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Try not to judge me for quoting “Friends” but I see it like this: Dr. Franzblau: I try not to let my work affect my personal life, but it's hard, when you do... what I do [gynecologist]. It's like uh... Well, for instance, what do you do? Rachel: I'm a waitress. Dr. Franzblau: Okay, all right...

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Long form it could get very difficult to keep that interesting unless you’ve got some interesting twists already up your sleeve. If you do, I can see how it could be interesting. Just be wary that you’re also using a real world medical condition as story fodder. Not saying don’t do it, but...

I avoid any trope that takes itself too seriously or is used as short hand for character backstory/trauma. But I handle them in different ways. Too self-serious: brooding grimdork anti heroes with secret royal bloodlines and cursed weapons carrying the soul of an ancient dragon etc etc etc… I...

I use random name generators. Unless there’s a specific reason for a person to have a certain name I don’t put much thought into it. Sometimes I retcon a meaning if it fits their character but mostly I just assume their parents thought “yeah that’s a nice enough name”.

My MC is an orphan and her biological parents literally never come up because they're not relevant to the story, except for one brief vision in book 4 that will explain some of her traits to the reader (in an "oh that's why she's Like That" way). Then the caster who sees it promptly wipes his...

Getting to realize a protagonist who's been taking shape in my mind for decades and watching her grow and overcome. Also, her supporting cast is basically my psyche shot through a prism, so getting to write their arguments and bickering is fun.

"Oh, [goats] are staples for a reason. Livelier than a pig, less unwieldy than a cow, lots of personality...isn't that right Frederick? See? Frederick agrees." "Do you know this goat?" "No. He just looks like a Frederick." "Hate to be the one to tell you this, Sundown...but that's a nanny...

I mean...this is it right here, really. If the story can't be about them advancing in "power" then make it about areas in which they need to grow. My MC is incredibly deadly, but the story revolves around how she keeps people from seeing her that way and how she reconciles her natural talents...

I completely rewrote my introduction chapter because it was dry. Rewrites happen.? I also don't have many readers or followers though, so if you've got people invested you might want to drop a note about it once you do what you need to do to fix it.

I hate to pile on to what seems to be consensus, but yeah I agree. If I went searching for "Romance" stories and came across a promising series where romance is technically a subplot but not really the plot driver? I'd be mildly annoyed at best. It would be like classifying Star Wars as High...

It's presented as magic in a fantasy setting, but I try to keep the results grounded in reality, if that makes sense. Basically saying, if someone could instinctively control or throttle entropic decay, what real effects and limitations might that present? Even in a world with magic and healing...

I feel like that would make a great anticlimax after an extended setup. Like the MC talks to their unknowing friends about their memories of this great holiday and they all visit one yer and get handed...brooms.

Magic users known as Shadow Singers, or Duvcanái, are the central focus of my series. They have an intrinsic connection to primordial entropic forces and experience them as constant, low-level background “screaming”. Sensory deprivation is torture to them. Without normal sensory input, the...

"I don't know why the ducks are being so judgy." I think it was meant to be like a snorted-awake fragment of a dream but who knows?

My protag is able to manipulate entropy and was raised as a weapon. She's been taught to see her abilities as inherently destructive and herself as tainted for having them. As part of her healing arc, she realizes she can use that same power in a more controlled fashion to

A lot of the themes in my series center around entropy and how it can serve growth when directed and controlled. Divinity, in this case, is the only force capable of reversing entropy. Wounds healed with herbal or natural magic still scar because in their cases you’re just accelerating natural...

I've got an innocent table that keeps, through no fault of its own, acting as a teleportation anchor for the MCs. Whether people are eating on it at the time or not. The tavern owner's mother is not amused by this. The wizard is about to stroke out trying to figure out why.