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    Seeking some medical expertise!

    Yeah, I've been thinking about it some more while trying to work through the chapter, and I'm starting to feel like I should just go with something not necessarily magical but fictional. Really, the most important thing is just to have him suffer from something that can't be cured, only treated...
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    Seeking some medical expertise!

    Hum, I was almost sold on sticking to diabetes, but I don't imagine Tobias as the kind of person who would be prone to the behaviors that typically lead to diabetes, and if it was the genetic sort, I don't think it'd be something he would try to keep secret. I did look a little bit into MND and...
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    Seeking some medical expertise!

    In fact, I was specifically thinking about diabetes since it'd be pretty on the nose from a real-world commentary approach, that is, "something people are needlessly dying from because the medication to treat it is made prohibitively expensive for profit". But a little light Googling suggested...
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    Seeking some medical expertise!

    Context: The early portion of a story I'm working on centers on two characters, Robin (the protagonist) and Tobias (her elderly adoptive father). Tobias is taking medication for an as-yet unspecified condition that he's keeping a secret so as not to worry Robin. However, recently, the price of...
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    What Are You Playing Now?

    Wow, can't believe I haven't posted in this topic since I was playing Dragon Star Varnir! (Which I finished a long time ago and overall wouldn't recommend, if anyone was curious! The gameplay is pretty repetitive and trivial once you figure out that all non-bosses can be cheesed with devouring...
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    The ultimate villian:

    For me, the best villains are ones with strong conviction, genuinely good intentions, and personal ties to the protagonist(s). It adds so much emotional weight when the ultimate conflict comes down to the hero versus someone they never wanted to fight, who we as the audience never wanted them to...
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    What do you say?

    "I'll let my sales answer that question," said with a smile, followed by scurrying away before they can ask any questions about my sales~
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    How necessary is "colorful" language for lending a sense of maturity to a story?

    Mm, I guess what I'd say here is that it's less a question of, "How much swearing should I include?" and more, "Should I include swearing at all?" It's kind of my personal taste these days to keep it clean, but I worry readers would be pretty dismissive of it if the guy acting like a street thug...
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    How necessary is "colorful" language for lending a sense of maturity to a story?

    As I get older, I find myself feeling less inclined to have my characters swear. I generally avoided getting too vulgar to begin with, although I made pretty liberal use of "damn" and "hell" and the occasional "bastard". But even that much doesn't appeal to me these days. I just don't see it the...
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    Food porn in fantasy writing

    I'd say I probably hate it more than I love it. I'm an impatient kinda person, so when a writer spends a long time describing anything, including food, it gets me feeling like, "C'mon, get on with the story already". And it's also kinda frustrating when the writer does a really good job making...
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    How do people feel about reading/writing in different time tenses

    I'm playing with tenses a little in the story I'm working on right now. For context, the main character is an ordinary teen who spends her free time playing as basically a superhero in an online game. The real world segments are written in first person present tense, while the game segments are...
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    What Are You Playing Now?

    Hey, this is my kinda topic! At the moment, I'm actively playing four different games: -Genshin Impact, which I got into a couple months after it launched and have been hooked on since. Pretty much everything about it is right up my alley, from art style to story to core gameplay. I have a...
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    Dialogue as a Chat Log

    I went back and gave it a look a bit later, and honestly, I think the novelty of the idea has worn off. It just looks kind of, hm...I think "gimmicky" is the word I wanna use here. I think it might be a cute nod for readers who are really into online games, but for everyone else, it feels like...
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    Dialogue as a Chat Log

    I had an idea and wanted to get some input about it, and this seemed like the best place to post. Short version: The book I'm writing takes place primarily in an online VR game. Would it be viable to present the dialogue as though it's an ingame chat log? Long version, complete with backstory...
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    Hello, one and all! I'm Sydnie~

    I figure it's good etiquette to at least post an intro before I start posting elsewhere. I've never been very good at introductions, though. I can never figure out how much I should mention so I always end up saying what's probably way too much. But y'know what? I've come to terms with that! If...
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