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I did that in 'Exiles: Pilgrimage.' One of the characters settled down with her toddler in a human village (the only one for thousands of miles), and spent years there living the quiet life as the toddler turned into a preteen. I covered most of that span in a few hundred words.

The pulp novels date to an era when the first draft was written by hand, and subsequent ones were laboriously typed out. No spell check. No grammar check. One typo, one minor change meant redoing an entire page. Hence, the better authors put a lot of thought into each sentence before writing...

I created the goblins and especially the hobgoblins in my worlds to be 'justifiably evil.' It came down to biology and the desire to reproduce. Male goblins and hobgoblins outnumber the females by 100 to 1. To get their shot at a lady, the males have to either impress them: raiding the...

I have characters with names like 'Chimp' and 'Sticks.' Grammarly insists on 'the chimp' or 'the sticks.' Also, to Grammarly, 'Carter' is a proper name, not a profession.

There are many fantasy stories with main characters who could be considered 'evil.' The 'Malazan' series by Erikson features a brutal empire ruled by assassins and evil magicians. Dark, murderous characters abound in Abercrombie's books.

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Aging eyes and stiff fingers contribute to many grammar bugs on my part. With the first books, I foolishly thought that MS Word would catch most of the bugs. It flopped miserably. I pulled those books and redid them with the free version of Grammarly. It did way better, but still missed a...

'Elves' = 'Gandhrvas/Aparusu' in South Asia, or close enough to make no difference. Gandharvas are male musicians/bards, while Aparasu are dancers. 'Kumbandas' = 'Dwarf' in South Asia, apart from the blue skin and horsemanship.

The calendar is pretty much planet-wide. The secondary world has a 360-day orbit with two smallish moons, one on a 15-day cycle, the other taking 30 days. The second moon is used to determine the length of the months. Navigators, mariners, and skywatchers pay close attention to lunar...

I decided to keep mine simple, so as not to distract from the story. The main world has 12 months of 28 days each, plus a day for each Equinox and Solstice, which are major holidays. The lunar year aligns with the solar year.

'The Wandering Inn' is a serial webnovel with a substantial following. It seems somewhat like what you intend. https://wanderinginn.com/

The first time around, the edits were so severe - several per page, plus plot fixes - that I deleted the old books and released new ones. (Twice.) This last time around, as it was mostly trivial grammar bugs (1-2 per 8-10 pages), I just updated the interior. (No new edition.)

I have not read 'Reverend Insanity,' but the concept reminds me of the webnovel 'The Wandering Inn,' a sort of RPG fantasy featuring classes and levels. 'The Wandering Inn' topped several million words, with weekly additions.

My relatives want signed author copies on the off chance that I will be a best-selling author someday. My amaged hand makes my signature more of a scrawl, but whatever...

Welcome! I am staring straight at 63 myself in a couple of months. And yes, I'm retired. Facebook is about it for social media. It has become infuriating these last few years. I mostly write dark fantasy, though Amazon classed my last book as 'friendship fiction' and most of the others as...