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There are MUCH worse things I could have lost than a piece of a foot :) I consider that lucky as hell, so do my kids.

This is absolutely true. Serious writers tend to cut down everything, including sleep. Me, I am lucky that I can devote as much time to it, all it took was getting a foot shot off in a war. I still get to bed late and get up early to write, And I am lucky I got married 30 years ago to give me...

Or just have no social life. That's how most writers do it.

Murderhobo's apprentice. My first book on Amazon.

No, it's not. English is spoken fluently by less than 18% of the world's population. Written Chinese has a pretty deep market, as do French, Russian, and Spanish, and they are much easier to write in. I considered translating my works into Russian. Fortunately, I am fluent in actually speaking...

why do you want to translate it to english?

Heh, thanks. While technically she is a modified AI character (Heavily modified) she took me almost 40 hours of work to get right. It kept trying to turn her into a goblin, give her fangs, or even show off too much skin. I had to completely redesign her eyes (still not that happy with them) and...

Can't blame the writer for catering to his audience. The vast majority of nerdy boys are excited by pretty girls. Most of the audience for adventure stories is male. Males have a built-in preference for excitement or pretty girls. An exciting cover is incredibly hard work, and visually, what...

Seriously, I prefer to have one or two entire books before I post a single chapter. Posting gives me a kick to edit the chapters, not write them.

Except you have to consider the premise of the story. If it is NOT a power fantasy, where the MC's struggles are education, social acceptance, romance, mystery, or even political, their 'power level' may be almost irrelevant. Does the power to wipe out an entire planet really matter when you are...

Not me. I aim to be squarely in the center of popular genres, and let my writing, storybuilding, and plotting carry the load. If someone thinks "Oh, I want a magitech romance" I want them to think about 'at any price' as the best example. If they think 'post-apocalypse superheroes.' I want 'the...

I used to be furry back in the eighties and 90's. Furrymuck, Tapestries, I even have some pretty good scenes stored with a certain surprisingly famous writer that played a tigress in furryspace named Kittiara... But the 'gay porn' and 'fetishist' crowd got more and more aggressive, to the point...

I speak English.

there are only a few genres I really despise, and wouldn't write in them for a million dollars. I already have enough shit to work off in Purgatory, I don't need to be hellbound.

My nightmare? getting ready to serve, only to find out that MY knife has been used by a stranger. You do NOT touch another chef's knife! even worse? It still has pieces of whatever they cut with it! even worse? The TIP has been broken off your four-hundred-dollar ceramic knife because they tried...

Using the tens of thousands of hours you spend creating stuff to pay for actual things like rent, or food, defines success. Encouragement is one thing, but hitting a target in the yellow with one arrow out of 50 doesn't make you a successful hunter. Encouragement is wonderful, if accompanied by...

seriously, if a book is less than 250 pages, it feels like it's finished before you start. If it's over 600, it feels interminable. At least when you are dealing with actual publishing. If you plan on doing a webnovel that may eventually get published, it can all be one book... but having the...

No worries, people did the same for me when I was new :) I like seeing new writers in English getting a good start, and I really hope you stick with it!

I had a stroke. I am still recovering. I am barely back to 2000 words a day, against my prior 10000-15000 words a day.

I am considering redoing my covers for my 'meat and potatoes' superhero story. Right now they are this: Book 1: Book 2: Book 3: And more along that vein. But my wife made me some new covers, and I am trying to figure out if they would work better. Book 1: Book 2: Book 3: or I am just...