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I read a thread about immortality on novel updates (too lazy too look up link) and it had the following question: what would you do if you were immortal? The thread had conditions like infinity memory capacity and eternal youth, and it also excluded any possible way to "kill" yourself...

Part 1: introduction This thread is a mix of a rant, a blog, and an immature analysis of a cliche. Reading a few light and web novels in the past few days that had romance subplots for either the main character or a side character, I came to the realisation of why despite me generally hating...

I love reading romance stories: bg, bb, gg and what have you but they all, with rare exceptions (or no exception, if you bar tragedy from the list) go downhill for me once the leads start going out together, no matter how good the story itself is. And I don't really like dropping novels midway...

After I post a new chapter, I'd log in a bit more frequently to sh to check if anybody left a message for about one to two days, after which I log in as usual

Recommend me your novels where the protagonist (by your intent) exhibits behaviour that is obviously detrimental to them. That can be an addiction, acts related to mental problems (not even necessarily illnesses, just problems) etc. Naturally, they have to tackle the aftermath of it all too

This likeness is a bit funny. Thought I'd share

Back story for the prompt: Yesterday, I tried something similar and seemed to have failed. Now I want others to try and see how it may turn out. The goal of the prompt is too see how you can convey the characters through their speech without excessive "fat" is the writing. Prompt rules: write a...

Whenever I enter a chat room on a forum like this, I can't help but notice how a lot of people have their own, unique-like styles of expression, making me feel like even without changes in tone, or any particular verbal ticks like "uhhhh... This... So" etc, it is possible to express one's...

I am interested in writing some short stories sometime, but I want to make it an interesting challenge for me. So, I'm asking you to give me some prompts that can't be easily devolved into a generic plot with a quirk, yet not complicated enough that half of the story would have to go into...

We've all seen stories that are so bad they are actually good, but how about stories that are so frustrating that they are actually good? I've read a couple stories like this online, where on the inside I feel like the story is really pissing me off, the ways the characters act and just... are...

I have this weird problem that I write in long sentences and then see that the aforementioned sentences are hardly readable and then add dots all over to break them up into smaller, more comprehensible sizes, which turns my sentences weirdly choppy and lacking in the pacing department, which...

This idea seems kinda cool. I am certain such a thing is coined in literature somewhere but I couldn't find it. How's it called?

People seem to mostly write AI's as normal humans, which is something I consider bad. Before today, I never did, however, imagine how to write one that feels more AI than human. Then I watched a random video on YT(forgot who made it) that highlighted the differences between an AI and a human...

What I understand is that, in writing especially so, when you want to scare the reader, you have to give them a scary atmosphere on the scene. As for how exactly to do that, I honestly don't know. Quoting Eminem, "I don't know how to make songs like that, I don't know what words to use"...

I have been thinking of writing a story where the protagonist(s(?)) want nothing more than to maximise their and others' despair, and, while I'll probably only imply and never show or tell the very gory and disgusting details like cannibalism, self-mutulation, pedophilia, necrophilia etc, so it...

We all know excalibur, mjolnir, aegis and other cool generic fantasy names. How about we come up with some cool-sounding fantasy weapon names? 1) Read it on a dnd forum. Extreme prejudice. Perfect name for a barbarian: "Hulk eliminate with Extreme Prejudice!"

Before, there used to be a bar with numbers under the series list on the main page and you could choose any page (up to 1000 iirc) to view and see updates. Now you can only choose to either go to the previous one or the next one. Strange, why did the site managers remove that functionality?

I think this should have a name of its own. Saw it described here: https://forum.novelupdates.com/threads/teasing-romance-but-never-really-going-through-with-it.124428/

Doesn't really need to be an explicit show of power, like the slaughter Ainz did in third season of Overlord, can be a psychological mind game between several people, but it can be something like how the character is treated. Though, of course explicit shows of power are appreciated too. Mine...

...and I'm lovin' it