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So, I'm looking for an older video game that i can't remember the title of. This was probably 20-25 years ago. i remember my uncle and his friend playing it when I was just a tyke. I remember it was a 3rd person isometric (i think??) kinda like diablo or the old PS2 baulder's gate: Dark...

your favorite stoner food combo - animal crackers with mayo, saltines with ketchup, pizza dripped in bbq. Because it's a story I'm writing because *I* want to read it, and it's hit-or-miss or anyone else.

It's maybe not the most helpful, but the best way I can explain it is put yourself in the mind of the character. think about what THEY would say, not you. believe it or not, but reading is a skill - a good reader will be able to accept dialogue is good if it's self-consistent. other than that...

Either I create a character for the name (if I think of the name first, such as the dragoness Nephy in my oneshots and Lay the Dragon novels), or I use fantasynamegenerators(dot)com. Though with spells, items, and rarely characters, I make them something to laugh at. Like in my novel Two...

It kinda depends on how it's done. I've seen it done well and terribly. yes, the outline there is a prime example of bad multiple multi-year time skips. but in the lives of elves (due to long lifespans) or in the case of training, it can be done well. in R.A.Salvator's Homeland, Drizzt (the...

I'd say with that, a soft skip should be fine. if it's fairly uneventful other than chopping wood, you could sum it up in a sentence. "He then spent the next few days chopping and trimming logs." if there was a small event, you could toss it in as a separate clause on the end of the sentence...

a general rule of thumb I follow is: Soft - a short enough period of time for nothing of note to happen. Rather than describing every little step of a walk, or everyone MC sees, just gloss over it was "he walked" or "He went about his life for a week". Hard - A long enough period of time that...

1, yes. it's a literary tool same as any other. all of my stories have time skips. 2, it really depends. you've got hard and soft. soft: MC sets off for a new shop. (new paragraph) MC arrives at the new shop. You've literally skipped the few minutes of travel. hard: MC arrives at the town he'll...

In high school, I was a member of a club known as SL (for SubLiterature, but the joke was that it was actually for Shitty Lit.) The whole point was to read and dissect cheap, crappy novels, then rewrite them better. I don't even remember specific titles, but literally, we'd go to a local 2nd...

Galileo, Machiavelli, Dante, The author of Mein Kampf... jokes aside, no, most readers don't want their authors dead.

Oh, I wasn't thinking I was the first. I'm definitely not that original. I was moreso looking for references for traps to avoid with such a case. If something is popular, there's bound to be a reason.

a reference to me I missed? :blob_unsure:

I was also considering the fact that in isekai, it's almost always the MC that's been transmigrated. even in cases as weird as the vending machine one. hmm? Is that a SH story?

I'm unsure of exactly what you mean, but A Succubus' Love (in my sig VV down there) features a succubus as the primary love interest (and it's likely the slowest burn romance-to-smut that i've ever done). Plus the MC's sword is his best friend and it's got kind of a twisted sense of humor, so...

Hey all, I'm sure some of you remember my talking about my poll-operated Create your own novel (Two Face in my sig if you're interested). And I'm sure at least one of you has read it (seriosuly, it's growing a LOT faster than I thought it would, and i appreciate each and every one of you). But...

I'm still an amateur, but I'll look into them! and I'm personally pan, so I'm not really against any particular pairing :blob_aww:

I'm currently in the process of learning german. I should've liked to read it, since more exposure to the language is never a bad thing. :blob_joy:

it's been estimated that the human brain can hold approximately 2.5 petabytes of data. Now, the issue with this is that it's not strictly information as we think of it, but that includes scents, tastes, emotions, and physical sensations of feeling and other various bits. it's literally a...

I put on youtube or spotify for background noise, check my socials because somehow I'm actually growing a fair presence (slowly but surely), then I sit down to write, taking occasional breaks to reply to messages. Every other day I reread my most recent chapter of whichever story of my current 4...

Quite right. Comedy is the telling of jokes with the intent to bring laughter. Why did the chicken cross the road? Because he escaped my cleaver. Humor, on the other hand, is situations that cause laughter even if they don't intend to. The guy watching the chicken cross the road was laughing...