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This is definitely a real, live humans person I can tell having also been a real humans person for many years. I bet they do all the things that humans do like breathe air and buy groceries like I, another humans person, does.

Never mind, I retract my response. Carry on.

A well-timed fart joke can let the wind (no pun intended) out of even the most pretentious, high-minded monologue. 💨 Now who let that low-flying duck in here?

My advice? Humor should be character-driven. That is, your characters should be funny in their own way without tipping your hand as "the funny author". Having a variety of humor helps. Each character should have their own register. The dry wit, the foul-mouth sarcastic one, the goofy...

I may have misspoke. While I can understand WHY these kinds of stories get written, I don't like them either. It feels forced and frustrating almost every time. I'm agreeing with you, just trying to dissect why they get written the way they are.

I guess I'll answer in two parts- 1: Maybe I misunderstood the point you were originally trying to make but when you mentioned threats against the community, I took that to mean literally. As in "stop fighting or I'll harm the people in your community". That's a very different scenario than...

It’s not something I’d noticed before but I don’t think you’re wrong. If I had to guess, my theory would be that POC superheroes are “saddled” with the additional responsibility of representing their own race/community in addition to whatever their actual story is. That implicit tie doesn’t...

Absolutely not. Unacceptable. I don’t want anybody here to read through my carefully written prose and offer free proofreading feedback that would be AWFUL. I world be compelled to answer each one with genuine gratitude. Gag me.

A variety works best, I think. You can foreshadow things in the same chapter for that quick payoff dopamine hit, you can have stuff in the beginning of a book that foreshadows the ending so your twist doesn't feel like it came out of nowhere, and you can have things you said in book 1 that...

I've often thought that having an in-character AMA would be a lot of fun, but that would mean having readers that have thought about and theorized about the characters so 🤷‍♂️

You can have my complex plot, subtextual slow-burn romance-adjacent arc when you foreshadow prying it from my cold, dead, layered-symbol hands 200 pages ago with a side of Deez ex machinas.

You guys are writing not-trash? Is everyone doing that too?

It’s worse than hearing nothing at all. Until you go a few weeks hearing nothing at all. EDIT: oh,I got a reader today! Hooray for dopamine!

My MC like a daughter I couldn’t protect but am indescribably proud of. The supporting cast is the friends I would have wanted her to have.

And here I was shocked that it hadn’t been posted yet, turns out I just needed to wait 4 minutes.

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

Dialogue, and specifically natural character voices. I’ve been told by multiple people that they can tell exactly who is talking even without dialogue tags. A lot of my “exposition” is disguised as casual conversation or fridge-logic one liners.

Between work and kids I don’t have a lot of free time at the moment but I do get to play D&D every few weeks and volunteer at the VFW regularly. Aside from that though, and this may sound a bit obsessive, I like to dream up AUs for my characters and run through what they’d be like. It can be...