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  1. DireBadger

    Do you use swears in your fantasy?

    In one of my stories, (Ther sci-fi fi I haven't put up yet) one of the characters actually bemoans the fact that 'universal standard' language tended to take away most of the good swearing from Russian, English, German, and french. Now, 'scrot' replaces pretty much every curse word. "Scrot the...
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    Do you use swears in your fantasy?

    By Titania's T**s! Fantasy swearing is awesome
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    Is plot armor actually that bad?

    Plot armor is just a term people use to try and criticize writers when they can't come up with a legitimate complaint. It's meaningless. Deus Ex Machina? That's a real flaw, but plot armor? merely being the protagonist in a story based on Earth is a one in eight billion chance. Complaints...
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    Death Isekai - Ideas on how to kill the MC?

    I am working on story where the isekai guy is literally death, and he keeps getting sent 'on vacation' to a mortal body, and. of course, he can't die permanently.
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    Stories Getting Destroyed with a Reason Being SaiD.

    If I write myself into a corner, I will also tend to kill a story. I mean, I usually have a beginning, middle, end, and various plot points I want to hit over the course of a book, but what happens in between is what I write... that's my process. But sometimes, I get too excited, race too much...
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    What Do You Dislike About Isekai-Reincarnation Stories?

    I hate it when the author puts in like a 3 chapter prologue, before truck-kun plows the character, when it could have been started in the very first chapter, and told in snippets of backstory instead. And yes, I have done this myself, but at least I reastrain it to the REALLY weird backstories...
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    Is it ok to use AI for references?

    AI art isn't stealing. the crap like 'scraping' you have heard about is just a made-up term that completely ignores how AI art is actually created. old-style compositing, THAT is stealing, but for some reason, the AI critics consider that somehow morally superior. Scratch someone who complains...
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    Stories Getting Destroyed with a Reason Being SaiD.

    I end stuff for three reasons. A. it's unpopular. Not every story idea works, or if the idea works, it's the wrong time for it to be popular. If I don't get positive feedback on a story, I won't waste my time on it after the first 400 or so pages. B. I get too much flack. I write stuff that...
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    Update content warnings to include AI usage

    The Buggywhip manufacturers and slave plantation masters salute you. Stay the course. AI is as evil as electricity, hygiene, and the automobile combined! AI-written content is crap. It always has been crap and it always will be crap. Guess what? 95% of DeviantArt 'art' was crap long before AI...
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    Morality vs Survival

    This is a small example of a huge problem. It is the Trolley Problem on a small scale, but on a large scale, it is something you have to decide on every. single. day. It is the question of justice versus mercy. Justice demands that you attempt to save the largest number of valuable people...
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    I Only compare myself in words written per hour. I beat almost everyone else :)
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