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    Writing Prompt Fun ways to die

    There was an oil executive named Aubrey McClendon who killed himself by driving his sports car into a brick wall. Nowadays, billionaires don't have the balls to kill themselves in cool ways. They're either buried in a Pharoah-sized mausoleum with their families or cryogenically preserved. Cool...
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    Is "slow life" becoming a trend?

    It's escapism with a hint of "imagine what your life would be with some friends, a kind wife in a small city". But I do like it every so often. Sometimes you get burned out on serious stuff and have to get into the opposite. It's probably why Hiyao Miyazaki seems like such a serious, depressed...
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    The Chicken or the Egg, Which Came First?

    The self-replicating protocell or if you prefer the first self-replicating molecules in the primordial ooze some 3 billion years ago.
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    First Chapter Feedback - Story: The Children of the Divine Limit

    I have fixed the grammar errors. I've never used Grammarly before so that will be a useful tool for re-edits and future chapters. When you say the story doesn't suit your taste, which part do you mean? The genre? The subgenre?
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    First Chapter Feedback - Story: The Children of the Divine Limit

    I have been writing for some time already but I decided to get some feedback on my first chapter which I recently reworked. The important part is whether you would keep reading the story after reading the first chapter and how I could improve the first chapter to make it easier for people to...
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    Free First Chapter Feedback

    I just reworked and added to my first chapter just today: Any feedback would be appreciated. https://www.scribblehub.com/read/286360-the-children-of-the-divine-limit/chapter/286361/
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    I wrote a fight scene and looking for pointers

    Hmm, I see, yeah that should be ok. I'll try that. I should probably edit previous chapters. I think I saw one or two people have double spaces between paragraphs, I'll try it the alternate way. To be fair, I think it would be clearer who thought this or that if with the previous chapter. There...
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    What is one thing you would tell people if you time traveled 100 years to the past?

    Possible things (assuming they would believe me): - The exact date the MLKJr will be killed in order to prevent it. - Making a good painting and attributing it to Hitler so he gets accepted to art school. - Sending how to make nuclear weapons to the USSR so that America doesn't drop the bombs on...
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    I wrote a fight scene and looking for pointers

    The space between paragraphs is a personal readership choice. My theory is that it feels too daunting for new readers to have to tackle large paragraphs to get into reading the story. Could you elaborate on the use of tenses? The pov does shift a lot when describing the fight but only between...
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    Writing AI characters

    AI characters are interesting because any AI advanced enough to be considered a living creature can have every single positive human quality a normal human has. It can be good at pattern recognition. It can have emotional responses (sometimes emotional responses are extremely necessary; for...
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    I wrote a fight scene and looking for pointers

    Hi everyone, I'm a new writer looking for some criticism. I wrote a fight scene between my main character and one of his enemies. Read these two chapters to get the idea: https://www.scribblehub.com/read/286360-the-children-of-the-divine-limit/chapter/299362/...
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    What makes a hatable villain?

    I think that the isms can apply to make someone an evil person. Racism, sexism, classism (hatred against the poorer classes for example). People who pass racist policies aren't just dumb, they're oftentimes master manipulators. Like even though Hitler hated the Jews for a variety of stupid...
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