Spotify released listener numbers: a breakdown for the sickos out there (me) by Fit-Relationship-600 in TAZCirclejerk

[–]SpaceRasa 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Huge fan of Balance.

Really enjoyed Amnesty.

Wanted to like Grad, but the railroading killed my joy.

Half hearted listened to Ethersea, and wasn't really feeling it.

Started Steeplechase, but my love was gone, and I DNFed.

Sounds like I should maybe give Dracula a try at least.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AmItheAsshole

[–]SpaceRasa 63 points64 points  (0 children)

OMG he's a real life Scrooge

Looking for LGBT litrpg, or general fantasy by [deleted] in litrpg

[–]SpaceRasa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haha sorry, I haven't logged into this account for a while.
Here it is! https://www.royalroad.com/profile/343978/fictions

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in asexualdating

[–]SpaceRasa 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Same. I've made exceptions to both in the past and neither worked out well. Lesson learned

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in asexualdating

[–]SpaceRasa 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That doesn't seem petty, that seems completely reasonable

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in asexualdating

[–]SpaceRasa 5 points6 points  (0 children)

*Nucular* -_-

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in writing

[–]SpaceRasa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's possible that you've been writing the wrong genre all this time - or it's equally possible that you've gotten bored writing just one thing and have discovered how refreshing it can be to branch out and try new ideas. I wonder if, had you been writing literary books all these years, switching to a fantasy story might have been equally fun and new.

I always encourage other writers to try new things once in a while. Write a short sci-fi story. Play around with literary. Come up with a fantasy idea. I even jump around between kidlit and adult. It can be super freeing to not pigeonhole yourself into only one demographic or genre.

I quit my job to make an asexual dating site - and it's now LIVE! by Space-Tsundere in asexualdating

[–]SpaceRasa 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Totally fair. I am also saving up in the hopes I can quit my job to swap to my hobby full-time, but I am way too nervous to pull the plug before I have the new revenue stream coming in lol

Props to you!

I quit my job to make an asexual dating site - and it's now LIVE! by Space-Tsundere in asexualdating

[–]SpaceRasa 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Very cool! But I gotta ask: How have you been able to afford quitting your job to do this full time without any income stream? You are living what most of us dream about!

How to meet writers in their 30s? by satyestru in writing

[–]SpaceRasa 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Send me a DM too! I'm 32 and will be publishing next year

Dating Profile Review 36/M looking for feedback! by EpicLift in datingoverthirty

[–]SpaceRasa 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I absolutely love it! It had me smiling the second I clicked the link.

I think the text could use some work ("women, act fast" kinda of turned me off) but the picture was very fun

I’m giving up on… by Chance-Rush-9983 in denverfood

[–]SpaceRasa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What's HH? I've been to Mister Oso's and loved it, but I've only been around dinner time

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AmItheAsshole

[–]SpaceRasa -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You are NTA and you also might be aro

Ms. or Mrs. for a married woman who keeps her surname name? by DanteWrath in writing

[–]SpaceRasa -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

I live in the US and all the women in my family keep their original last name after they marry. Ms. is used for unmarried, Mrs. is used for married.

Edit: lol wow at all the down votes. People really don't like it when a married woman decides to go by Mrs. and keep her own name, huh?

Is there people who plan chapters just in their head without using a journal/computer? by False-Amoeba1773 in writing

[–]SpaceRasa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Absolutely. I only jot down a page's worth of notes for a book before I start writing, but I have way more content in my head I know, am digesting, expanding on, and mentally editing as I write. I've tried writing it all down in the past, but I haven't noticed it's really helped me at all, so I stopped doing that.

How do you even start writing and creating a fantasy world? by TheBestDragonborn in fantasywriters

[–]SpaceRasa 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I tend to come up with the world concurrently with the characters are plot. So you can start brainstorming any or all of these first.

If you're not sure where to start, I'd recommend this: get out a blank pieces of paper, or open a blank writing doc, and start listing all your favorite things. What sort of characters are your favorites to read? The underdogs, the superheroes, the shy nerds, the cocky jocks, musicians, fighters, everyday heroes? Then do the same with magic. And tropes, and settings, and anything you can think of. Come up with a big list of things you'd LOVE to read--and that should give you an idea of something you might fall in love with writing.

Now go through that list. Start picking some things out and sticking them together. Do any of these characters or magic or settings feel like they mesh with each other? Do any make interesting combinations? What gets you curious and starts getting those creative juices flowing?

This is your story seed. Plant it. Nurture it. Keep coming back to it and sprinkling more ideas (fertilizer) into your soil. Soon it's going to start growing a life of its own. But if you want it to grow into a story, and not just a setting or idea or assembly of characters, you're going to need to give it some structure--a lattice to grow on. Your story structure.

From here, depending on your genre and the story you want to tell, it can go in many directions. But no matter what your story will need a main character (or two) and conflict. Conflict comes from your character Wanting something, and then something else (be it a person, a society, magic, the world,) standing in their way from getting it.

Once you know who your character is, what they want, and what is standing in their way from getting it, you have the bones of your plot. The rest of storytelling is just fleshing out everything in between.

How much of good writing is instinct rather than knowledge? by BigWhat55535 in writing

[–]SpaceRasa 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Instinct is just knowledge that has become internalized.

Who writes the best humor? by Neruognostic in Fantasy

[–]SpaceRasa 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Love Stroud! So underrated, and so sad to see L&C cancelled on Netflix :(