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Hey, everybody, keep an eye out for my latest serial: Help! I Was Reincarnated As a Story Title and This Is Literally The Only Way I Can Communicate

Not bad! It tells the reader what to expect with enough of a question to leave them wanting more, and it has no liabilities that would detract an otherwise-interested reader. It could use a little polish, but I'm sure the same can be said of all of mine.

Honestly, there's almost zero chance that I'll read a story with a title like that. I usually make my reading decisions based on the synopsis and tags, not the title, and I don't think I've ever seen somebody writing "I Was Reincarnated as an Armadillo, and Now I Think I'm in Love With My...

In my story, Consequences of Magic, both of the characters who undergo gender bends (Natalie and Vince) are back by the end of the novel. Of course, Natalie (originally Martin) underwent a swap in the first novel (On My Best Behavior), so it's a reversion back to being Natalie again, but I think...

In my experience, schooling and practical skill are two separate axes, at least as far as artistic pursuits are concerned. There's some correlation between schooling and skill in that it's rare to see somebody at the top of their game without some formal education in the arts (whether that's...

Unless you're trying to adhere to a specific fantasy or myth tradition, the lifespan of fantasy races is entirely up to you. Heck, the lifespan of humans in your story is entirely up to you.

You're thinking like a true writer!

Getting your first one-star is how you know you're a real writer. Welcome to the club!

The comments that I receive are largely (overwhelmingly) positive and usually without a whole lot of meat to them (e.g. "great chapter!" or "what a cliffhanger!"). Occasionally, I have a person reacting extremely negatively, usually because some of my stories have a lot of sex and violence in...

I think this is fair. It's fine for somebody to correct you if you address them incorrectly, whether it's pronouns or something else. This is no different than correcting you for calling them the wrong name (e.g. "Your name is Laura? I thought it was Lisa! I'm sorry... I'll be sure to remember...

I don't know how else to get across that asking people not to be assholes is not, in fact, a victim mentality. And for those people who that repulses or pushes in the other direction? They are, in fact, assholes, and I'm not sure there's much point in attempting rational discourse with them...

There is no social requirement for you to be decent to other people and not be an asshole. But getting upset when people don't show you the modicum of common decency and respect to refer to you as you wish to be referred is not unreasonable and it is not playing the victim. People have the right...

I like superheroes enough that I wrote a novel about them so, yeah. One of the things that I don't like about the superhero genre in general is that they generally (but not always) do a poor job of A) portraying how regular people and society would react to superheroes being real and B)...

Glad to help! Happy writing!

Generally speaking, you need some sort of narrative device to make the split make any sense. Basically, what Ral said. If you establish a pattern of having some chapters be 1st person from the main POV narrator and other chapters be 3rd person from the POV of other characters, that might be one...

There's a good reason that the language is evolving. The old language was pointlessly exclusionary. Of course, as writers, it's our job to command the language for the sake of narrative, and sometimes that means delving into that weird old language. For instance, one of my villains is a 300...

I'll second what Farok said and add something else. What Farok was emphasizing here is mostly word choice, which is absolutely important. However, knowing what to describe is just as important as how you describe it. We aren't painting pictures or taking photographs here, we're writing. If you...

Back in the olden days, they used to use "he/him" for default, just like they used to say "man" and "mankind" in short for all of humanity. It sounds super weird to modern ears, but that's how it used to be. Personally, I find no problem in conversing online or IRL without needing to reference...