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MC is able to bounce back pretty well. He gets pretty stressed at time what with the slavery and being forced to kill people to survive, but his primary coping mechanism is putting a positive spin on things. If you want trauma, that’s more the department of Filli the rat-girl supersoldier...

Nothing guarantees anything and I don’t get to decide what constitutes a good narrative. Neither does any expert, be they YouTuber, marketing executive, legacy media reviewer, or random person in a forum. Thats a choice made in aggregate by everyone who chooses to engage with the story, and even...

I write at least a little bit every day, but honestly, there’s no trick to it. I just kind of do. I’ve been maintaining a weekly schedule for more than two years and it’s kind of just habit now. I genuinely feel like I have failed a task that is of at least moderate importance when I miss my...

Is it possible to make good artwork without rigorous technical skills and a basic understanding of things like perspective? Yes. People were doing it for millennia before the renaissance masters started codifying things. However, technical skills help you with the process of taking the picture...

Username: my first D&D character and my main from back when I played world of Warcraft smooshed together. Picture: ai generated picture of a Retired pirate bartender catman from my story. I just really like Svartur and he’s a pretty minor character.

Crap, I’m gay? I guess I’ll need to tell my wife. Who recently started posting here. So she’s also gay. Ah well. Welcome to the forums.

The best advice I can give you, and it won’t be easy, is to write out four things. 1. Best case realistic scenario. If luck favors you and everything comes up aces, but no miracles happen like a random billionaire covering all your expenses, what does that look like? 2. Worst case realistic...

Don’t worry about it coming off as romantic. There is no level of platonic intimacy that you can possibly put on the page without it coming off as romantic to some people. The entire concept of shipping relies on this fact. My own lack of gaydar and sensitivity to some squicky relationship...

Google Docs on my phone exclusively. I’ve gotten so into the habit that I can’t write effectively on my actual computer

Big fan of FTL, at least according to my hours played on Steam. It’s a sci fi spaceship roguelike where you can target specific rooms and parts of the enemy ship and have the same done to you. If all members of your crew die you lose, of course, but you also need to manage fuel, make repairs...

How about wifi? Will I be attacked by Eldritch entities or accosted by Ugandan knuckles?

It’s still posted here. Waifu Catalog: Warcraft Beta Tester. I don’t know if I would recommend it to literally anyone ever but I know it’s very much to SOME people’s tastes because I had a surprisingly active comment section on another site by the time I hit chapter 100 and most of them stuck...

Zero shame. My first story I ever posted online was also my first longform story I ever wrote. 330 chapter long erotic Warcraft fanfic. Zero shame. I wrote a story to completion on my first try and I will always be proud of that.

I listen to more than I read these days, because any time I have enough quiet space to read I have enough quiet space to write. In contrast, I have a 45 minute commute and my job includes a lot of driving around so I can listen to a lot of audiobooks. With that said, I’m listening to Dungeon...

I keep an active exp bar, but it operates on milestones/quests as opposed to monster kills. Which occasionally creates story opportunities like the time that my MC needed to break into an artificer’s workshop and force him to make a piano at gunpoint. (MC was one exp away from leveling up and a...

Yes but the irrational fear predates that and it was not in the context that freaks me out. Wasn’t even all that bad, either, since they ended up biting my foot and I was wearing reasonably heavy work boots.

The barking of dogs in the distance. I actually love dogs and in close quarters I rarely ever get spooked by them while doing my delivery job. If I hear dogs and I can’t identify their location, however? Especially when I’m outside at night? Lizard brain insists that is a furry missile pointed...

You can do it. It could potentially be fun for you, and until you make enough money to meaningfully supplement your income that’s the only real reason to write. You won’t get better as a writer by doing this. Your quality probably won’t be as good as what you could write yourself. Context...

150ish chapters in everyone of this stripe who is still reading has officially transitioned from “just do a murder you nincompoop” to “you know I like that he doesn’t casually kill but hot damn could he just casually kill (whatever antagonistic character is on screen atm). Just this one time. As...

Write a story. Accept it will be shit. The purpose of this exercise is to master the skill of “finishing a story.” Any quality storytelling produced is a happy accident. Self improvement can be done with general practice, or by committing to a single focused task and discarding everything else...