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I've had issues finding good books. So yeah, I write more than I read.

There was a book on creativity that talks about how alot of creative people fail because they wait for inspiration to come to them, or to hit them. But it said, that's not how these things work. You start doing, and the process tends to start itself. The only time you don't write is when...

I think it's okay to use AI for cover art, but it's too tempting to get ChatGPT to try to write it for you. I saw an AI-written war poem once, and it was rather lacking. Checked all the boxes for technical writing, totally lacked emotionality.

I like slash horror (not to be confused with slash fiction, or slasher horror). That is, comedy/horror, romance/horror, or fantasy/horror. Pure horror seems overplayed to me.

You're running into an inherent problem in your desires, the objectivist hero (see Ayn Rand's thoughts on altruism) versus the altruistic hero. The problem with altruistic heroes (aside from what Ayn Rand mentioned) is they need flaws, and the most ready one is they tend be self-important...

Hot Tip: at least some of us hate (I mean LOATHE) the I Have Made A Manga/LightNovel Yet I Have No Idea What To Name It So I'm Gonna Shove A Bunch Of Words In Because That's What Other Manga/LightNovels Do style. There are two very classic ways of titling books: X of Y, or The X. Villainous...

I read one novel description that I gave a hard pass simply because it was about a page long.

Well, uhhh you can read mine. Town of Winter. It does fairly prominently feature a foxgirl. But it takes her about 11 or 12 chapters to hit front and center of the story, and there's some biography like stuff in the meantime. If you're okay with her being the love interest vs the main...

I use the horizontal line and add Author's Notes directly after the chapter. Like this. When I add them. Most of these suck, though. They're random comments about parts I like.

Turning it into an image (or a page image) might actually be ideal. Yes, someone with real determination might still hack it. But here's the important part. If you can manage to get 80% of people to stop, this is a good thing. More importantly, a visually accurate picture creates an unintended...

Just to be clear, it should be possible to copypaste (say from a ODT or DOC) on the edit page? But not from the published page. I think the easiest solution would be to make it unable to be highlighted. If you can't grab anything, and you can't Select All, then I can't see how you could copy...

Angels do look metal as fuck. Aside from Norse religion, Christianity is the only religion that really gets the metal genre.

Yeah, it was the extinction aspect of all of this. They were the Nephilim. Half-angels. The Mark of the Beast in all likelihood is some sort of gene-engineering thing (e.g. an attempt to do the same thing) rather than just a tracking chip or something. But all of this prophecy is at odds with a...

Well, and Jesus even said that ppl would look at him and say "He is a glutton and a drunk, a friend of tax collectors and sinners." Basically at the time, he had more messed up reputation than Trump (that's saying something). Although personally when I'm writing religious stuff, I try to find...

Oh no, that isn't serious religion. That's my own religious ideas, independent from the Bible. You just need to... I'm not sure sure if it was Elijah. Or if it wasn't being old rather than bald. But I am quite sure it was two she-bears. (Checked) It was his follower Elisha, and it was for...

Well, he didn't abandon us (or we'd be dead before our first breath). But I also find it fascinating that on the one hand you think we deserve punishment but on the other, you blame God. Either God is responsible for our suffering (then Revelation isn't valid), or we are responsible and God...

Ugh. Revelation was the one book I outright tore out of the Bible. Alot of ppl think it's the most exciting part. Until your realize that humans are the ones who lose in this thing, and the entire thing reads like a bad temper tantrum (it also contradicts the Gospels, making it subject to...

That's awesum! I actually like the Bible, along with other religious text, and use religion alot in my books. Oracle of Tao has mostly Taoist stuff, but Jesus shows up as some sort of shapeshifting superbeing. Town of Winter continues the trend, also making him a foxgirl (it makes sense in...

Ugh. There's that word. Editing. I tend to write over the 50k word average for a novel (I find it an arbitrary number), with Oracle of Tao roughly 390k. Nevermind, I was having fun. Until it came time to edit. First obvious spelling, then typos, then I found unfinished paragraphs where the...