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Gaming. I love video games, but I cringe every time a story tries to make it "cool." "Wow, you took command of that army and used it to defeat an army more than three times it's size! Where did you learn to do that?" *smugly adjusts glasses* "I play StarCraft for over forty eight hours a week!"

Here's the updated sketch. I told my artist the colors need to be a little brighter, but other than that it looks perfect!

I learned that people who take up two parking spots bother me to an unreasonable degree, even if there's still an empty space for me to park in. It's just like...who the @#$& do these &$#@ think they are?

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...

Never said he was an evil living puppet...

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)

Exposition. It's easy to say "just weave the worldbuilding into the story!", but unless the MC gets put on a game show where he's quizzed about his world's history, there are some things that just can't be slipped into a conversation without sounding wildly unnatural.

Check! Check! Check! As in, it doesn't do that. Check! I don't know if it's quite up to kung fu movie levels, but my fights are highly mobile, so check! Big fat check with fries on the side! You should check out my story Henry Rider: Clown Hunter. The link is in my sig below.

Apparently I've been extremely confused this whole time. I thought "NPC" stood for "Non Pooping Character."

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...

Depends on the review. I remember a couple reviews that I got for my very first self-published book that absolutely burned it to the ground. I didn't see it back then (and hoo boy did I let them know it) but they were absolutely right. That book was terrible and should never have been made...

For me, the magic systems I've enjoyed reading and writing most always have one thing in common: movement. The more inherent mobility a powerset gives its user, the more interesting they become. A fight between magic users where both are just standing in one place throwing fireballs at each...

Okay, I think I've figured this out. Also, I learned out how to use boxes. Also also, I changed the base level 3 stats to 2 instead of 5. LVL 3, BASE STATS AND CHOOSING CLASS CLASS THIEF RACE HUMAN Strength 2 (+1 per level) Dexterity 2 (+3 per level) Constitution 2 (+1 per level)...

Have you heard the one about orange man bad? It goes like this: orange man bad.

Of course I care about the rest of the story. But I've written over a dozen books, so I already know I can handle the plot, the characters, the worldbuilding, etc. This is my first litrpg, though, and I want to make sure the system I end up using makes sense and isn't going to drag the rest of...

I'm...not going to answer a question like that unless you have a really good reason for asking.

Ok, I've made some changes. The character (who is now level 18) starts off as a thief at level 3. The total sum of their stat increases comes out to 10 per level. They get to choose their race and start getting race bonuses at level 15. At level 25 they're allowed to choose as advanced class...