Recent content by CypherTails

This is probably the best advice honestly. From my personal experience everyone starts writing at a certain level say levels 1-10. Some start at 1 others at 3. At the start you will be trapped at a level and you won't be able to go up. I feel that is because you haven't mastered that level yet...

I think the reason is that Isekai is easy to get into as a writer and most anime now is Isekai drivel (not shitting on isekai as genre it's just the genre has alot of drivel). The genre has great potential but like all stories, it is difficult to execute well. Plus the current anime adaptations...

Honestly we still just do movies and dinner mostly. In Asia karaoke is also popular basically the two of you go in and sing couple songs. The room is private so you can get your smooch on, or you can do a double date so someone is always singing when you two do your thing. If you are wild you...

General idea is to be authentic, write about what you are passionate about. If you like the stuff you are writing about the quality goes up. That means don't put tags to serve the algorithm if you have no idea about it. So Yuri/Boys love and gender bender are popular but only touch those if you...

OK some of that is some serious nightmare fuel. Also love how the first seto kaiba looks completely unrelated other than the teeth part.

As some of the replies mentioned earlier these things happen and this is just part of life experience. If you think about it positively at least you learned this lesson in a rather harmless way. Some people learn this by being screwed out of jobs, promotions, and even scammed or framed. Some...

Part of being a writer is flying blind to an extent. Your best source of criticism unfortunately comes from reviews or comments. You get the most of those when your story kind of becomes reasonably large. So it's kind of the need experience to get a job but can't get a job because of lack of...

Not sure how you would go about doing that but generally I feel you can't please everyone. I have a feeling my story's 1 star reviews revolve around a single plot decision I made. I stand by the decision and from what I can tell a lot of my readers do like it, but some don't and that's...

Personally I would say avoid clipping the text into facial features. So for that you would probably need to zoom out a little more. Also I wouldn't recommend scattering the text out like that it would be better to make some space and just put them together. I also have a random idea just gonna...

Generally this problem is something you are stuck with unfortunately, I don't think the reader confusion is worth it. Name styles are most relevant as a first impression. That part usually goes into how it sounds, names with harsh sounds that are usually the "k" sound. But since you are...

Generally a good practice in most fields I would say. Most academic literature do note the limitations of the study.

I'm a hybrid actually but more leaning towards planning, most of it is planned but I leave some room for free form and if the free form changes the crucial elements I adjust the plan. As to why some planners don't write a full novel I would suspect they don't take writing that seriously as a...

I like this actually because he looks detached and wistful. So if you frame that with pretty and bright colors it would create this sense of unease that matches the duality of your story. EDIT: Ideally we should see more of him, you won't have room much for words with such a close-up shot...

But you do need to get the aspect ratio kind of right, because its going get cropped if it's too wide or tall. (If I'm not wrong)

Perhaps in that case you could reflect the light heartedness and the darker undertones in the cover. Because right now the cover just looks bleak so when you read the light heartedness right at the start there might be some dissonance. The initial impact of the story matters too so by making the...