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    I can change a Chinese novel character with my own and use same setting?

    I have also done it. Oftentimes? Nah, I can't even imagine myself getting caught doing plagiarism. But you see, that's just pure optimism. When someone borrows your homework/paper to copy it, usually we assume that they'll at least do the bare minimum of changing and make it different. But...
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    Nowadays, it's harder for me to remember parts of my dreams, unlike the past. The most I can get...

    Nowadays, it's harder for me to remember parts of my dreams, unlike the past. The most I can get is only "I just dreamt something" as I wake up, not knowing any content of it. Forget about androids, this real human can't even dream of organic sheeps anymore
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    Dear Everyone: Sorry Been Such A Downer

    You're not obliged to receive a share of their burden. No one is asking you to take it. I'm sorry, but this is general chat. SHF profile post is too short for the thread, and it still has no blog section. What writers and readers? It's here: Not here: It's okay to be rude because this is...
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    Yes, I'm actually asking for it at this point

    Sometimes I love Aztecs because it has no significant number of believers in this world. Which means it's a guarantee of 99,99% that I'll not be lynched if I said I dislike it. I suppose I want to see the religions I dislike to also get Aztecs'ed. To not OOT from the thread, I looked up Book of...
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    Your response to injustice

    If there was no the wish granter who guarantees the consequences you give, then I'll pretend you never gave these consequences in this thread in the first place. Why? Because life is not so white and black or two sides of a coin only. Yes, this is a question about some novel idea, but fuck it...
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    Your response to injustice

    I have a question, are these consequences (living in a mental prison/the abusers not punished) supposed to be the result of having to pay the price by the wish granter?
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    Having trouble with adding footnotes

    the draft doesn't even have hyperlink function, so I don't think you can make a footnote which able to direct you to the end page. As how to do the modern footnote, place the footnote right beside the word/sentence you want, then write down the explanation between them. If you done it right...
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    "Oh I gotta avoid this character!"

    The fact that a character even exist in a story means they have a role. So even if there's no "Oh I gotta avoid this character!" moment, they still need to have a closure, no matter how small that is. If A wanted to avoid B, then our guy Chekov's gun is already aimed. It's either A eventually...
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    Writing On writing intelligent characters.

    This thread is a fine consequence of what happen when you start something with "real x is like this" and also you don't add "but of course it's not always like this irl" disclaimer. I must say this is a "I know that I know nothing" hell. A fickle situation when you believe a stupid person is...
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    Story Updates Not Appearing in Latest Update

    Indeed, my 500 words short story in other account appears without a problem.
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    I guess it's me being bad at analogy again

    I guess it's me being bad at analogy again
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    Like a certain book I dropped where its prologue+chapter 1 is 30k words, yet other chapters are...

    Like a certain book I dropped where its prologue+chapter 1 is 30k words, yet other chapters are just around 4k each. Considering its full book is only 100k words, how do you even justify that much first two chapters?
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    What I meant was not the 'amount' but the time it needs for everything to progress. I should've...

    What I meant was not the 'amount' but the time it needs for everything to progress. I should've make it clearer. Some wasted a big chunk of their book by obsessing on the introduction part, but everything flopped after that. The conflict is not developed enough to get that 'omph' in the climax...
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    Read some stories with prologue/chapter 1 reaching 30k words

    Read some stories with prologue/chapter 1 reaching 30k words
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    Some people should know the differences between exponential graph and 3-act structure fr

    Some people should know the differences between exponential graph and 3-act structure fr
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    Writing Deciding the Names

    Min Shuiyin, if someone close, then just Shuiyin should be fine.
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    Writing an orthodox altruistic hero MC is not quite as flexible as writing anti-hero. It's not like they love the concept of 'anti-hero', in fact what they want is just a better basis which has more potential to expand. For altruistic hero MC, only people who like altuistic hero MC and who don't...
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    Why add unnecessary suffering, especially when it is not needed and over the top?

    If it's stories in general, I call it a convoluted story. It's no longer just fillers. Those authors have clear idea how to start and also how the story finish, yet they somehow couldn't find the right conflict to bridge them. So here the unnecessary dramas come in. It's similar like many...
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    Why add unnecessary suffering, especially when it is not needed and over the top?

    1.) The dramas are pretty much already developed by many writers. At the expense of being accused as uncreative, the dramas which you refer in 3rd paragraph are an easy way to continue their story. As much as people love unique and creative storylines, many people actually don't mind to consume...
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