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I'm going to offer the controversial opinion and say one of the best ways to write a fight scene is not to. Unless a fancy power system or in depth tactical analysis is an essential element of your story, or at least you can use it as a vehicle for character growth, fight scenes are almost...

Who needs fancy things like mouse support or context menus! We write like men! (I've actually never written a complete document in vim, and I keep forgetting how to save and exit, lol)

Title: Nova Omega Author: LiteraryWho (aka, me, lol). Cover/Scene: I can suggest a pretty easy cover, or a pretty hard scene. For the cover, a simple sword, laid flat, glowing blue, with jagged splatters of silver behind it. Otherwise there's this really cool fight scene with a giant...

I suspect there's not a lot of Dickens fans around here, if you catch my meaning.

fun fact, this also reveals the very male leaning demographics of SH

Well, that's real cool of you. I actually have a few stories that could use covers, and I'm not 100% sure which to ask for, but I'll pick the one that I think will be most interesting to draw for (and is already posted on SH). https://www.scribblehub.com/series/515903/nova-omega/ This is a...

This is just a list of LN style titles that would catch my interest as a reader, but which don't entice me at all as a writer. I put them in convenient poll form, so people can get an idea of which one might be popular (also, because it sounded more fun than just posting them). Here are my own...

Thanks for the feedback

"My serious stuff won't be posted under Anon2021" That's what I meant (I already cyber-stalked you and found the smut, obv :blob_wink:). Tbh, not terribly interested in smut, but I suspect your serious stuff will be/is pretty good. edit: but, anyway, like I said, I won't push either way...

Depends on the context, why I'm reading something, and the book's quality. If it's some published work I'm reading for "style" purposes, I'll usually just read a few dozen pages a day until I either get interested, or reach the end. If it's something I'm interested in, I'll binge read until I...

"starting out with a huge epic isn't easy" I would even go so far as to say it is a mistake. Doubly so if you don't even care for epics in the first place :sweat_smile: I just really love world building, and it's hard for me not to go all out, and harder still for me not to try and cram it all...

there is that too, but I'm certain <100K is no where near enough time to do what I was going for. Also, I kind of don't like endless epics that seem averse to ever reaching their conclusion. I'll let it slide for LoTR, but most other writers I loose interest when the page count goes over 500...

Ah, yeah, I get what you're saying then. There's a maximum threshold of complexity that's just unreasonable. I can't say I disagree (even if I still like the idea of writing overly complicated shit, lol) edit: (and that's probably explained by stephen king/the dark tower being one of my...

... I don't get the joke, tbh

mmm, this is some good advice, and I'll definitely have to put Hemingway on my list of "style developing authors" to read. You've also helped me confirm something I suspected about this story, namely, I flew too close to the proverbial sun. There's like, a metric shit ton of things going on in...

urge to shill... rising... <cough> Ah, uh, anyway, to the OP. I think A Comedy of Justice by Heinlein is probably my personal fave, though in terms of "perfection" I think I might have to give it to Ender's Game by Card (and if there's anyone here who hasn't read it, you're missing out).

Thanks for the feedback! Ironically, I would actually consider this a world driven story. I guess my synopsis/structure gives the wrong impression? I mean, I did try to imbue as much "character" into it as I could, but it's definitely more about the things going on in the world (which Hitori...

You're doing great work here. The first chapter is often the most important, and it can be the hardest to get right. I'm interested what you think about mine for Nova.

I'm always looking for different perspectives on my story Nova (especially since there are tricky things I'm going for and it's hard to see if I actually pulled them off). If you're interested, it's an action sci-fi/fantasy story about a mercenary and his team on a planet with monsters and magic.

Thanks for the answers :) It's hard to get different perspectives on one's own writing, so it's nice to hear what other people saw in it. Good luck working on your writing. Sampling different genres is a good idea, though I suggest you mix in a few published books as well, to get a feel for...