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Another well-used method is to name the collection after the central story that's featured in it. The one that provides the thematic pivot around which all others revolve. For example, "The Jam Spread", for a collection in which the central story is called "The Jam Spread". There's also a...

If you like the concept of the unlimited potential of the human body/spirit/soul, then A Requiem for Homo Sapiens by David Zindell might be right up your alley. It's a sci-fi trilogy from the 90s that still holds up extremely well and has practically zero zeerust. It's also one of the most...

I'm always down for some classic UT2004. It's an evergreen title. I remember the game running on max settings on 1GB RAM and a mid-range GPU from '03. Don't make them as they used to. Don't make them at all, what with the dumb hero shooters dominating the market today. I'll concede to playing...

The Wings of War series by Bryce O'Connor. He's a selfpub who got kinda popular (in the indie writing scene) a few years back, and the recognition went to his head. Books 1-3 were fantastic. Book 4 was weak. Book 5 was an unmitigated disaster, and I dropped the series. (There should be a final...

Also, OG Battlefield 1942 or Battlefield 2 are quite good to this day, and they're basically dead. (2 still clings to life through the remnants of the ReLive community, but since the DMCA strike on its servers, it's a wasteland of fractured micro-communities.)

Dark Messiah of Might and Magic. Its multiplayer is the GOAT in terms of fantasy combat. Also, it's very, very dead for more than a decade. Last when I checked back in the mid 2010s, only a handful of Russian servers existed. Can be bought cheap on Steam for something like 5-10 euros.

I had next to zero experience in online dealings, and I got burned badly. I walked away with at least five lessons learned. But yeah, those were my entire savings from a few years back. It definitely put me in a bad spot. But I got better. Still traumatized, though. And, 1k$ might seem a lot...

Thanks for the feedback, Trinary! My quest for finding a reader who catches the reference that is TCW's entire prologue continues. Maybe I've made it too oblique - when I was worried during writing that it was too obvious. You're right, the choice for making this prologue was a non-standard...

It's something worth experimenting. I'm dabbling into using onomatopoeia myself, alongside literary descriptions. Mostly, it depends on your audience/"type" of story - in traditional, professional-level stories onomatopoeia is a no-no stuff, because it's seen as simplistic. In more lighthearted...

You got off relatively fine. I took a sunk cost of 1k USD for a "professional commission" for a cover for my first English book. It was ugly. I kept trying to explain to the artist what I wanted, kept sending him tons of reference materials. In the end he was like "dude, I spent 40 hours on this...

If we get deeper into the rabbit hole, the whole idiocy with IP copyright remaining property of the author until death and 70+ years afterwards and all that jazz, that was instigated in the first half of 20th century by the American corpocracy - Hollywood and Disney (yes, Walt-era's Disney) in...

Neat answer. Here's the real one: "Until what point does a wolf enter the woods?" "Until the middle. Then it starts to leave the woods."

Until what point does a wolf enter the woods?

What is your opinion on the Crusades?

Currently? Currently:

That's a rather well-written, epic vow. Kudos to the author.

Make it closer to 30 years. Lotta people "went West" after 1989. Birth rates also hit rock bottom during the 90s, which was why around mid- to late 00s a bunch of kindergartens and schools closed down from lack of students. And then several years later, when the gap closed, it triggered a...

I'll be the resident token character, the one that kinda exists in the background by way of sheer redundancy - the Nobby Nobbs of the setting. My gender will be irrelevant. I'll be so bland, so gray, so desiccatedly dry, that I'll be carrying papers to prove I exist at all in the narrative...

Isn't the idea being that you've made a commitment (to yourself, if no one else) before actually making the thread? Genuine question. As one poster has aptly meme-d above, shouting "frii riviws!" into today's contemporary datasphere is basically inviting disaster by way of digital deluge of...

Thanks for the feedback, Corty! Off I go to fix those capslocked "CHAPTER X" titles. As for tags... wanted to put more, but SH curated list of tags doesn't have the ones I need. On AO3, for example, I've put additional tags (solarpunk, hopepunk, noblebright, SFF fusion, spiritual).