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Stone age sounds fun. I've been meaning to do a neolithic series, but with dinosaurs and monsters.

Heyyy! you're in direct contradiction from what you've already said! lol

Why does this person want to do it? A homage to your fiction as a fan? For practice? To sell and make money? Truth is, anyone can record themselves reading your book. That's not copyrighted, but to sell it is another matter.

I wasn't planning on being overt, just like I wasn't overt when I killed Sanderson off. All the bad things.

No, no one here. Now that you mention Dante, I know he put Muhammad in hell. Good refrence. I hadn't thought of that.

That a person? Don't know what you're referencing.

It's another writer. Not on here. Won't say who. Guess I'll have to subtly write him into my next piece of fiction. He's a real narcissistic weirdo. Do you ever do that, insert things into your writing? I killed off Brandon Sanderson in one of my novels, because of how much I dislike him now...

Chapter length is completely arbitrary. You can have one scene be a chapter, or you can have two-hundred scenes be a massively long chapter. You can separate scenes with a break or a title, or not separate them by any marker at all. If you want to see it in action, go look at the Prologue of Oni...

Breaking the fourth wall is about the narrator. The narrator is not the character unless it's first person narrative. The narrator can absolutely break the fourth wall quite easily, and can even slip from third person into first person. It's more common with omniscient narrators. I'm...

It took me years. The only thing that broke me out of the rut was the book I mentioned. There's some other books too, such as Killing the Top Ten Cows of Publishing, and then The Pursuit of Perfection and Why it Harms Writers. I'm telling you, you need to read those three books, religiously...

Of course you're afraid to write, good heavens! You need to forget about all that crap. Readers, commenters, comments, all of it. Forget about it. Write for fun, and if you like it, surely someone else will. Read that book Writing Into the Dark. The writers speaks to what the reasons are for...

Pirates will be pirates.

I have bullet point lists of names for places, characters, etc. I have a blurb, and maybe a few fragmented notes, and that's about it. Below are all my notes for Oni Rokura, a three-arc, four-hundred page series. This is typical for the way I do my notes. Notice how it's mostly just names for...

Thank you, I'm glad you liked it! For The Stone of Zambouli, the story is over, but it's a series and I have other stories. In fact, I have 45,000 words of another story in the series which is technically the first story from a chronological perspective, even though it wasn't written...

Had to be under 17,500 to qualify for novelette or smaller for the Writers of the Future contest. Still waiting to hear back from them.

I aint no author. I'm a writer! I did six thousand a day for several weeks, and it does get very tiring. Three thousand is much more sustainable, and like you said, it's a novel a month, which is actually a pretty nice pace of writing. It's over a million words a year, pulp writer speed. Love...

We hold the powaaaaa!!!!

My name is Author, and I have no idea what I'm doing. I'm a fraud, my readers don't deserve me. My name is Author, and I'm insecure about my writing decisions. My name is Author, and when I hate someone, I make them as a fictional character in my story and kill them off as gruesomely as possible...

I skipped most of that book and read the chapters I wanted, lol. He can be very long winded.

I definitely would not call it an "easy read."