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Huh. I once submitted a short story to Amazing Stories (the 80s revival not the original; I learned to read about a year after that one folded IIRC!) and the editor who rejected it asked: "But what happens next? Does the narrator survive?" Uhm... it was a horror story, the ending was left...

I've never heard anything good about college level creative writing classes - community learning center ones? Yep. High School and Middle School ones? Absolutely - one of my better experiences in ... either seventh or eighth grade, don't remember which now. But college? No, those are...

From what I gather, it won't work - it will ignore the new post in calculating new releases - just make the next one on schedule and you'll be fine though.

If you wish to be an artist of any stripe, you should study that artform any way you can, to learn what has been done before, what hasn't, and to figure out if you wish to emulate one or more of the Masters or find your own path.

Trigger Warnings trigger me so never see use. The rest I use when I feel it is appropriate.

You could always take the extreme route used in The Sandman - each of the Endless has their own font that only they speak in...

Firefly had at least one scene like this. I'm drawing a blank beyond that, but I know I've seen a scene like this played out dozens of times, usually for comedy. The Princess Bride may have some good moments to draw from. As can some old Laurel and Hardy movies (Another fine mess you've...

Views = someone opening one chapter but not keeping it open and just moving on; perhaps they read very fast, or just read a sentence and thought "Maybe later" or "this isn't for me" or "why did I click that? I was looking for a different story" Read = Kept the page open on an active browser tab...

Being unemployed helped. Became darned near impossible once I picked up a second job.

This is the place to post for GENERAL advice on action scenes, or to solve specific problems you are having with a scene. No need to move it IMO, unless you were ONLY looking for feedback, not to get (and possibly even share) advice.

That is (exactly) like going to a "cold reader" to tell your future. AI will ALWAYS put a positive spin on its critiques unless you force it not to. And yes, FORCE it. A former movie critic turned writing teacher had AI do movie reviews in his style - except they were always positive and...

With a high probability, it is easy to tell when a story was heavily influenced by AI - but it may be a translation, someone padding word count, or just someone being lazy and letting the machine do most of the work. It is very difficult to tell which is the case, if the prompts were done well...

If it catches my eye, I look for something I might be able to keep up with the writer on - if it's got more than 30 chapters, I'll usually pass on it.

I remember the process at Royal Road better than here, but it was similar (just had to send the same request a second time there to get a story approved). I think a screen shot of the site you posted it to first, showing the story there and your name, with a note that you were the creator and...

40 years of role-playing games, fifty years of reading comic books, and a lifetime exposed to fantasy (with dad having read Lord of the Rings to my mother, about a chapter or two a week, during her pregnancy with me, finishing Return a little before my second birthday) and "light horror" (dad...

I would probably reply: "Grammar much?" and leave it at that...

Ah. Sounds interesting, really... though maybe hard to get into. But if you've posted this on multiple sites, you have a few more hurdles to jump through than people posting here first will (you need to provide proof that it is your work - took me two tries and a reminder email to Tony after...

Is your main guy literally an aswang (I know the series Grim played fast and loose with mythology, unlike the first five seasons of Supernatural and like 90% of the run of Charmed (the 90s series), so my impression of the monster may be a bit skewed, as that's the only place I've seen it used)...

To read about? Whichever one has a better sense of humor (so probably the witch). To hang out with? The knightess - just more interesting and, unless we have wildly different politics, least likely to outright murder me (or worse) for saying the wrong thing (and if she does murder me, will...

I suppose the worst message seemed to be the one in Henry James "Portrait of the Lady" - as a template for soap operas, it was perfect. As anything else, it is a tedious, dreadful slog - a woman has two men approach her, one she cares for but thinks is poor, one she does not really like but...