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Pro Tip on Outlines Step 1. Make an outline. Step 2. Proceed to write your chapter without looking at it. Step 3. Look back at outline and compare. Step 4. Realize how useless this outline was. Step 5. Suffer. Step 6. Go back to step 1. :blob_sir:

I do this weird thing where I try to imagine what someone else would say. If that doesn't work, I try to imagine what a character might say. Heck, could be a character in my own writing. And if what they would say seems decent enough, I roll with it. :blob_evil:

"Wow! You look nothing like your parents!" It certainly wasn't the nicest compliment, but it was certainly the most memorable.

Hot take: the Bible.

Cmon. We all know it's just a myth.

These are truly dark times.

Bruh.

This is just a funny confession I thought I'd make. I have this weird tendency where I'll brood over something I wrote that's in the backlog...and on rare occasions, a braincell will go "Ok you know what, the story here is horrible, we should change it." So, I change it! One of the early...

The quote's error is quite plain if you think on it a bit. The speaker may be a writer, but not all writers are them!

...I'm just gonna let my profile picture do the talking.

After you've forgotten them, there's no reliable method to getting memories of your dreams back. In fact, it's quite likely that they're gone forever; this is (theoretically) because your dream isn't encoded in your brain like a typical memory. That being said, the easiest way to make a...

That one time when I died. :blob_ghost:

English, as a language, sucks (I say, as I write another chapter in English)

Bouncing off a random thought...we all know (or, well, should hopefully know?) that character names actually carry a ton of context. Hopefully you haven't named your urban fantasy's British character "Guan Yu," or your high fantasy goblin warlord "Mahatma Gandhi." If you did, well...shame on...

And that, children, is why dinosaurs became chicken. They were too exciting, so god nerfed them to KFC.

I think you pretty much answered your own thread! This, I think, would be the #1 problem regarding timeskips. If the timeskip is unclear, or the reader thinks the timeskip wasn't warranted, that's probably where most problems would occur. Basically, make them blatant, and use them when appropriate!

Wait, then couldn't we just bribe the Tibetan shaman?

Good discovery: I can come up with tons of names! Bad discovery: Coming up with names takes so goddamn long!