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    Stories that I hate

    These are the types of stories that I hate to read. This is purely a rant and in not meant to be a constructive discussion. This is also personal opinion, but since my opinion is the correct one you can just take it as fact 1. Man vs god stories. I’ve seen a lot of these particularly isekai...
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    What do your scene breaks look like?

    Haven't published anything in ages so for a placeholder I’ve just used three underscores ( ___ ) What do yours look like?
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    Cold Takes Thread

    Give me your coldest takes. What are opinions you hold that you belive everyone else agrees with you on.
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    Are illustrations an excuse for bad descriptions?

    Reading light novels recently, almost all with have at least a few illustration. I think thats a contributing reason as to why light novel character descriptions are so bare. So, for you is it okay to have little to no character descriptions if it has included illustrations?
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    Recommendations Kingdom Building Stories

    This is my newest autistic hyper fixation so please help me out
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    Chanting spells

    What type of magic chant is better in a story
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    Best undead pirate

    No I don’t count vampires as undead before anyone says something
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    Air combat in medieval fantasy

    Read a lot of japanese fantasy light novels recently and air combat is real big theme. Gonna make an opinion poll on what’s best
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    Best doomsday weapon?

    What would you use to destroy the world?
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    Bare minimum for a superpower

    I’ve seen plenty of discussions on bad or the worst abilities to give a character, but what are the barely passable ones like? It’s easy to come up with a bad ability like ‘the power to tell magnetic north whenever you stand on one leg and touch your thumbs together‘ but what about an ability...
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    Thoughts on time dilation stories?

    To me a time dilation story is a story with an unequal time skip. Something where more time passes for some characters than others. Like an event happens and a character is trapped in a magical realm for what feels like a month but is actually several years to those on the outside. An example...
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    Rereading > First Read ?

    Have you ever enjoyed rereading something more than your first read of it? And if so what was it?
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    Using tags that will appear in the future.

    What are your thoughts on this? When you list a novel it helps to have a bunch of tags, but it isn’t very advantageous to post all your chapters at once. What do you think about tagging a new story with tags that will appear in future chapters, but aren’t available to read when it is first posted?
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    Do you write out of chronological order?

    Not asking if you write non-chronological stories. Do you ever write your chapters out of order? Like you’re working on charter 1 but before you finish it your decide to do some work with chapter 2? I’ll do it rarely, but only when I have a tight plan already laid out. Just curious about others
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    ‘Weapon’ families

    Seen this troupe in a lot of fantasy web novels and comics. Usually has to do with a noble character. It usually goes something along the lines of ‘This is a sword household no son of mine will be using a Warhammer!’ I just find the idea of an entire blood line only dedicated to a single...
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    What’s the coolest ‘elemental’ magic a character can have?

    Also which characters with that magic do you like?
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    Unpopular Opinions

    Been awhile since I’ve seen one of these. I’ll start. I hate prologue chapters, I always skip them. If the prologue Is essential to understanding the first chapter than I’m not reading that story.
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    How many of you actually use the SH discord?

    Title. I always forget that I'm in it
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    Character you like more than your mc

    Do you have a character in your story that you like more than your mc, but know that even if you like them they wouldn’t make a good protagonist?
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    Top 5 Fighter Jets

    We all got threads for vampires, dragons and what not. Now it’s my turn to self indulge. 1- MiG-25 2- YF-23 3- F-15 4- J35 the based Swedish one not the cringe Chinese one 5- Me-262
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