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I came home from work today and found out I've got some new neighbors. LOTS of new neighbors. I'm so happy... Have I ever told you guys that I have a legit phobia of anything with a stinger?

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You know that thing they do in animes, where they'll yell the name of their attacks? How do you feel about that in books? For example, if a character had a special move called Binding Blade that immobilizes their opponent for a few seconds, would it annoy you if they yelled "Binding Blade!"...

I just spent an hour writing and rewriting this, and I'm still not convinced it works. It's for a new class I came up with for one of my characters called a Sniper Cleric. Basically, he crafts special arrows that don't deal damage, but instead explode into clouds of healing powder. What do you...

Simple question. What's the scariest book you've ever read? For me, it's probably Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer. I've always loved Lovecraftian horror, and Annihilation was like if The Color Out of Space was extended into a full novel, and the color's influence had spread to cover an entire...

Without going too deep into it, the litrpg I'm writing is about the world being remade into an RPG system. 99% of the population is turned into NPCs who can only act and speak according to the "script" that's programmed into their brains. The last 1% are "Heroes" and they have to continuously do...

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I have two and a half questions: 1. Has there ever been, like, a survey to determine what the average age of litrpg readers is? 1 1/2. If not, do we at least know if it skews more toward older or younger readers? 2. If the majority of readers are younger, will they be open to reading about an...

Me: "I want a new profile pic. Hey chatgpt, generate a cartoon image of an angry badger wearing army camo eating a grenade sandwich ." Chatgpt: Me: "That's pretty good, but redraw it so that his hands aren't inside the sandwich." Chatgpt: Me:

Stephen King was once quoted saying "Nightmares exist outside of logic, and there’s little fun to be had in explanations. They’re antithetical to the poetry of fear." Do you agree? The most famous thing HP Lovecraft probably ever said was that fear is the strongest emotion, and the strongest...

In case anyone hasn't heard, a remake of The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion is (probably) coming out tomorrow. For some reason, Bethesda decided to shadow drop it, and the only information we've had until today is from unofficial leaks. They finally came out and said there's going to be an...

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This is a piece of advice I've wanted to give to more than a few people over the past couple weeks. I won't name names. If I'm talking to you, hopefully you'll know it. We're all supposed to be writers here. That means we think that we're skilled enough at writing that other people will want to...

One of my favorite things to do is make up TV shows for my characters to watch. It lets me throw some of my weirdest, most random ideas onto the page without having to justify them. On a whim, I had chatgpt throw together some pictures for a couple of shows from the Henry Rider books. What about...

Since I'm hoping to release Henry Rider and the First Hunter's Hammer in the next month or so, now's as good a time as any to start working on the blurb. So, what do you all think of this? (Minor spoiler warning for the first and second books)

So I was just doing a little work on smurbledurb during my break at work, and I'm pretty sure Autocorrect thinks we're working on a very different kind of book...

Is anyone here a copyright expert? One of the characters in the story in working on is a magic using assassin. She combines stealth, spell usage, and knife fighting. I was going to call her class a "witchblade" but there's already a comic series and TV show with that name. So obviously there are...

Today I decided to give a game called Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments a try. I really like detective games, but the only ones I've found in recent memory that do it well are the Ace Attorney games. What surprised me here was when I made it to the end of the first case, and the game gave...

I just started working in earnest on my litrpg project today, and I want to make sure my character building makes sense before I get too deep into it. This is the first character who's going to be introduced: Class: Cat Burglar Race: Faun LVL: 14 Str: 49 (+4 per level) Dexterity: 112 (+7 per...