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    What is a silly thing you have looked up for your writing?

    Snail sex for oddity. how to spell leprechaun for frustration
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    Do you do anything special to reward yourself after writing a certain amount?

    I reward myself by writing more. I do eat something nicer when I finish a project as a little celebration but mostly it's like now do more
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    How to increase the quality of writing style

    I can see what you mean very quickly. You're describing things but there's no reason for why these descriptions are being told. One thing you can focus on is limit the omniscience of the narrator. Paired down on details. Decide when you want to reveal a thing. Writing practice is a huge benefit...
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    Which is the scene you are most proud of having written?

    Character's valiant last stand against the forces of evil trying to take over her mind. So she uses her imagination to hold them off as long as possible and talks back. I stood up again. "Well, my name is Layla...Archabean...Regalia...Eggers...and I am the weakest thing you will ever fight. So...
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    What is Your Longest Story So Far? (Chapter wise)

    403 chapters [Going to be at least 410] but it's six novels in a series. But the chapters average about 2600 words each.
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    Writing tip and advice that didn't work.

    It's kind of my own advice but to write every single day. That just does not work. It works for Brandon Sanderson and Steven King. There's gonna be days where you need to take a break and process what you wrote. And there will be some days nothing will stop you.
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    Daily Wins Mega Thread

    I wrote one of the coolest paragraphs I've ever imagined and then to follow it up my muse deposited not only a story idea about a fantasy elf in the modern day as an anime but she gave me a fight scene with the most badass line given to a character I've ever seen. I'm tempted to share it because...
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    Progression of Story Ideas & Concepts

    One thing I try to keep in mind whenever I write used to have one idea which stays the same through all drafts. Things can still evolve and good writing is where you don't know where it's going to go on any given day but you're willing to think on your feet and fuse things together so that they...
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    Is there any proofreading website worth paying for?

    Here are the links to the two I mentioned by the way https://www.deepl.com/write-mobile - this one I initially found on here actually and my caveat is it kinda sucks but offers multiple ideas for rephrasing and I think it's actually learning over time. Most of the time it's kind of dumb but if...
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    Rejected from Royal Road for a "sexual cover," now posting on Scribble Hub

    I stopped bothering with Royal Road because the people there get all uppity about something all the time.
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    Is there any proofreading website worth paying for?

    Just do deepL and quillbot with a little bit of Grammarly. You always have to correct most editors with what you prefer over what it decides. Because so much of editing is choice and style in the creative fiction sphere.
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    Do you like (as select like) your own chapters?

    When I jump into a session of writing the first chapter I write of a given set is going to be absolute garbage. And the last chapter or the tail end is also going to suck because I'm exhausted. But there's a sweet spot when I got a flow I know where I'm going and those middle chapters are just...
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    I have written myself into a corner

    Why skip over your experience with a lot of odd people? Use that. Everyone has weirdness inside. Those social settings if they're uncomfortable are going to be weird they're going to have every little moment and feeling that you felt yourself trying to figure out how to socialize. And even if...
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    Something is wrong with me (I can't write as much as I used to)

    I have been writing 12000 words a week for 1 1/2 years and burnout is real. I take Fri/Saturday to not write after reaching my goal so I have editing distance. Then Sun zero writing or screw around random creativity. Mon is a easy transition back with outlining and notes and some starter ideas...
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    Stories You Want to See pt. 2

    It's one I want to write soon which I had I dream about but it was sort of a weird mixed technology time uncertain western style story where this family lives on this homestead away from civilization farming and the eldest daughter has been away for a while and the younger brother is excited to...
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    Daily Wins Mega Thread

    I finished almost 13,000 words in like a day and a half for most of it.
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    The pros and cons of ChatGPT and other AI writing tools.

    It's fascinating but I actually found that AI in certain precisely controlled situations can be more emotional than typical dialogue. I found that the best use for AI writing is when you give it a lot of background text and it understands the goal and you let it create some thing for a very...
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