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    Reader Preferences About Villains

    1. I like villains that are cool, and respect villains that are cool.(I don't always agree, but if they're really cool I might.) 2. I hate villains that aren't cool.
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    Can another author explain to me why so many stories don't use paragraphs?

    Considering some advice given on the site it's not that surprising it's become overly common. - Write short chapters (1k-2.5k words) - Simple paragraphs (five sentences in one is rare.) - "Said" is invisible so removing it can save words, some people use a hybrid of skipping it when they think...
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    Whats the scariest horror game you have played?

    Scariest: Dead Space - The fact that the audio literally gets more intense if you're running around everywhere makes the sudden bursting of enemies through vents feel like expected jumpscares even if it's been twenty minutes since it's happened. Disturbing: Clive Barker's Jericho - Playing as...
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    Litrpg without accomplishments?

    Rule of cool, if it sounds cool to someone then they do it. The problem here is asking about if it is necessary immediately breaks the rule because the person asking didn't care enough to add it in from the start. But then it sounds too critical to say that to someone wanting to write into a...
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    Based on age and mental development, what kind of female protagonist do you prefer?

    That makes sense but it's kind of backtracking. You used words/phrases like "The world of fiction," meaning all fiction regardless of medium, and "Females in fiction in general". Those two statements means anyone reading it would assume it's encompassing all literature and beyond and...
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    Juxtaposition of music and scene\character.

    Yeah there's a bunch of scenes like this. The most significant from anime recently that I recalled was There's probably more examples and some of them by nature are kind of tied to the fact the series is a dark comedy. Things I can think of in that category are the Amazing Digital Circus'...
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    Based on age and mental development, what kind of female protagonist do you prefer?

    I think this might be a west and east difference, in my experience in the west we don't really make a distinction of gender in protagonists until they are slightly older for those dynamics. In fact most children's literature is dominated by male protagonists making most of culture place women...
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    Based on age and mental development, what kind of female protagonist do you prefer?

    I find this whole thread kind of weird. To answer the question, I think I don't like any female protagonists enough to have a preference of age other than beyond teens, since those are the only ones with relatable enough or interesting enough personalities to follow a story about. Anything...
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    Writing Worldbuilding Tip – The “Two-Layer Rule” for Realistic Writing Without Exhaustive Research by Supperset

    I mean it's a tumblr post from 2022. I was reading your post and it almost word for word sounded like this one.
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    Polls! Vote for the new series name ( Mana Mobster or Arcane Syndicate or...)

    With titles as generic as those, you should probably spend more time on the cover and chapters for a consistent schedule than asking us what we think. Regardless I picked mob mage because it's the catchiest. The only thing I found online with a similar title refers to a minecraft skin pack.
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    Seven Levels of Fantasy

    He has at times past been invited to cover a red carpet premiere of WoT itself. Other times he's had exclusive interviews with up and coming or well known authors ranging from First Law author Joe Abercrombie to Malazan author Steven Erikson. I will say that all of that was before his sexual...
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    Seven Levels of Fantasy

    You shouldn't take his opinion as fact or unbiased, he's insider media, literally defended WoT adaptation till it was canceled, and even then resorted to "You can't even tell me what 'really' went wrong with the production." when everyone and their mother told him it wasn't good because it...
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    immersion breaks

    Even when it's first person?
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    Stop making boring magic cultures

    Bro will say this and then his kin will say some shit like: "Why would you make it unintuitive and why do you use made up terms, it doesn't make it unique." My point being I don't feel like you understand how much authors risk being rejected for not doing what everyone else does. Someone may...
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    Would Historical Fiction be considered Historical Fanfic?

    I'm tweaking out. I don't care for the semantics of it. I'm just saying it's not fanfiction because it's not fanfiction, as the rules for all language and communication are inevitably revealed arbitrary you can do whatever the fuck you want. But me personally? I'm going to go by the way it's...
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    Would Historical Fiction be considered Historical Fanfic?

    No it isn't, because a point of why fanfiction is fanfiction is in the amateurish nature of the body of work. Bernard Cornwell isn't just a fan of it he's a writer and studier of legends and writing itself, not to mention Arthurian legends are from before copyright was established. The necessity...
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    Would Historical Fiction be considered Historical Fanfic?

    That stuff just falls under fan labor, fan works, or user generated content. Fanfiction is like writing a whole novel based on the adventure.
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    Would Historical Fiction be considered Historical Fanfic?

    I don't even get this question are you writing, recording, or producing something to distribute everything that happens in that rpg session for the sake of acting as a derivative to that piece of media? If you're just playing that game then no that's what it's for, for you to interact and engage...
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    Would Historical Fiction be considered Historical Fanfic?

    Honestly I don't know why someone would want the slur label of fanfic for their work.
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