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  1. CarburetorThompson

    How thoroughly do you plan a chapter?

    Planning is all do. I’ll plan out an entire story start to finish, and then just never write it because that’s the boring part.
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    Looking for advice - MC's gender.

    Bruh, I should just scrap what I’m writing and make a gender bender story
  3. CarburetorThompson

    You must've never met anyone from the Balkans

    You must've never met anyone from the Balkans
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    Looking for advice - MC's gender.

    Why not just choose all options and make it a gender bender story? Those always do pretty well oh SH
  5. CarburetorThompson

    Darkest Chapter (Comedy Optional)

    My latest one shot. (I say latest but I wrote it 2 years ago.) was probably the darkest thing I’ve wrote. The setting is very bleak, based in a war over violent occupation and racial oppression. Story is written from the pov of two fighter pilots. It has strong themes, of past vs future, despair...
  6. CarburetorThompson

    Post your characters, and I’ll tell you what I think about them [Smash or Pass Edition]

    Nah everyone’s free to answer. More fun that way
  7. CarburetorThompson

    Post your characters, and I’ll tell you what I think about them [Smash or Pass Edition]

    Had fun reading SallyG’s thread. So I straight yoinked it and thought doing this would be funny Rules are mostly the same (I stole them) except #4 it’s a yes or no question, so I feel anyone can answer. Also added 5 1. You post one character at a time. If you want to post one more, wait for...
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    The most bat-shit crazy premise you can imagine

    I had a story inspired by my own dreams, it was very psychedelic and hard to put into words, but the premise was: Every time the character woke up, the consciousness from his dream would be sent to a new world created from dreams and memories. The citizens are all consciousness from previous...
  9. CarburetorThompson

    How do you use the slice of life genre?

    My favorite stories are those that mix slice of life with action/adventure. Pacing with a few slice of life chapters that lead into and set up some action driven chapters, then lead out with more slice of life chapters that set you up for the new action driven element. Love stuff like that
  10. CarburetorThompson

    Maybe if you’re doing graduate studies, but I have my associates, and am doing my bachelors...

    Maybe if you’re doing graduate studies, but I have my associates, and am doing my bachelors right now, and it’s never been particularly difficult. But I have my degree in transportation management not like computer science or chemistry so I can’t make any generalized statements
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