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I write mostly gender bender stories and have remarked upon the genre elsewhere in these forums in more depth. But, in brief: 1) There's an element of fantasy / wish fulfillment to it. It's similar to why isekai fiction is so popular here, too. You might observe that people would flip out about...

Different authors are motivated by different things - that's so obvious that it almost goes without saying. I think it's important to understand how you are motivated to write, though, because the framing is actually really important for deep introspection - for figuring out both how you tick as...

My writing style is to write chapters composed of scenes that are anywhere from 500-1500 words long. Generally speaking, I'll write out a whole chapter arc, which could be anywhere from 4,000 to 8,000 words. Recently, I've been taking these "real" chapters and splitting them into sub-chapters...

If it was me, I'd just pretend to be a for realsies serious author and post a collection or anthology. There's no reason that your "chapters" can't be independent stories.

I'm not sure *one* reader is worth it, since you with the time you put into storytelling, you could just tell a story to a few friends and be more impactful than reaching one reader. But, if you think of yourself as an entertainer who enriches people's lives, even having a small audience means...

What genres do you like? Any examples of other stories that float your boat?

One way to get proofreaders is to ask your readers. Post an announcement at the beginning of your chapters to ask for beta readers, with the understanding that the proofreader will get to see the chapters a few days earlier than everybody else to proof them and give you feedback. Sometimes...

I suppose that depends on what you mean by "slow progression". Some of the stories posted here take the form of web novels and can be hundreds of thousands of words long. They have multiple arcs, each of them spanning a standard novel length. However, these novels also tend to be fairly episodic...

I write roughly half and half and usually do 3rd person by default, but switch to 1st if I think 1st person exposition will be more entertaining to the readers (usually for comedic effect). The real benefit to 3rd person is controlling exactly where the narrative lens is at all times, whereas...

I procrastinate from my irl job to write. :blob_facepalm:

Unless you're dealing with deep philosophical or social issues in your work, virtually all fantasy is escapism. And, in a slightly looser way, all non-highbrow fictional entertainment is a sort of escapism. There's nothing wrong with it (I love fiction), but immersing yourself in imaginary plots...

I think it depends on how it works and whether you want to involve a scientific understanding of animal behavior. Young humans are often impulsive and foolish, in part, because their prefrontal cortex has not yet fully developed. Presumably, a very long- lived individual would be fully...

I recently started a novel, Visions of Dark & Light, that has a major Girl's Love subplot - I don't list it as a GL genre because it's mostly an isekai fantasy and only one of the two POV characters figures into the plot. If I summarized the plot from the FMC's point of view, I'd describe it...

In my novel, A Princess of Alfheim (only on Patreon at the moment, but might come to Scribble Hub soon), most of the action takes place in the fae realms, where the fae minority rule over the other races due to their powerful magic and mystical bonds to the fae realm. In this realm, the humans...

I dunno, that includes an awful lot of stories. In fact, it might be kinda mainstream. I'm more into stories that are best-sellers by virtue of being assembly instructions for cheap furniture that just happen to have popular genre tags.

If you're interested in writing a compelling story, then any authorial decision that you make, POVs included, must ultimately consider: will this make my story better? Since we're posting stories here on Scribble Hub and not publishing them professionally, then sometimes the answer will be very...

If it hasn't been pointed out to you already... unless it is a deliberate choice on your part for some reason... you've got a grammatical error in your title. It should be A Chance to Become an Adonis, since A is a vowel. I'm sure many people don't care, but errors in the title are a definite...

One of the things I like to do is add descriptors of character actions and reactions before bits of dialog, including sounds. This serves to add personality to the character and add all sorts of non-verbal tics or habits. It also breaks up the monotony of saying 'she said' to tag your dialog...

I'm on the same page. I think my purest "good" character is Anise, a very kind and well-meaning (and sheltered) young woman who, when her well-intentioned acts are rebuffed or don't work out, says deliberately hurtful things to the people she cares about. And who, when her wicked uncle was down...

That sounds fun - I enjoy stories with wily, clever protagonists, but they're hard to write. I assume the starting tech level is at least very late medieval or early Renaissance if they've got matchlock. My own protagonist mostly just flees his foes so far - he came into the world with a pretty...