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Whenever I try to write smut, it winds up existential and thoughtful. Turn out effing the mind instead of the body.

Cool. I’m just gonna continue to write 12,000 words a week.

THIS But seriously, humanity is a spectrum. Any person you can imagine probably exists because there’s like 8 billion out there… And there’s a ton of repetition. Honestly write from what you know first as a person. Gender/sex is just the backstory. Figure out what kind of story it is and always...

Use text to speech to catch anything you don’t catch otherwise. When you read something yourself you tend to self correct but a robot voice will read it just as it’s written. I stopped doing this because it’s so time consuming but it helps you verify that you got everything

Oh neato! I’ve been experimenting with multiple storylines formats. Providing links to different chapters is something that I’ve considered but not yet implemented. Is it relatively simple?

It bewilders me that they spent $1 billion on the production but only what feels like five bucks of time for the scripts. Music is great visuals are great solid directing but it feels like your early first draft fanfic. It’s pretty much literally Jeff Bezos funding his own fanfic. Although I...

Anywhere between one word and whatever doesn’t crash the page. I think that chapters above 4000 words and especially up towards 8000 words have such diminishing returns for how many people get through that. when you’re getting into like 10,000 words to 20,000 words you’re basically throwing a...

I used to use text to speech to make extra sure that my writings didn’t have any glaring mistakes but the problem with that is you’re having a computer basically massacre your words with the worst inflection possible. I only recommend it for the bravest who still love the writing after the robot...

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My rule of thumb is that a chapter must present, escalate, and then resolve an idea postulated within the confines of the chapter. Those chapters each add up to a collective accomplishment for the characters in the story and whatever else but the chapter must sort of have an animating thesis...

Paranoia that I somehow messed up continuity. My memory tends to flake and I’ll have a good idea but then I’m like oh shoot I’ve already precluded this idea because of something I said before and I feel embarrassed to delete the older thing

I am writing over 10,000 words a week by the seat of my pants and I’m mostly fueled by sheer panic of not making it on my self-enforced schedule. I think the worst thing you can do to tank your word count is give yourself too much of a break that it breaks your tempo and schedule. It’s like...

I’ve seen lists like this before, but none of these are particularly definitive. It’s complicated to really pin down. Most psychology classes are either full of it or biased along the way that instructors were taught. The best way to really get a grasp is to hang around somewhere where you can...

Does bloodless gore still count as gore? Two characters I’ve written suffered injuries from like a shadow monster that struck them and just sort of erased an arm and an eye from existence with just sort of a rough scar instead of an open wound. Would that be considered towing the line or does...

It works however you want it to work. With third person you can decide to get inside someone’s head or just leave it to context clues. I like a ghostly observer who is able to pick up on things but doesn’t give away the whole game. Almost like a DM with some mind reading ability. Omniscient...

I like the concept. The issue would be how the idea gets executed. It sounds like the kind of thing that a manga or anime would get some definite criticism for but also sounds fun.

It’s weird because sometimes the word count actually increases depending on the encoding. Wherever possible I try to strip it down to plain text so there’s not garbage characters or anything like that being counted and I get an accurate word count. It tends to be a problem going from some word...

Yep I get that a lot transferring from Phone to desktop style formatting. I redo the pagination and that’s usually where a lot of the character variation occurs in how the words are counted.

When I get depleted, I read. I read 250 books so far this year then realized I needed to write again. I now write 12,000 words a week.

First person is a lot like a journal geared towards a certain tone. The character doesn't necessarily go on with "I saw" "I did" all the time. It's pretty much exactly like how third person would describe things like. "The walls caved in on one side with mold festering and peeling off the...