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Based on the quick summaries provided here, A New Hero God is the only one that sounds particularly dynamic and cool (though that might just be the descriptions here).

Verbs are one of the best sensory tools in the English language. Thesauruses won't have much ability to help you here, because the best verbs have a lot nuance behind them. "Crunch" in this case is a substitution for "step on" but there's so much more detail with one word change. So for authors...

Now when everyone on Reddit says the same exact opinions as everyone else... it finally makes sense :blob_shock:

Whenever people type in robot speak like "Can confirm. Am a fighter fighter." and cut out the subject out of all their sentences, it annoys me more than anything. "Was a bad day." etc. I know, I know, descriptivist linguistics are better and I shouldn't complain about the way people's writing...

Oh my word, you're playing into Netflix's hands by even thinking about this. They did it on purpose! They got this Sundance indie foreign film, probably overpaid for it and wanted to make sure people saw it. They knew it was a movie that criticizes the oversexualization of young women and took...

This thread is awful, mostly because the OP, but also because y'all keep arguing with a teenager. Honestly the thread is getting creepier than the disgusting move by Netflix (which was another one of their patented Controversy Machine tactics).

This post is a good example of the way that stereotypes can adversely affect an author. If their experience with people of another culture are people who are going around spouting off big things like "Japanese men are bad and effeminate" it can influence authors to perceive that to actually be...

I would like to recommend my quite clean fantasy romance Hands Held in the Snow. It's complete (or will be on SH in a week or two), it's cute, and it's got strictly PG-13 sensibilities--the themes are sometimes mature and about dark subjects, but there is very little sexually suggestive content...

When Tony Stark comes back in a later Marvel movie in like 5 years, it'll be applauded like crazy. Deaths in stories tend not to make me move in a certain way, with some major exceptions that are spoilers to note. I appreciate Quentin Tarantino movies (and his countless imitators), where the...

I am awful at keeping up with serial stories, no matter the medium or genre. I prefer to read or watch or play later at my own pace... even if I am always way late to the party (I still haven't finished She-Ra lol)

Reverse the sense of wonder and amazement. In a normal isekai story, the MC is typically floored by being in a new world with a new culture and completely new locales, and that's a conduit for the readers to feel the same way. In a reverse-isekai story, the MC feels the same way, but the setting...

I have the Quinlan Circle Discord, which is the best server on the entire internet, the envy of the planet. All of the cool kids are on there. https://discord.gg/wbmyyjK Not very many readers come to discuss the story with me or ask me questions, which honestly I am very OK with, but readers do...

I think it's just 14 year olds lol

Spring-Time was definitely the best story of the bunch, but I am surprised my hypothesis that the votes would be more heavily weighted towards the stories submitted earlier appears to be wrong. There's no real correlation to story placement and votes, which is a good thing! I'm glad for all...

Here is an extensive list of fiction sites I made back in March. Check them out.

If you want to get funky and nonlinear, technically anytime you reread your own work and critique it for how you can improve that, that is constructive criticism, too. Criticism of a "different person," AKA your past self.

Guess what, the chef is in the house and has delivered to you exactly what you have asked for: Hands Held in the Snow, an adorable fantasy romance story! It is NOT an action story in any way.

Googling obscure minor islands in East Asia for the purposes of alternate history timelines is always an odd one, especially when you stumble on an island so odd it developed its own English/Japanese creole language.

Final bump; If there is someone who wants to do this review swap, please let me know in the next week or so; I'm going to be going mostly-offline for a while starting on August 7th or so, and I would like to lock down a story to review before then if possible.

I do see the merit in trying to prevent authors from making big tonal shifts, like the people who write "wacky comedy parody" stories but then by chapter 6 everything is already serious and edgy and there's an elf getting sexually assaulted or something. But I feel like there are too many...