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I always wanted to write a novel. And now I'm on my fourth :)

Is crutch => Is a crutch Worse of all => Worst of all :s_smile:

Yeah dump the info dump, so to speak. Keep it on the side and slip the lore into the story in easily digestible snippets. It's great that you can see where you're going wrong, just keep that critical eye on yourself and don't let yourself slip into anything you think is 'off'. I think sometimes...

How about using the Chinese name, but including the English translation as a sobriquet? A bit like in Game of Thrones the character Sandor Clegane is sometimes referred to as 'The Hound', your queen could occasionally be referred to as 'The Orchid Queen' as a bit of a nod to the literal Chinese...

I think there's quality and then there's medium convention and the two don't always overlap. Consider how much of this forum is devoted to meeting the convention of web novels (1.5k chapters released once a day with waifu covergirls, no traction till 50 chapters etc.) It doesn't mean you're a...

Ahh... Bapa Nara

My ideas tend to cannibalise each other - I've basically got 3 ideas atm spread over half a dozen story concepts.

The most fun I've had reading was probably this hilarious Demon Queen story: https://www.scribblehub.com/series/207438/the-lesbian-demon-lord-conquers-the-world/ But the best written; I'd probably have to give it to Interstitial Entity, a fantastic pro-level piece with deep character writing...

gumption, self-loathing and a fistful of your preferred industrial strength narcotic.

Thank you Corty, you absolute ⭐!

Could I request a recipie for a nice warming steak and ale pie next please? It's really chilly up in north England :)

Yup, I have it to hand in fact: "Some nicely written dialogue and not a bad set of characters. Could've used a little bit more setup perhaps but interesting. I'll be keeping an eye on it." It was the first thing I ever wrote, and I remember being terrified when I clicked on the link, but...

Write it down and then slip it away into a folder somewhere. I think every writer should cultivate a folder of half-baked ideas. Eventually future works will be able to draw on a catalogue of semi-developed character ideas and story beats to help augment the main idea.

I think that bigger sites don't necessarily translate to more views. I've posted on small sites that only get about a dozen chapter uploads per day, and the upshot of that is that pretty much everyone lands between 500-5k views/chapter. On a site like this with hundreds of uploads per day...

Start doing a chore you find particularly tedious. Within ten minutes you will start daydreaming of something else you'd much rather be doing instead. Finish your chore, then do that other thing.

Probably about the time everyone decides to go back to the island :unsure:

Polish vodka, triple filtered, flavoured with the tears of an infant hummingbird and just a touch of saffron

I feel like the bar is gonna be a fair bit higher. Like, if I see a fantasy epic with a trans MC, odds are I'll give it quite a charitable go because there's not a massive amount of pro-level stuff out there. If it's not got that specific hook for me, I might still give it a try, see if it...

For C, I think the rythmn you use to describe a scene can convey a sense of the character's emotion. For example, I recently did a scene where the environment was described in really short, choppy sentences to give a sense that the MC was feeling anxious and restless, nothing was holding their...

Yeah I mean I admit in reality people would probably skim through it, sadly. I think we basically agree.