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Do not seek to be the best. At all times, Remember these words "Merely seek to be better than you were yesterday." Also, Remember these words too "You will encounter no problems, if the author truly loves you."

It's funnier looking back at it now, but it still sticks with me. I've received a personalized hate email calling me every word 'Alpha males' have ever used to denigrate people because: (drumroll) My male protagonist liked to be on the bottom. Everyone knows writing your 'strong male...

One of my protagonists canonically can just know that he's a character in a story, provided he ever receives the motivation to check. I assume that would bias him towards viewing me as an equal, rather than as a god or something. Most of my other protagonists I've ever written are *not good...

They're the same thing. This may surprise the uninitiated, but real life Romance is very, very, very boring. Fictional Romance is a lot less sitting around talking about nothing, and a lot more romantic dates. Fictional romance is a lot less tedious adulting, and a lot more actually being life...

A character stops being a character when the audience becomes aware of their existence as a purely functional implement. I.E. John Warhammer (from Pick a Warhammer 40k book) stops being a character the exact second the audience realizes he only exists to sell you little plastic guys and does...

What is the most strangest fetish you have seen/read? Selfcest Non-Con. Just... strange... Which fetish makes you disgusted? The aforementioned What is the weirdest fetish? Probably one of the many filth and gore related ones What fetish do you have?(Optional) (insert the 'Cleric of Decay'...

Outlines are for cowards. Real warriors simply dump 20k words in three days, do a bunch of editing, then wait another 2 months until their muse decides to let them write another 20k words in three days.

On a different site, I was once the author that did this, and, I can confirm, the reason this author isn't coming back is essentially because of that backlog. There's an expectation of obligation at some point, and I can totally see how one really bad day of burnout can cause someone to log out...

My protagonist, with their powers, was totally capable of canonically learning that they were a character and I the author. I imagine I'm just dead at some point, unless I got his powers, but if he gets my life he's getting the better end of the deal from his perspective.

Functionally, unless you want to write your fantasy story in a canon language, using english swears is no different the rest of the watsonian logic of the story being written in english; How else would my readers understand it?

Other. I don't have colors or concrete images in my imaginations, period, just vague silhouettes and what are effectively instructions on what that thing would look and feel like if it were in front of me, even if I can't see it in my mind.

Chinese Tier is not good or bad necessarily, just annoys me on a personal level and so I refuse to read them.

Disclaimer: Studio Ghibli exists, and is being ignored because I believe the (two? three?) movies that resemble what I am talking about do not count because of the themes and allegory inherent in those films. They are not relevant here. You read the title so lets cut to the chase; ever played a...

Ok so this one is super niche but there's a spell in a d&d 3.5e book (either Libris Mortis or Ghostwalk, don't remember which) called Bloodstar The description implied a floating orb of blood in the air, and whenever someone gets injured near it in a way that draws blood, it sucks a little more...

I tend to take the more clinical approach, describing the morbid and unpleasant in cold, logical terms first, because to a certain extent the visceral morbidity, the knowledge that you and everyone else around you are fundamentally just meat animated by particularly complex slime, and you can be...

Spite for my mental health

The story opens in media res, the protagonist in the middle of a chaotic, messy, and horrific battle. Who is on what sides, what the stakes are, and who is currently winning are details that are not elaborated on. The only focus is on how much fun the protagonist is having, and the unhinged...

*squints suspiciously*

'Here's my isekai world! It totally isn't like the real world at all you guys, anyways here's a generic vaguely medieval society that also has magic! What do you mean 90% of the population having reliable, lethal offense on demand would change the way the fundamental way laws are written...