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Install Grammarly. Changed my life as a writer. Even when I don't agree with it. Seriously, Grammarly would make an enormous difference for about 90% of the writers on this site. And it's free.

Actually, I was trying to base it more on a post-magapocalypse 'tailchaser's song. The chicklit sci-fi writers of the eighties, Tanith Lee, Andre Norton, C.J. Cherryh, Mercedes Lackey, and Patricia Briggs, were kind of my inspiration, because they wrote REAL supernatural and sci-fi lit without...

does that cause problems with finding hidden gems? or do they not really matter to you?

Okay, let me ask people what I am going to state for myself. It's 3 o'clock on your day off's afternoon (hypothetically). You are a little bored, don't feel like watching ANOTHER crappy series on Netflix or Amazon, and sex is not on the menu for the moment, and you want to take a break from...

I actually had a trilogy about post-apocalyptic sentient cat familiars written. almost 60 chapters (at 5k words per chapter), and then I saw 'cats' and it wrecked it for me. Fortunately, it wasn't a very good series.

So, apparently (according to his claims), he's been reading here for months without making an account and saving the names of every single novel he didn't like. And his rating system is '1 average' and '3 for the best of the best'. And so he finally creates an account, JUST to give 1-star...

I would welcome ratings on the covers in my sig. Except the one that doesn't actually have the title yet (patchwork helix) and my Kindle book, which I have been fighting with an artist over for two years. My suggestion, take it or leave it, is put a border around the outside, maybe 10% of the...

Then report them as bad translations. That's a bannable offense on this website, and one of the first rules. However, badly-written by people who don't really understand the art is... well... they are not judged that hard here, in hopes that their writing improves. And sometimes it actually...

Hehehe, it's almost like... if the writer started strong, and was doing really well, and then dropped the ball hard, that's a sin worthy of notice, otherwise you can't be bothered by idiots being idiots.

Yeah, I have met plenty of people who self-gratify by convincing themselves that their nastiness is justified. The rest of the world refers to it as 'Karen'. Just make sure you clean up your keyboard afterwards.

Pretty much this. Animal companions, especially those who have been trained extensively or have extended personality from some other reason, are characters. Characters that die are a tragedy. Betsy, who was raised from a calf by the protagonist, but in the end is just a cow, who gets sold for...

Oh ughh, and that stupid story that was basically 'groundhog day' on a magical world? I think that thing is STILL on RR's 'most popular' list, and it was painfully awful to read.

Meh, snake is gamey. You never want to pair it with a light flavor like most cheeses. If you want to use cheese, it's better to do it with feta in a gyro, or pretty much any Mexican-style flavor works well. Eggs are literally the definition of light flavor, unless you spice them to hell, at...

Read my mind. Animals generally taste good or bad. No reason to get all emotional about them. Especially if it's just fiction

There's a reason Steam just has thumbs up and thumbs down. Deep introspection is way too much to ask for in a YouTube culture that thinks 'the boys', 'the Mandalorian', and 'Game of Thrones' are anything but crap. However, your statistical judgement is flawed. You forget about the fact that...

The aftermath. I am actually dead serious. text combat doesn't tend to be that exciting, but dealing with the aftereffects can be deep fiction, If a melee scene IS that, I am dropping it. That sort of fight, with no depth, no real introspection, and no real feeling behind it. just...

That is exactly right! I mean, each character you create is YOUR creation, from your creativity. How can you hate them? Even if they are the most monstrous, evil bastards in existence... all that evil comes from YOUR imagination. Hating your antagonist is like hating yourself.

I kneel at the feet of the master.

As long as you tie up plot holes, it is an ending, at least to that story arc. As long as you still have gaping plot holes, the story is not over. The thing is, if you want to keep your story going, call a major plot hole resolution 'the end' but leave more for follow-ups. My own biggest...

And that would have been a fine answer. But he pulled the 'false logic fallacies' canard in a desperate attempt to humiliate me. That was rude as hell and casts doubts on the logic or reliability of anything he has offered.