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The saying is disconnected from its original context. It only has this socioeconomic connotation(which is valid, the world sucks) because it happens to have aged in a very specific way. The original, intended message from 3000 years ago is still very important, and rephrasing the saying for the...

I have a oneshot fic (5 pages) I wrote as a lore document for a oneshot D&D session many years ago. After four years of occasionally revisiting it, adding more stuff to its ideas section, and so on, the time has come for me to write something serious on it. It is ready, and I am ready, but I...

The protagonist (specific term: audience perspective character) is the person whose eyes, ears, and mind the story is most interesting viewed through, or whom pushes the narrative most effectively. If they don't do these things, it usually means they're a 'false protagonist' or a 'disconnected...

Someone complained very angrily and viscerally in my DMs that my male protagonist being sexually submissive was ruining their enjoyment of the story's COMBAT. My response: Umm, what?

Obligatory: "The author owes you nothing and their creative drive to continue a project is the only reason it continues. If they abandon it because they are creatively done with the project, you are an overly entitled prick for complaining about the lack of free stuff from someone who owes you...

Bad endings are when the story ends for reasons outside of the logical conclusions of the narrative. Anime and other forms of TV adaptation has this all the time; ran out of book material, made shit up for an ending, it feels unsatisfying. In the space we all write in, it would be stuff like...

For me at least: The more 'realistic' you make combat (I am solely within the realm of medieval), the less your readers will believe it is realistic. Combat is brutal, lightning fast, confusing, and complicated. The layman's perception of combat is epic duels and shaky cameras, 'conservation...

I have a backburner fic about categorically bad superpowers being acquired by a group of college students in a DCU mockup. One of the powers I love writing is the primary love interest's, she can reverberate impacts she makes. It she punches something, half a second later a 1/2 strength of her...

"Irrelevant. The only thing that matters is that you are currently a duck."

I have many power systems but all of them always follow the same rules no matter how visually and mechanically different 1. Accomplishing the same thing in no way means it took the same amount of effort for each person, and common sense dictates that unless someone has the exact same powers one...

I absolutely do. The character will likely never appear in a posted fic though, mostly because I've only written them in a series of oneshots, but in general I love writing confident characters who see 'and then I die' as a reasonable and acceptable conclusion to their own stories. Cocky...

Look, all I'm saying is that is that there are two types of people: The people that get scared when the void stares back And the people that blush.

Try smushing them into unrecognizable smears on various surfaces instead of simply stabbing or exploding them, it always takes the edge off for me.

I will throw C'thulu at them. Whether they choose to suffer the knowledge or revel in Eldritch attention it is up to their personality.

As the title implies, this is a small glimpse into my idea graveyard, a document of concepts, some more fleshed out than others, that I've determined I cannot do anything with despite liking them in isolation. -A magic system where memories are fuel for casting spells, the more important the...

I prefer to think of two types of prophecy, 'Intended' and 'Made'. Made prophecy is an event or series of events that WILL happen, and as such could be considered to have already happened, making them history, in the sense of your question. Intended prophecies are the more interesting type to...

13th's protagonist used to be the antagonist, even if that was only true while she was dead.

Tl;dr Stories that don't know what Grimdark is, whether they're trying to aspire to the false ideal or trying to reject it. Grimdark doesn't mean 'take the the most dystopic parts of Warhammer 40k lore recaps and write them into your novel'. I call these novels Fakedarks, since they weren't...

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Depends. I have a tendency to post immediately once finished until there is like 5-6 up, then sit on at least one but sometimes up to 10. Typically, I only stack chapters up unposted if it doesn't make sense to give an audience more of the story until it's mostly written. Avoids most of the...