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Dude, I edit my self-published books on Amazon KDP. You'd better believe I edit my stuff. The problem is, by the time I get here, it's like the second place I go, and not as much energy. So not nearly as often, unless I have a major story revision.

The audiences have spoken. With a butt that big, she needs breasts too. Bring the creepy sexy back.

Aaaagh, disqualified out of the gate! My novel is kinda a mashup of western magic and sorta cultivation stuff. The origin of all magic is the three gates of dantian (upper, middle, lower) with energy circulating through runes. Basically, it's an internal circulation of energy interacting with...

Please no reincarnation. Have him be dreaming and the dream world be an alternate world he visits in his dreams. And have him get wounded in the dream once (maybe a cut on his arm) and show the readers that his sheets have a small amount of blood where the cut was (he doesn't notice cuz he's...

I finished Town of Winter in record time (probably would have qualified for the writing contest where you finish in a month) because I focused of progressing the story, not on having everything just so. It took five years to write Oracle of Tao, and even with multiple edits, I still didn't...

I just think magic systems should be cool and provide mechanics for how things work in the story. That is, magic is technology (and vice versa). How does your character get around? He flies on dragons, he uses a Gate, he time travels, or sometimes he walks (alot). Ditto for fighting. My magic...

Why would you do that? Guys are ick.

When the author feels the need to bullet point features of the story. Now, I've probably listed features of games and stuff myself, but telling what a fiction is like beforehand like this, particularly with "if you don't like then leave" says that alot of people have basically commented badly on...

Well, here's an example using a company-created fangame. Some of the Inuyasha 3DS or PS2 or whatever fangames have original characters. Inuyasha, Kagome, the setting in the present and the feudal era are all the same. They may even get the same voice actors. They obviously do make money from a...

Keep writing? I usually read stories once they hit the 5 or 7 chapter mark. One-shots tend to feel disappointing.

You can, but you often don't. There is a disgusting amount of the following: -Boy/girl is a loser -Said loser gets hit by truck -Author pretends to be a god and offers said loser (who is also the author) cool powers -Which get more and more demanding and story-breaking as time goes on -Also a...

I'm getting really peeved at the rise of isekai/reincarnation stuff. It basically took over the fantasy genre. Please please please can someone find me something where there is actual worldbuilding, where the character is born there, and there isn't yet another cheat character? Also, no...

You should always be overt when you kill off Brandon Sanderson. Also, if you do in fact kill off an author, you need to kill them off like characters in their book (running Terry Goodkind through with the Sword of Truth, burning Robert Jordan with balefire).

In-Between Blockage. When you've finished that book, and that idea for the new book is just not coming.

These parts often seem boring at the time but later on there are parts that pad travel scenes, making it not feel like "They went here... then they went here." That is, the stuff about the carriage bumping or some chat at a campfire during a slow period actually are the bricks that hold the...

Generally inserting a character just to make fun of them makes for bad writing, as Meg demonstrates. Likewise, When It Died thinks that South Park began to fail when they started getting fixated on Trump. Generally, to make good fiction, you have to be pretty neutral. South Park didn't pick...

I typically do not get blocked while writing. Once I start, I get into a sort of rhythm, and I don't really need to stop (the drawback is spelling or grammar sometimes suffers). But I am currently blocked because I am between projects. The worst feeling is when you do not know what to work on yet.

Typically, when I think of evil weapons, I think of things that corrupt the heart or mind. Usually some sort of sword, that the more you use it, the more it messes with you. Having watched asian dramas, the most evil weapon I have ever seen was not a physical weapon but a specific technique. I...

If you re-sorted chapters so they were in reverse order, would the average person understand this? Basically, "Previous" takes you to the next chapter, because the chapters are ordered in reverse. Or would it be so weird that they'd stop reading? I'm thinking of doing it for Tales from the...

Hey you don't be calling me fool, fool! I pity the fool. White Mister T approves. Oh, maybe you were talking about the fool in the original post (it's just that it immediately followed my post).