I wrote an entire character as a filler side story where they were originally supposed to be...

    I wrote an entire character as a filler side story where they were originally supposed to be just some random person that my mcs were asking for directions and they ended up taking a major role in the next 3 volumes of the story. It was awesome.
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    Writing How do you write worlds?

    Well, for my story my world started out being built off a general plot, that is- there was a monster realm and a human realm which are supposedly opposing forces, but from there I made a large map of the world, and have been using that as a guide as my characters explore around it.
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