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2024 was officially the hottest year on record. It just barely beat the old record from 2023.

The hardest jobs depend on who you work for not what you do. The hardest job is that one where your middleschool bully is your boss. And he still hates you. And he secretly has 100k of stocks invested in a rival corporation. And he is intentionally sabotaging your projects and is trying to...

It was late at night at my grandma's beach-house. I was listening to the sound of waves and a train passing outside town, while I rubbed my hand across the bars of my crib. The crib had an interesting texture to it that made it fun to grab, having hexagonal bars instead of cylindrical. With how...

Tastes like carcinogens and microplastics.

Coffee.

To clarify, by grey you mean a protagonist of intermediate or ambiguous moral quality? Half decent person but dedicated to their vice maybe? Or maybe someone who will save the day but is always a jerk about it?

Indeed, I am talking specifically about this style of synopsis here, regardless of if it is used for fanfiction or original work. It used to be the case that most synopsis have outside perpective, that is the point of view of "someone who has read the story" addressing "someone who might read...

I tend to prefer longer chapters than most people. 8k-10k is about a size I like, but most people like around 4k-6k words. As an author trying to be read, about 3k words may be optimal so you show up on recent chapters more often, but aren't so short as to annoy readers.

This is not different than how many mortals live their lives anyway. Right now there are wars and famine in countries that have nothing to do with me. But when I close my eyes I can still hear them scream. "Why do you get to live? Why do you have food to eat? Why do get to live in a warm house...

https://www.scribblehub.com/series/1370435/is-unlocking-the-stellaris-tech-tree-in-star-rail-really-okay/ is an excellent example. Its not like I am expecting much from a fanfiction of a strategy game, but I am seeing this style of synopsis in a lot of places recently.

I promise to do what I want to do immediately at the moment I want to do it, and not wait until newyears. I also promise to not tell myself that "I should do" things that really I don't want to do.

I have noticed a trend lately. There are a lot of stories that have these incomprehensible synopsis that are more like a series one line opinions that in world characters have of the protagonist. I find them unhelpful; they tell me little about the characters or the world they live in, or the...

I do not like sadist villains. Antagonists who just want to hurt the protagonist because they enjoy hurting people. I especially do not like yandere stalker annihilation villains, where the antagonist sees the entire world as the obstacle to their love for the protagonist and wants to kill...

I realize I'm being crude with this one.

I can see how these words have similar context in English language.

I do not expect there exists anywhere in the world you can comfortably live on <1000$ a month. However, stay the heck out of the desert. Climate change is giving those miserable desert people hot tempers to match their hot summers, and in the immortal words of Mark Twain, Whisky's for drinking...

Basically, I still get horny the same as most people but it just doesn't make me actually want to have sex.

Birth scenes (the baby's out part, not the screaming labor part). I don't usually cry at a character's death, but when one is born I always do. By the way, are you sure this thread belongs in "authors" instead of "readers" or "general"?

That looks like a gloriously masculine vision of war and conquest. I would expect the MC to be able to take a dozen bullet wounds and then still bench press 130kg. Its normally the kind of cover I dismiss out of hand as targeting a demographic I do not participate in.

I haven't read many hardcopies lately. I think the last physical book I read that wasn't a physics textbook was "Dragon Princess" by S. Andrew Swann. The book was about a dragon with a gambling problem who tried to body swap with a princess he kidnapped to escape his Debt to the Fey. I laughed...