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I was bored and googling random stuff today (don't pretend you don't do it) and I happened upon a definition for "pulp fiction." They're stories that were designed to be written quickly for a rapid release schedule, were usually formulaic and derivative, and focused on giving readers an...

EDIT: stingray, not manta ray. Imagine you're reading a book (stretching your suspension of disbelief to its limits, I know) about a guy who gets isekaid to a pirate/nautical-themed story, and in the process he gets turned into some kind of fish man. Which of these two fish would you prefer...

What book(s) do you think has the worst moral or message you've ever heard? For me, I'm gonna have to go with this one: It's a book about a kid who gets sent to a school that teaches monster children how to blend into human society. It sounds derivative but inoffensive on the surface, but then...

I got Roboquest on sale a couple days ago, and I've been playing it ever since. It's a FPS roguelike that feels like Doom 2016 with Borderlands graphics. I think it might be the best roguelike I've ever played. Some of my other favorites include... Slay the Spire Balatro Hades Enter the...

What games do you think have the best stories? Here's my top three... 3. Tales of Xillia. The story is so good that if it was (faithfully) made into an anime, it would be right up there with Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood for me. 2. Alan Wake. I'm replaying it right now. The only game I can...

Is there a reason why our profile statuses can't be more than 420 characters long? They don't appear on the front page except for the sidebar, which automatically hides them if they're bigger than a certain size anyway, so it's not like we'd be competing with them for space or anything. It just...

If you've been sharing stories on the internet for more than a day, you've definitely gotten at least one comment from a reader that makes you think "Who chews this guy's food for him?". Like this one I got on XNPC, where someone was so desperate for an excuse to glaze communism that they...

One of the stories I want to try writing sometime soon is an isekai. I'm hesitant to even try, though, because every time I ask how to write an isekai, people tell me they'll drop the book if the isekaization doesn't happen in the first chapter. Maybe the second if it's really well written. And...

One of the dungeons my characters go through in XNPC is going to have a puzzle room, and I'd like it to be the kind of puzzle that my readers can solve alongside them if they want to. This is what I've come up with. Would anyone mind trying to solve it? I want to make sure that my logic doesn't...

I've had this idea bouncing around in my head for a couple years now, and for some reason I haven't been able to get it to shut up for the past few weeks. I'm not going to do anything with it (yet) since I've got so much else going on, but I want to talk about it a little. Maybe that'll help me...

Imagine this: there's an Olympic-sized pool filled with water. A metal tower stands in the center of the pool, rising twenty or so feet high. At the top of the tower is a bunch of trampolines set up in a sort of bowl shape. The biggest trampoline acting as the floor is an octagon, and eight...

I started uploading XNPC less than two months ago, and it just hit the 100 follower mark on Royal Road. Meanwhile, I only have 16 followers here on ScribbleHub. You're not going to let those Royal Road losers embarrass you all like that, are you? Show them who's boss by clicking that link and...

I just got the second draft of the cover for XNPC: Gehenna's Rest. I'm mostly fine with it, but I asked for a few changes. What do you all think? My changes: 1. Can she make the girl in the middle's lips a little smaller? 2. Can she make Jeremy's (the one on the left) expression a little...

I'm listening to The Mark of the Fool by JM Clarke right now. It's a pretty good book so far, but something about it is bugging me, and it's something that's bugged for a while. Do authors think ten year olds are toddlers? I can't tell you how many books I've read, shows I've watched, games...

I found this show by accident while browsing HBO Max and decided to give it a watch. It's okay. Only six episodes long and no second season. I give it a 7/10. More importantly, now I really want to write a story about a small time supervillain team trying to make ends meet even though they're...

What's your favorite scary movie? Followup question: is your favorite scary movie also the scariest movie you've ever seen? My favorite scary movie is either Dead Silence or In the Mouth of Madness, depending on if I'm in the mood for a ghost story or something lovecraftian. Neither of those...

I just wrote some spicy chapters for XNPC. This my first time ever writing anything like that. I want them to be, you know, exciting without being outright smutty. Would anyone be interested in beta reading them to tell me if I did all right? It's three chapters, equaling a little less than 9000...

When you're writing a story that takes place over an extended length of time, how long does it take you to completely lose track of how much time has gone by? For me, I can only keep things straight for two or three days unless I'm deliberately trying to work within a specific timeframe. The...

This has been my most anticipated game for the past couple years, and it's finally coming out next Thursday! Somebody pinch me to make sure I'm not dreaming, and bring a mallet just in case I am.

This is for a book I haven't started working on yet besides making notes for future use, and if I'm smart it'll stay that way for a long time. But I've developed a magic system for my potential-future-WIP pirate isekai story. More importantly for this thread, I've developed a counter for that...