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  1. John_Owl

    I will tell you when and why I stopped reading your story.

    its smut, so readers beware but I'll toss mine in the ring: DragonBound. And however you want to give critiques. Some people don't want to make public that they read smut, so it's your call. (Also, Smut is kinda misleading. It's got a storyline, but there is sex where appropriate for.)
  2. John_Owl

    Pay me to give you your ideas

    Sorry man, I've got ideas galore. My next 3-5 years are booked solid with uploads.
  3. John_Owl

    Writing about the opposite gender.

    This is why I write fantasy. any major issues can be glazed over with "magic". Or it's an entirely different world. perhaps humans evolved slightly differently there. Or I write fantasy races. Perhaps elven or dragongirl or whatever biology is different enough that what's a concern for IRL women...
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    Writing about the opposite gender.

    as others have said, there are two major things you need to be concerned about: 1, don't make her some stereotypical "female" whose whole personality is "I'm a girl. I have periods. I'm overly emotional." women are humans. they're largely the same as men. the differences come down to subtly. as...
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    Review Swap.

    My review is posted. It only covers the first three chapters, but I will definitely continue reading when I have a bit more free time.
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    Review Swap.

    yes, that'll work. I'll likely be able to write the review today or tomorrow.
  7. John_Owl

    Review Swap.

    Since you didn't leave any guildelines for rules, I'll throw mine in. each chapter is marked NSFW if it contains NSFW. the prologue is one such, so feel free to skip that if you wish, and I haven't had a chance to update chapters 2-about 15 ish yet, so they are unedited. but I have chapter 32...
  8. John_Owl

    You can go back 100,000 years to a cave that will be discovered by archeologists, what do you write on the wall to mess with them?

    "Extraterrestrials will visit in" followed by a bunch of scribbles, then say "Carl keeps erasing the year. my bad."
  9. John_Owl

    You get to be Isekai'd with three wishes

    You are correct that in matters of fiction, things follow any rules laid out. logic or not. As such, I feel both of our statements are valid, as OP didn't outline specifics. Boss, not shareholder I said. Meaning manager. not owner. a department manager likely won't own shares in their company...
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    You get to be Isekai'd with three wishes

    it's incomparable. It still follows the laws of physics. you're building a machine. a god granting a person powers greater than the god themselves, well... conservation of energy would mean that energy has to come from somewhere. you can't run the machine for a week on a day of fuel. and magic...
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    You get to be Isekai'd with three wishes

    You're right that it wasn't mentioned. It was less a limitation of the scenario, and more a limitation of sense. It doesn't make sense to me that a god(dess) granting wishes could grant you more power than they themselves have. Or, for that matter, equal to what they have.
  12. John_Owl

    Using HISTORY in fiction: (The Lounge Podcast)

    mostly medieval history. I have a handful of historical channels I watch on youtube that give me ideas that I integrate into my works. Considering mine are high fantasy, it's not easy, but it's doable (such as using "arming swords" as opposed to "short swords", or using gambeson tunics as light...
  13. John_Owl

    I'm losing hope

    the issue there is, according to the readers i've spoken to, they don't generally fantasize about the pairings i do. I've got lesbians and milf-focused men, while most of my characters are petite or muscular. also, when I say not great at interpersonal, I mean he can make friends easily...
  14. John_Owl

    Envy's Free Feedback Thread [Thread Closed]

    I will offer up my story, DragonBound. Link is right there, in my sig. Just click the left most coverart. I will request that you skip the prologue, as it's not edited properly (I just recently got an editor I can afford). I had him run chapter 1 just for you, so that's the only one that's...
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    I'm losing hope

    My current run is harem-smut, but I have a hard time writing stupid MCs. They're usually smart, but lacking in one aspect, since intelligence shouldn't be measured as a single blanket number. My current MC is good at singles combat and smart when it comes to battle tactics. But he's kinda stupid...
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    Rewrites and Reordering

    well, with the rewrite, I'm looking at correcting grammar, extending it out, and correcting multiple issues, from pacing to spontaneously appearing characters, etc. with the reorganizing, I'm looking at primarily separating out anything related to my main line series. for instance, I've got a...
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    Recommendations simple and weak but ingenious

    have you checked out the Xanth series by Piers Anthony? The first five novels are good, the next 5 are "meh", but after that the quality drops. It comes to feel more like a dating website. "remember this character from 3 books ago? now they're the main character!" But the premise is along what...
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    Rewrites and Reordering

    So, just a couple of questions regarding the TOS for this site... 1, rewriting. I'm looking to rewrite a former story to make it longer, better planned out, better paced, etc. Would this be allowed if I remove the original? Or would it be considered in poor taste? 2, reordering. If I want to...
  19. John_Owl

    I really don't understand why people like Itachi...

    indeed. Plot becomes tertiary when you enter the realm of smut, which most of the works on SH seem to be. This is evident by the relative success of my first story. I reread it the other day and... I couldn't stop cringing at how bad the damned this was. Pretty much every word was terrible. but...
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    Does anyone want to do a challenge with me today?

    Considering I'm already 4k words ahead of my posting schedule, I think I'll pass. I've got both of this week's chapters written, edited and scheduled. Actually considering writing next week's chapters, considering it's only monday, and a week without writing will be torture for me...
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