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I think the main things to avoid are: 1. Letting an MC do what they want when what they want is not interesting to read about. 2. Letting the MC whine too much about doing stuff that is interesting to read about. 3. Having the MC thing MC doesn't want to do be something a lot of people wish...

Or at least not about power at all from the OP protagonists POV. You gotta either go cartoon or be sincere about it though. Not that thing a lot of wish fulfilment stories do where the OP protagonist has a superficial goal like having a "slow life" or something. Also play with the fact that...

Right but if you tag a story that is mostly not about sex as smut you're going to disgruntle readers who were expecting the story to be mainly about sex.

Kinda depends on where you are as a writer. For some people that's really good advice because they're not letting the readers do any thinking or giving the characters room to grow*. For other people that's terrible advice because they aren't giving readers enough information. Overall you gotta...

I think the point is less that you're supposed to decide what's inside and more that it's a joke about macguffins. Like there are a lot of stories where the macguffin is pretty generic, so just knowing that it's important and people want it is enough to understand what's going on. It's similar...