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I spied a heavy, looming shadow across the drapes of my window. Throwing them open revealed nothing on the other side but the shadow remained.

Okay but I took 40,000 words for my epilogue at the end of my story...so that's like....pretty long from the eight months to write and almost a novel by itself.

What I do is, as I need stuff, I come up with it. There's some stuff I start with but I try to rationally think through what would work in a world and what the pieces I have come up with do.

I have an upcoming story which is semi-autobiographical with a lot of adult language and the relatively mild description of a teenage character's fantasies and physical feelings towards another. They're both technically 17 and starting their senior year of high school but would it better to just...

I did that once with an infinitely-large library. She looked up and up and up…She had to stop when she nearly lost her balance. A vast structure loomed beyond her sight into a sky dominated by its gray, ridged presence. In golden letters, each bigger than entire buildings, it said, "THE...

All I can think of is the insanity of me trying to world-build on speedy schedule. Would not recommend. It's like speedrunning a puzzle while you're still cutting the pieces.

Oxford ruined English centuries ago. In the Middle Ages, people just spelled everything like they wanted to and like it was spoken. Then the Latin-lovers had to come and tell us "we need rules" to make English a serious-business language. Even since then, nothing makes sense because English is a...

One thing to remember is that some readers are human. Some. And they can only get a chance to read on like the weekend. Or they're writers, so they wind up with no time to read for fun. I like the pace of two updates a day because it conditions consistency. I had to take a week off to write a...

The conclusion to a 440,000 word work with 8000 words in one night. I put it off for months because I didn't want it to end but it was so cathartic to be done.

Hmmm, I feel like this is the format I use anyway. I often minimize the standard version of reality for the character though. Nine years ago, beings who look like anime girls seemingly started appearing in the world. Known as the "Kinrae", they live among us, quietly and peacefully. [World...

I write to work through the sad.

And how do you want it to play out? ------ I have several. I have an idea for a fallen royal named Clavis Trine from a sci-fantasy world, with traversible wormholes called "rackereys", where the matriachial ruling class have subjugated the species who once ruled the planet. Clavis greviously...

I would check our YouTube's free use audio library because they are grouped by theme. There are also trailer type musics which can help you immerse.

When writing for a format, style morphs to meet it. At times when I just write to write, I'll go off on pretty things and lovely notions and digressions but serialized writing it like a clock saying "get to it get to it". Like in one thing I'm writing I use where the characters are positioned...

This is probably my biggest problem as a writer. I only recently finished a project which is 440,000 words long and written all before publishing it. I wrote the vast majority of it very fast and then the last 8000 words were something I put off for six months before finally finishing in a day...

A few thoughts, I like your thirteen years ago opener but if you want to also do "It starts with" I would pick out one since it starting several times is a bit unwieldly to process. Let me see umm. It starts with the girl with the bleeding hair in the middle of the monster filled mountains It...

A little/bit/sorta/seemed like/it appeared like. I lack confidence so I need to keep these words out more.

I have a bee race in one of my stories and am considering flower petals of a certain species as a standard measure, also trying to have the geek bee wield a standard distance for flight, like how bees in hives do dances to show how far something is. Bees must have a metric of judging distance.

As a consequence of reading this (I just hemorrhage ideas I can never find time for), I just came up with a fun idea for a harem protagonist. He does something clueless and dumb and winds up with a curse whereby if he isn't holding a girl's bare flesh, like her hand (or something else), then he...

It tends to be a little like a what if game for me I play when write. I will give myself some scene like a farting cow and wonder like "what if this was massively important?" Like if I have a character and they live in a multiverse but there is only ONE version of them in the entire...