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1. How your first draft turns out doesn't really matter so much, as long as you edit it properly. To catch awkward sentences, you can try changing the font and reading it aloud slowly. Helps with spelling errors too. (Changing the font makes it look new to you, so you're less likely to correct...

I don't think Stockholm Syndrome applies if nobody is being taken captive? They plan a murder together as acquaintances, they carry it out as lovers~!

You could also have murderers falling in love while carrying out a murder~! I have a BL pairing like that...

Ikea (popular with lesbians for uncertain reasons) The doctor's office A crossdressing convention A class for learning to swim like a mermaid A hetero group date A murder scene

Mr Cuddles (or Loki)

I wasn't expecting so many people to be unfamiliar with this situation. I'll add a little clarification in the OP.

I'm fine. It's not that I can't write, it's that I Identify that a character will become grating to readers when she should be dearly beloved, that a certain cast member detracts from every scene they're in instead of adding to it, or that story elements that should be coming together in one way...

*shrug* Maybe most people haven't noticed it yet or don't care enough to fix it.

I also use loose planning sometimes, but I wasn't really referring to that. Rather, if something - the entire thing - is resisting development when you sit down to figure out your plans for the story.

Do you have ways to develop characters and plots that aren't coming together before you start writing?

Sometimes solely negative reviews are very helpful to other readers, though. Reviews exist for the purpose of helping other readers judge whether or not they want to read the story, so even if it's not crafted in a nice way to protect the author's feelings, negative reviews do their job...

I have plenty of crazy and eccentric characters, but I find that most of them still benefit from a rewrite. They also eventually run out of steam or end up getting themselves into situations where they're disliked anyway. Besides, plot and supporting character issues can't always be solved with...

It's not really technical problems like words I'm talking about, but flaws in the way the characters were built and the story that you decided to tell. Those either show up before you start writing, when you get stuck figuring out how to get from A to B in the plot, or suddenly after writing a...

It happens to everyone: the story you so carefully planned turns out forced and uninspiring, your hero is flat and one-dimensional, your complex and interesting characters suddenly stagnate and stop cooperating... When a predicament like this rears its head and stalls your writing, authors have...

Nowadays, with the growth of the internet, it works the other way around. Publishers are getting lazier and lazier, I've been told. They want you to advertise your own book and, like most industries, they want to take as few risks as possible.

I don't know about being a bad writer or not, but I've always found that taking the time to respond to writing prompts helps to train a writer to develop ideas and think outside the box. I tend not to write much for them - a little section, or a short story at most. Writing prompts that demand...

I guess I have an excuse to sneak more story into that erotica I was planning, then.

It says bestiality counts as real-world animals, so unless someone manages to prove that mermaids and werewolves are real, you should be fine? Also, mermaids are people, not animals. (Although I'm more surprised to learn that "pornographic stories" are forbidden.)