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    Writing One Stars: A Lesson

    Personally, I think reviews (all of them, from 5 star to 1 star) are categorically tiring and unhelpful. Something I've realized is that readers *assume* every author is writing because they want to get paid for what they've written at some point, and have completely discounted all possibility...
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    Writing Prompt Faster than Light Racing

    We originally envisioned combining multiple different themes and such, for example having black holes as obstacles and other such shenanigans like wormholes as lap markers. Perhaps graveyards of dead eldritch gods as setpieces and other nonsense. We also had the concept of it being 'a race that...
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    What series you didn't like, but want too like

    MCU I adore Iron Man 1 and 2, and OG Captain America is a great movie despite its flaws. Everything else I have to force myself to suffer through rather than enjoy
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    A Thought Experiment I Thought I'd Share

    I'm doing some creative exercises disguised as a longform novel. I'm not advertising that, it's just necessary context for people that will inevitably ask me 'why' when I follow up with the actual point of the post. I've been doing some magic system tinkering for a thing I'm making. In this...
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    Unpopular Genres

    Dude the day I read someone's day to day diary as a nonfiction novel claiming to be a fictional slice of life novel is the day you can put me in the ground. The shitty fake A.I. we have now is smarter than me at that point.
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    Writing American High Schools

    1. In public school, it's mostly being bused around by school buses or parents. In cities or towns with schools close to residential areas there's a fair amount of walking to and from school, but almost no such thing as dorm or campus life or anything of the sort. 2. School starts at 7, 8, or...
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    Question, how high is the yield on the thermonuclear bomb in that suitcase?

    Question, how high is the yield on the thermonuclear bomb in that suitcase?
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    Force authors to use proper aspect ratio on their covers

    Counterpoint: Badly cropped = funni
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    I need help clarifying one of the rules on this site. [NSFW]

    This is a weird thing to say that I think a lot of people might disagree with. The consent part, not the intelligence part. Consent is a very weird thing, because it only really requires 3 things: Knowledge of what you are consenting to, the ability to say no, and the correct circumstance for...
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    Sauce Carrier

    Sauce Carrier
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    There are two types of food: Sauce and Sauce carriers.

    There are two types of food: Sauce and Sauce carriers.
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    Unpopular Genres

    'Silent Tragedy' I rarely see people write this way anymore; stories that are deeply tragic in ways that don't need narrative emphasis, and so the emphasis can go to something else. Like Overlord
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    Rom Com Scenes & Cliches That You Actually Like

    The 'You've let me stare at your naked body before but I still don't know if it's ok to kiss you' trope. Because yeah, it be like that irl sometimes.
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    Build your perfect crew

    Op listed 5 roles You list 4 more distinct roles that's 9 All I'm saying is that the TFTeam in its entirety is a valid crew in this instance Someone needs to write that
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    Cold Takes Thread

    People need to be taught debate etiquette and rhetoric continuously until the age of twenty-five, or else not allowed to participate in such activities.
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    Worst Writing Trope

    Counter-counter point: I'm now obligated to call you an idiot (I don't mean it, you actually do have a valid point, which I'm going to dismantle now) Beyond that I'd need you to evidence "Most of the time that's worse than just not having the problem exist at all", the concept you're putting...
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    Most tragic backstory/fate for a character in a novel you've read

    Suffering from Alzheimer's while an alien parasite tries to control his mind, triggering the instinctual response of using his powers to 'burn out' the foreign influence, causing this whole process to restart from zero every few seconds or so. That's pretty bad, I would say, but I have seen...
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    Deciding Future Video Topics

    This but specifically focus on why they're effective as narrative tools and explore the difference between meaningful and gratuitous sex scenes. I would genuinely like to see you do a video on this, mostly because I want to see what approach you take when dealing with a topic that has only...
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