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  1. RootBeerBert

    Do you write genius characters?

    I specifically mean intelligent geniuses with over 200 IQ, I honestly really can’t bring myself to write them. Characters can only be as smart as the author, so unless I write all other characters as varying degrees of idiotic, it’s impossible for me. Though I guess it can be done, doing...
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    World domination with low-tier powers

    I’m wondering, whether it be world domination or defeating the bbeg, if you guys could take over your verse with the shittiest powers in it. And I don’t mean JP LN “shitty” where they’re only trash on the surface level, I mean they’re actually bad and you need to be creative with them to do...
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    Weapon personalities

    I’m playing with the concept of Ego weapons, basically just weapons with living consciousnesses, though I’m wondering how far I should go with it. Like, should weapons be able to speak and possess complex thoughts? Or should they just have basic feelings which they communicate to their user? Or...
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    Power Ranking

    I'm trying to decide whether I want to leave the power ranking of my story clearly defined with ranks, or more vague and loosely defined with things like novice, average, elite, and the pinnacle with characters being stated to be somewhere within those classifications. And if I do land on...
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    Where to draw the line on the complex powers?

    I'm having a conundrum. I'm not sure where to draw the limits on how strong and how complex I want to be with powers in my story. I feel if I make the powers too simple that aspect of my story will stay generic and forgettable while if I make things too complex things will get too complicated...
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    Should I mention shoddy citations?

    I’ve finally finished up my ridiculously long summer work in the last two weeks of summer (procrastinating is my enemy), and now it’s time to submit it. The problem comes with citations. Since I was rushing like crazy, aside from writing page numbers on the side, I didn’t take citations into...
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    Limiting phone usage

    I have an issue with phone usage I want to fix, I'm on it way too much, to the point that I'm distracted from my summer work. I left it at a cousin's house to focus and it worked, but not having a way to contact me is problem for my family so I can't do it again and I'm getting distracted like I...
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    How do you guys study?

    In the next few weeks I'll be heading into 11th grade and I'll be taking AP US History, my problem is that I don't know how to study, or rather how to study well. I've made it into AP partially because my teacher was on maternity leave so I was doing easier work, and partially because I'm decent...
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    Eye Trade vs Eye Gift

    I’m thinking that one of my main characters loses his eye in a very traumatic battle and he’s given the Eye of his best friend/sister-figure, I’m pondering whether this should just be her giving her eye to him or them exchanging eyes. Originally I wanted them to trade eyes so that they’d be able...
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    Skimming Tips

    You guys got any tips for skimming textbook chapters? I've got 8 chapters/320+ pgs of a history textbook plus corresponding paragraph questions to do for summer work. Since I’m starting a bit late and am a chronic procrastinator I know with absolute certainty I can’t just read it so does anyone...
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    Drifting Friendships

    I’m beginning to wonder what I’m going to about friends in the future. My friends and I are going to drift away at some point, we probably are right now. I used to think it’d be fine since I had a best friend who I definitely wouldn’t drift from, but looking back I didn’t. I’d mistaken my...
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    Have you guys ever burned yourselves out reading?

    You know when you find yourself a good story and spend a few days reading, and after a certain arc or volume you just find yourself burned out with story? You still like it but need a break from reading it for anything else.
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    How do you not completely get your ass kicked?

    I had a dream where I got into a fight with this one douche from school and I got my ass beat in it. To be specific he started biting my hand and I tried to awkwardly get him off it without really doing much of anything. Is there anything I could do so that if I do get my shit kicked irl it...
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    A Poison Brawler

    I’ve been making some character changes in my story and have turned the story’s “original protagonist” (now a side character), a poison swordswoman into a brawler since I already two weapon users in my main cast. I have some ideas on how she’d fight but nothing concrete, so I’d like some...
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    Isekai Transportation

    I’m wondering which Isekai Transportation method is the most popular. And if random Protagonists from each one were to fight who would win.
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    The You of 2013

    I’m curious to know the thoughts of a person regarding themself 10 years ago. Would you like yourself? Would you two be friends? Would you repress any thoughts about yourself in sheer embarrassment? What do you think about yourself in 2013?
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    Fellas...

    Is it gay to start crushing on a girl only to then find out the girl is a guy but you didn’t know he was guy up to that point? Asking for a friend.
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    How should I post my prologue?

    I’ve finished up my first few chapters but after some thinking I realized that the main story really starts after these chapters and they’re more of a prologue but I hadn’t thought of writing a prologue when I first started so I’m not sure how to really to post everything. It’s 4 chapters with...
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    Op mc reincarnates into the future and is no longer op

    You know that trope in Jp novels and manga where the Mc is some overpowered being who is bored and reincarnates into the future where, because of some secret mustache twisting evil organization, the standards of strength have decreased and the Mc is even more op. What if the reverse happens...
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    Weapon question

    So, one of my side characters is an assassin/scout and I'm somewhat confused on a weapon he'd use. I'm thinking about him using a whip sword for now but I wanted to hear some suggestions on other weapons he could use so, please suggest.
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